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Hunting Pingo’s in Norfolk
Today 10 of us set out, ably led by Ron & Margaret, on the Cambridge Rambling Club’s A team walk. It was a 40 mile trip from Cambridge to the start in Hockham Picnic site car park. We were out to spot Pingo’s although according to Wikipedia they are actually collapsed Pingo’s although personally I…
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Walking childhood memories around Creswell Crags
This weeks walk was a visit to my childhood adventure playground of The Welbeck and Clumber estates. After school in the 50’s when I was probably 8+, Stan and I would take off on our rickety bikes and charge around these grand country estates to be chased by gamekeepers and angry young lovers who we…
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Braughing Circular walk
Another excellent walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club, Carolin led 13 of us on a circular 15mile jaunt through the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside, past splendid 16th century houses and brand new mansions! A little bit hilly for Cambridge folk but on such a gorgeous warm spring day delightful. Here are the photo’s and route on…
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Blogging & Independence
Dave Winer nails blogging “One of the reasons I’m proud of it is that blogging was created without the lock-in you see in systems like Twitter, Facebook and though they’ll argue for sure, Buzz. Even Posterous, Tumblr and WordPress.com don’t give you easy ways off their servers. Blogging started without the concept of a single…
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A walk along The Cam
Today the Cambridge Rambling Club’s A team were having an away weekend, Neither Sally or I fancied a 10mile walk with the B team – mainly because of the agonising long lunchbreaks 🙂 So we made a quick ramble to Ely on the Fen Rivers Way our walk of the day! It was 16 miles…
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My best investment ever!
In the big clear out prior to my move. The guy from Willingham Auctions got quite excited about taking this away:- As you can see my vintage Davidsons Hexagonal Postcard Stand made £240 & what did I pay it for it? The answer is a big zero, I found it discarded with a load of…
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Circular walk Haverhill and Kedlington
Today the Cambridge Rambling Club A team were out in force! 17 of us left Haverhill Sports centre to do a 15mile circular walk in brilliant sunshine but cold conditions. The hughlight was a visit to the church of St Peter and St Paul at Kedlington (No wikipedia entry) which still boasts all the original…
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Medieval Cambridge with BT #fail
I find this so hard to believe in 2010:- “Thank you for your email dated 09/02/09 in regards to the broadband speed at your new property.The initial test on your phone line you should be able to support a maximum broadband download speed of around 512 kbps. The actual speed you get could be lower…
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Valentines day walk
Today’s walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club’s ‘A’ Team led by Jill started at Royston then the delightful village of Reed with lunch by The Woodman Inn at Nuthamstead.We covered 15.5miles (compared to the 10miles with the B team last week in the same time!). Making for a very pleasurable start to Valentines day l…
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Bringing up the rear
Today’s walk was a very modest 10 miler with the B team of Cambridge Rambling Club. 22 of us departed from The Green Man PH , allegedly in Shepreth but actually just outside Melbourn. We had two outstanding bloggers Ellee & Sally with us as well 🙂 I was designated the back marker, which was…