Posted in out and about, tagged Cambridge, dragon, objectives, politics, propinquity, public speaking, year on 31/12/2014|
Reflecting on the year as it draws to a close: that’s a thing, isn’t it? Much has happened during the past year, much of which I have no intention of discussing right now. However, I’ve remembered that I set myself some goals for the year, and so now would be a good time for reviewing them.
The goals were: to meet Puffles the Dragon Fairy; to use the word “propinquity” more often; and to do some public speaking.
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Posted in out and about, tagged Cambridge, culture, politics on 22/09/2014| 1 Comment »
Saturday afternoon of last weekend, I went to Anglia Ruskin on East Road for Cambridge Conversation Café, the inaugural event of Be The Change Cambridge. This is my write-up of the event. Or rather, it’s more a write-up of my experience of the event. If you want something more objective you might want to try Michelle Brook’s account.
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Posted in out and about, tagged Americans, coffee, fish, government, Iain Sinclair, Kew, King's Cross, London, memory, music, place, politics, psychogeography, pub, Soho, spook, Thames, walking on 25/01/2014| 2 Comments »
One Saturday last November, Mr H. and I went to London to go for a walk. G. came down too, to visit Kew Gardens with a friend, so it was convenient for our walk to start off in Kew.
Before I really get started, I possibly ought to mention that, whilst I’m generally interested in the concept of genre, I’m still rather finding my feet when it comes to the genre conventions of blogging. This is my attempt at a touristy “trip report” style of post, with lots of photos. G. thinks that about ten photos would be a sensible limit, but it was quite a long walk, so I’m going to exceed that. I’ll try to have a fair bit of prose mixed in there too.
Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes. Kew.
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