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Congratulations to Boni for being recognised by the Queen and The Establishment, Former News journalist Boni Sones, 54, of Fair Street, Cambridge, is made an OBE for services to broadcasting and public relations. Ms Sones, who helped set up BBC News 24, said: “I am absolutely thrilled and tearful. There haven’t been many journalists who […]
Today I was invited out on a walk by Caroline & Ray. We caught the train to Meldreth and then did the 18+mile walk back to Cambridge via Wimpole, Kingston, Hardwick and Coton. Interestingly this is the first time I have ever walked back to Cambridge in the past I’ve always walked away and then […]
Sally has been going on and on about seeing the swan feeding at the Welney Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust 🙂 So today was the chosen, freezing cold,day, we picked up Ellee, in the midst of writing her secret book, and drove out to the hides. After getting over the shock of paying over £11 for […]
After yesterdays gluttony we just had to have a semi decent walk today, for some reason I wanted to walk to Grantchester, in hindsight because I had seen the signs for the annual barrel rolling in Grantchester last week!. However, I had completely forgotten about that when we set off! I was also wanting to […]
Here is the lovely smiling Sally during 2008 , from having her fortune read at Caroline’s New Years Eve party to our latest walk last weekend. From Sally in 2008 Or you can look at all the pictures here Quite fascinating to see all the activities we do together, walking, skiing & swimming + 🙂 […]
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914) A very apt quotation especially after hearing Wodehouse mentioned in a BBC radio programme yesterday, where he was being […]
Today was the shortest day and we celebrated it in gorgeous sunshine with a walk by the Cambridge Rambling Club A team, ably led by Larry & Margaret . A decent turn out of 14 hikers did the over 14 mile circular walk from Balsham via Brinkley. Cambridge Ramblers – Balsham WAlk Widget powered by […]
Another site for checking the predicted monetary value of your website over at WebValuer. Here are the results for GeoffJones:- Cool to see I’ve had the site for over 10 years now and interesting to see there seems to be a slight upward trend in visitors. At $7.74 a day I’m not going to get […]
Em spotted the likeness between these photos. What do you think?
Oh dear my 3G IPhone is starting to crack up:- The crack is about 12mm (1/2″ long) starting from the 3.5mm headphone connector. I have an appointment to see a Genius in the Cambridge Apple store in a short while…. Powered by ScribeFire. Update: Apple replaced the phone FOC – Excellent service from the Cambridge […]