Geoff Jones

It was 34 years ago today…

Posted on February 23, 2009March 8, 2017

Happy birthday to Nick my first child 🙂

Here he is on his first day in Mill Road maternity hospital at 4am or so.

and now he is father to my two grandchildren, Isla & Liam 🙂

Cambridge Rambling Club – Audley End ramble

Posted on February 22, 2009June 13, 2015

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.

Audley End to Langley walk

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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

Cambridge -UK – Open Coffee

Posted on February 19, 2009May 28, 2019

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.