Miscellaneous Musings

When I first came to Cambridge about 50 years ago, there were far more bookshops than now. The biggest was Heffers with several shops scat...

The Westgate Canterbury is the oldest city gate intact in the country and dates back to 1379. Very impressive. It’s the last surviving gat...

This "photo" is probably about 160 years old. It is on a hand tinted metal plate found when clearing my mother's house when ...

Thankfully, we get few serious earthquakes in the UK. Big ones are rare. The website below keeps records of those that have occurred recentl...

In recent years we seem to have seen an increase in rough sleepers on the streets of Cambridge. For a fact, some are "on the make"...

At one time I would have been appalled by the overuse of "like" and the fact that younger people tend to go up at the end of sent...

Since 2012 my wife has made a kitchen poster summarising the previous year. It is surprising how the grandchildren change.