Once everything Christmas has been packed away for another year, and along with it all the fun and frivolity of the festive season, the lights have been taken down from the outside of the house (probably to the utter joy of the neighbours as I think the switch got rain in it, and they quite […]
Exploring The Fitzwilliam Museum- Cambridge
The Fitzwilliam was the first Cambridge Institution we visited as prospective new temporary residents back on that cold Autumn day a little over a year ago. Fresh off the plane from Munich, and anxiously awaiting the call to tell us whether we had been successful in our bid for our current rented home, we headed […]
Sunday Photo – English Winter Sun
It’s lightly snowing as I type, concluding a week that’s featured a lot of weird wintry weather – including a visit from Storm Fionn that brought a few trees down in this little village. It’s been easy to imagine that the sun has forgotten the East of England recently, so when it did make a […]
Foodcycling
If I am completely honest with you, I haven’t made that much of an effort to make friends here locally. It comes with a certain ex-expat weariness that transient friend making brings – mostly because I know that we are not staying in Cambridge for much longer. Plus, there’s always the slightly lazy certainty that […]
Sunday Photo – Cambridge Doors
Cambridge Doors – Queen’s College… I think this photograph pretty much sums up the general colours of Cambridge this past week. The sun seems to have forgotten about this part of the UK, and the only glow we get from any kind of light is artificial right now. A quiet past week, a first back […]