punting on the cam
So we are in Cambridge! It didn’t help that we got here at the end of the week that started, for me, in Vegas; so what with the implausible Northern twilight and the pretty pretty greens and colleges...
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It never takes longer than a few minutes, whenever they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That’s what a family is. Also the storm at...
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The flat we’re in is very nice, and one block from a gorgeous playground, and two blocks from the river and Jesus Green. Inside the flat every room has a heavy fire door designed to close. The rental...
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My sense of humour has returned! The peanut gallery cries: How can you tell? It is raining in Cambridge which is far more appropriate, pathetic fallacy-wise, because I can stomp through puddles and...
View Articlea distant echo
(Go give money to Burma and China. And then when you have compassion fatigue, come point and laugh at the non-disabled white girl who wants a pony.) England confuses me. There are all these...
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We went out onto Coe Fen, which is quite the loveliest part of Cambridge we’ve found so far, all birdsong and head-high wildflowers and fragrance. I ambled on as Claire and Julia, exploring in the...
View Articlecambridge life
On the grounds that if I don’t write this all down, I will probably forget it. Also you are interested in my tiny life! Yes you are. Our place here is schweet. It’s one of six flats in a newish...
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View Articlegoodbye river, goodbye ducks
Packed, had coffee at my favourite cafe, walked through Cambridge where these guys were busking; had to stop, arrested by the utter beauty of their singing. Walked to the playground in Jesus Green,...
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The children were perfectly behaved on the flight home; Julia slept on my lap for four hours. The house is much smaller than I remembered. The cat is frenetically overjoyed to see us. Jetlag’s a little...
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Cambridge already seems like a dream. The only proofs that we were ever there are my new bras from Marks and Spencers. They are excellent, and improve my posture. So well do they lift and separate that...
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It’s been filthy stinking hot in California for a couple of days but tonight the weather has changed; I can smell the rain coming in on a cool wind through the wide-open bay windows. The children are...
View Articleembarrassing to admit i finally understand that awful brooke poem
I miss Cambridge. My commitment to contrariness is the stuff of legend. I particularly miss Grantchester, which is a fairly obvious sublimation of the extent to which I have always missed Grant and...
View Articleor in my accent, thyme and spice
My former arch-nemesis having retired the field, I have decided that my new arch-nemeses – plural – are Time and Space. Many factors influenced this choice, including but not limited to: my...
View Articlelondon defies expectations!
I was fairly miserable about coming to London so I made myself arrange various social commitments so I wouldn’t just sit in my hotel room and sulk. So far this has worked beyond all expectations....
View Articleuntil you’re resting here with me
I blog drunkenly yet again (alcohol like water in these islands): I had a completely unexpected and undeserved reward tonight for getting off my ass and going out instead of sitting in my hotel room...
View Articlesundays have been good to me lately
Brunch at my lovely Mission Beach Cafe with Peter the Rocket Scientist, discussing Lee Smolin’s book The Trouble With Physics. Off to Dolores Park to see an all-women, feminist production of The Taming...
View Articleremembrance
They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to the foe. They...
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