we 5 Dec 2018 |
As we were leaving Cambridge by the A1030 and in fading light Sunday evening it was dark enough for us to see that the cycle path next to the road had its own small white cat's eyes marking the edges of the track ... good idea eh? |
mo 3 Dec 2018 |
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tu 20 Nov 2018 |
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fr 2 Nov 2018 |
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tu 16 Oct 2018 |
In historic Stamford charity shop DVDs are typically 99p ... a lesson for us all eh? |
th 7 Jun 2018 |
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mo 4 Jun 2018 |
Graduation yesterday in Framingham ... no, Framingham. |
fr 5 Jan 2018 |
Come to that the inside lane of the southbound A12 around Colchester is pretty bad too. |
su 31 Dec 2017 |
The northbound carriageway of A12 we think north of Colchester has some worryingly large potholes ... more long than round holes ... cracks that have got ideas above their station. |
tu 19 Sep 2017 |
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fr 9 Dec 2016 |
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we 13 Apr 2016 |
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sa 3 Oct 2015 |
The Sunday before last we went to Colchester to see a cyclocross. There were no water crossings, a motorsport type starting grid, perhaps no more than four dismounts and the course was sufficiently flat and dry there were several trains running early on but there were also six different races to cover all classes and BOGOF filled rolls because of overly optimistic catering. |
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The first Sunday in May is International Dawn Chorus Day, no events in Suffolk but one in the rather pleasant Sussex village Steyning, pronounced Stenning by blow ins and Staining by non-blow ins. |
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mo 15 Dec 2014 |
Last week we stopped for petrol at a Shell garage on the A3 near
Liphook. Two |
th 11 Dec 2014 |
We've now been through the Dartford Crossing both ways, travelling south the road now swerves round what was the tollbooths and Tuesday there was no tailback but perhaps the traffic was lighter because of a M25 closure further back. Returning yesterday north bound there was a tailback because traffic still goes through the automatic barriers though the booths have gone. |
mo 1 Dec 2014 |
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su 26 Oct 2014 |
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mo 11 Nov 2013 ![]() |
Just off the A12 by the B1389 junction
near
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th 31 Oct 2013 ![]() |
The last surviving aborigine world war II combatant in the state of Victoria Australia Bill Edwards died earlier this month, he was buried in the Framlingham Australia cemetery near where he grew up. In Framlingham Suffolk this weekend the White Horse is having the first of regular table top sales. |
tu 6 Aug 2013 |
Not unreasonable to assume road works imminent on the A12 just south of Witham at the B1389 junction as multiple average speed cameras have appeared. |
we 26 Jun 2013 |
♫Not surprisingly
Gretchen Peters was pitch perfect last night in |
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♫Greg
Butler is really committed to analogue.
For his Cambridge 105 radio show
yesterday he humped in and out a load of |
mo 10 Dec 2012 E1 time trial |
There's a bit of what was the A11 north of Bishop's Stortford that for competitive cyclists is the E1 time trial course. As a teenager we raced it's neither sporting nor drag strip rolling route through Essex and Cambridgeshire. Maybe 25 years later we returned to spectate our nephew compete in the national junior (under 18) 25 mile championship. Time may have gilded the memory but we recall he came something like eighth in a time that would have put him in the adult elite twenty years earlier. On our spectators' side of the road the verge was wide enough to have bushes and teensy trees amongst which a tramp lived. He'd decorated his camp with small chipped plaster figures of dogs. The tramp appeared, his face was heavily streaked with dirt and he was pushing a wheelbarrow with a small dog in it. We said Good Morning and he flashed an enormous smile made more gleaming by the contrast with his filthy face, presumably passers by mostly pretended he didn't exist. Maybe we should all try to acknowledge estate agents, town councillors, management consultants and the like because after all they are our fellows ... sort of. |
mo 13 Feb 2012 |
Like cycle speedway (we saw it for the first time in Norwich just a few years back) it's taken us a lifetime to get round to seeing cycle polo and then it was in Cambridge and we couldn't give it much attention. In cycle polo you have to make a penalty dash if you put your foot down so surprising that single freewheel is favoured these days rather than fixed, apparently it makes a long stretch easier. |
sa 11 Feb 2012 |
In the way of the working man (remember bendy toys on the front of dustcarts?) a warehouse in Sackers scrap yard Great Blakenham has been decorated with metal pub signs. They're all that once good brewer Greene King (including a rather gay Green Man but with a big stick), except the Yeldham Stone & Faggot which we think must be Little Yeldham over the border west of Sudbury. |
we 1 Feb 2012 |
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sa 14 Jan 2012 |
♫ With a sound like a charging rhinoceros bass guitarist Jack Bruce is going out on the road again including the Cambridge Corn Exchange in March. In his BIG blues band is trombonist Winston Rollins ... who looks to us suspiciously like Dennis Rollins. |
mo 17 Oct 2011 |
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we 17 Aug 2011 |
Last
Sunday the 10th annual Goodwood
roller marathon had an incredibly mixed
1000+ field |
we 6 Apr 2011 |
A camera found in Orford possibly belonging to a teacher with connections to Singapore and Norfolk. |
fr 4 Mar 2011 |
The coalition?
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su 2 Jan 2011 |
We think William should dump Kate Middleclass (his dad did it for christ's sake and he was married at the time) and wait for Karen from Outnumbered ... she's played Princess Margaret in The King's Speech so she's forewarned and it would mean a really sensible consort for the monarch later on this century ... who's with us? |
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