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To the city fireworks. Park in Mount Pleasant House and walk with the children to the river, when James and Emma and James and Amy are having a party. Arrive in time for the mulled wine to just run...
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Halloween. I went as the Spirit of the Night though Patrick thought I was Ash Man. It came off, fortunately. Sunday was wet, so over the new bridge to the Museum of Technology which is a rather odd place,...
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By way of a contrast, here is something I like: home-made bread. Also an index of how relaxed I feel. I've come to like the "make lots of rolls and let them rise into each other" style....
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Flipping through a book of Magritte at luchtime after our race (10:08; (see the full results for context; yes I know you don't care this is for my records) which is quite passable for a crew with several near-novices...
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Sarah (whose blog is rather emptier than James' so-called EB) is walking from Cambridge to the Sea to celebreate her age; and she invited company; so I joined her for stretch today from Ely to Littleport. It was a...
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Summer is the time when middle-aged parents scrabble around trying to patch together work and school holidays. We've been to Wales and the Lakes. I could make some not-very-interesting comments about rain; but apart from saving us the trouble of...
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I've been a little weighed down with various activities recently. So anyone keenly awaiting the next round of me-vs-Romm-vs-Pielke will just have to wait. Meanwhile, in-joke of the day....
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Stretham Old Engine is a former pumping engine out in the fens; visiting it is not too dissimilar to the Museum of fenland drainage that James visited a while back. You can see it from above and you can...
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Anyone who was anyone (and some who aren't :-) went to the great Cam clean up. Unlike James, I didn't bother turn up for the speeches. This may have been a mistake, as not only did I not get on...
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I would have thought that saying the Israeli state was racist was just the bleedin' obvious; but apparently it is controversial. Odd. Maybe the "totally" was OTT. I suppose having the Iranians saying it must be irritating. So what was...
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