Cambridge snow: car scraping fun!

Door

G. David and Son bookstore, Cambridge.

St Edmund's passage on the weekend

Published!

Weekend in Norwich and the Broads

The Red Lion, Norwich: possibly the most English of English riverside pubs we've seen.

Canoeing on the Broads outside Roxton.

Mid-canoeing lunch (before the food arrived).

Saffron Walden (again)

A basement full of chairs at Reeds Antiques.

Vicar's car, Saffron Walden

We took a day off on Monday and ran out to Saffron Walden again. A lovely day, but road closures on the A14 made getting back a bit of a trial as diverted traffic backed up onto the B roads ...

Kourion, Cyrpus

Once again, the view over Episkopi Bay was one of the highlights of the holiday.

Amsterdam

A surprisingly classy hotel room for the conference on Wednesday (my unmade bed notwithstanding). Shame there was no time to see the city.

Cyprus holiday

View from Kourion's annexe of Eusolios looking over Episkopi bay.

Neighbourhood

The sculptor's/jeweller's studio around the corner from us.

Spring flowers

The profusion of flowers everywhere is one of the joys of Spring in Cambridge. That and daylight until 10 pm, which I can never quite get used to after the depths of winter ...

Our car

I've not owned a car since leaving Melbourne in 2003. We bought this just a few weeks ago (click for a bigger image), I've only posted a picture of something so dull as a friend has requested it. Nonetheless, we love it: it has the biggest interior of a small car I've ever seen - the three back bucket seats can fold down in two separate ways or lift out entirely!

Bilbao

A very pleasant weekend away ...

A great conference venue

Onati, Spain (outside Bilbao).

Dinner last night

Cycles vs Punts

A photo from Saturday of a common summer sight: dragging punts over the rollers and cycle path at the Mill Pond lock to get from the Backs heading upstream to Grantchester.

Saffron Waldon

The brick-paved turf maze at Saffron Waldon common yesterday, on a balmy afternoon ...

The Granta

The punt station outside our local, the Granta.

Rug

About two years ago we both started new jobs. We still had quite a few debts, but with a surprisingly large slice of our combined first pay packet we bought this rug.

It was a good investment.

Community

One of the things I like about our neighbourhood is this impromptu noticeboard on the street outside our flat. It's a section of fence that's been in use this way as long as we've been here.

It provides some insight into a family neighbourhood in a university town: children's furniture, yoga, public lectures, home reading groups, private language tuition.

An action figure we can believe in!

So, anytime one of goes away, the other has to get them a bad present from the airport. On my trip to DC in April I picked up a little presidential fun. He lives on top of our coffee-maker, along with the egg-shells ...