Geoff having Swedish Massage
What better after an invigorating walk than a relaxing Swedish Massage in the comfort of your own home, here in Cambridge, so many thanks to Sally for mine tonight. If you want to book a Swedish or Indian Head Massage then head over to Sally’s webpage and give her a call – she is in Cambridge most weekends.
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Clubs ‘A’ team walk was led by Rita. Nine of us set off from Waterbeach village green heading for Anglesey abbey via Lode. At last its warming up and the ground is drying out with a few buds beginning to form on the hedgerows.
Vast hordes of people had descended on Anglesey Abbey ostensibly to visit the snowdrops but seemingly to gorge themselves in the vast canteen whose smells reminded me of school lunches and form queues at the toilets. Its truly amazing how the National Trust has turned itself into a mini shopping mall, easy to imagine a Tesco Express arriving on the site sometime soon. Apparently in 2008 it had 191,549 visitors!
Here’s todays walk, flat as a pancake but a good day out.
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A lovely bit of local history detail that Alan Brigham dug up from Mike Petty after Alan visited my flickr set of Old Cambridge postcards. (The Boer war ended in 1902)
Its such a great pity that all the newspapers archives are not online and fully indexed as Google offered to do for free.
Many thanks also to Charles Challess of Tenison Avenue for his letter to the editor, now published for all the world to see.
I’m sure Alan will be incorporating Tenison Road into one of his local walks on local history in the near future.
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Today’s ramble with the Cambridge Rambling Club A team started further afield 
The start was at Audley End, Vera led 13 of us, at a cracking pace, across the rolling Essex countryside to The Langleys were we stopped for our sandwiches outside the The Bull. Tea was taken alongside the stream in the very pretty village of Arkesdon.
The countryside was still very wintry & bleak looking with only an occasional burst of snowdrops to brighten the day a little.
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We did just over 16miles in 5hr 11min of moving time with 1hr 35min of stops. Surprisingly for us flat landers we did 0ver 1900ft of ascent!
Graph of elevation and speed, from HoudahGeo
Walk elevation & speed
Jed at OpenCoffee
Just back from the inaugural OpenCoffee meet up in Cambridge, UK. Organised by Jed. The event was in Cafe Nero on Kings Parade in Cambridge. A total of about 20 folks (Only two from the fairer sex, Juliette and ? Laura where did you get too!) turned up. I was, of cause, easily the oldest there!
It was a good turn out of VC’s, Angels and entrepreneurs with a lot of new faces to prove that the Cambridge scene is still as vibrant as ever. I met Chris from audioanalytic, Adriano? of Hotprints, Peter from Broadersheet plus Laurence & Alex.
Pretty ideal for a first event and actually worked very well in the regular coffee shop environment (apart from getting told to sit down once by the baristas). I quite like the slightly anarchic nature of the event compared to the regular structured evenings that are the norm around here, and it works better than in a pub type environment in my opinion. I can see why the coffee places were so popular in the 1700s
Will be interesting to see where it goes from here. Apparently there is another newish event, CamCreative next week at The Arts so will go and compare and contrast.
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After my hectic night with Sally (see her posts here and here) plus stopping to take a snapshot of one of the three police cars wrecked on Regent Street we didn’t make it back home till 1am ish.
Mud, Mud glorious mud
Then today was up and away to be at Cambridge Rambling Clubs ‘A’ walk led by Carolyn with a 9am start from Hardwick across the total overkill of the blue footbridge over the A428 followed by many many muddy fields to Elsworth for a drink at the George & Dragon run by the aptly named Mr & Mrs Beer.
Here is the walk with some great shots of muddy boots:-
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Cambridge Evening News
Congratulations to Boni for being recognised by the Queen and The Establishment,
Former News journalist Boni Sones, 54, of Fair Street, Cambridge,
is made an OBE for services to broadcasting and public relations.
Ms Sones, who helped set up BBC News 24, said: “I am absolutely thrilled
and tearful. There haven’t been many journalists who have been honoured by the
Queen. I am a hard-bitten journalist but this is very emotional.”
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Today I was invited out on a walk by Caroline & Ray. We caught the train to Meldreth and then did the 18+mile walk back to Cambridge via Wimpole, Kingston, Hardwick and Coton. Interestingly this is the first time I have ever walked back to Cambridge in the past I’ve always walked away and then returned on the train. For today’s walk this had the huge advantage of having the sun behind us all day. Whereas on my last walk with Sally the sun was in our eyes for most the day, very uncomfortable at this time of the year when the sun is at such a low angle in the sky.
However, due to our speed of travel and stops at a couple of pubs we ended up walking from Coton in the dark – lovely clear skies and a very bright moon and Venus – but hazardous with the cyclists.
Here’s the walk with photographs.
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and here is the elevation and speed profile:-
Elevation (blue) and speed (green) profile Meldreth to Cambridge
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Today was the shortest day and we celebrated it in gorgeous sunshine with a walk by the Cambridge Rambling Club A team, ably led by Larry & Margaret . A decent turn out of 14 hikers did the over 14 mile circular walk from Balsham via Brinkley.
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A surprising hilly walk with a total climb of 1700ft in the day! across quite a few freshly ploughed fields. The walk was enhanced with mulled wine and minced pies
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Elevation and speed against distance walked
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Here is the window dressing, last Saturday, at the main Boots store in Cambridge, Have you ever seen such a mess? Reminded me of Woolworths before they gave up the ghost, their old store is now a Next.
I wonder what the Boots will become? Maybe Mr Tesco should take it on -given how busy the Sydney Street Sainsbury is.
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