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Monthly Archives: October 2026
Thursday, 8th October (Cambridge)
The ‘Seventy Up’ programme I mention below that we watched recently reminded me that the participants in the series are my exact contemporaries. This is a photo of me aged seven grinning out from the brick setting of the asbestos-lined … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 6th October (Cambridge)
Not a great photo but one which brings back memories which were prompted by the Simon Borg piece on Iraq below: our house and car in Baghdad, where we spent a hugely rewarding year from September 1989, our posting curtailed … Continue reading
Thursday, 1st October (Cambridge)
Also fifty years ago, at much the same time as my first visit to The Queen’s Head, we were soundly thrashed on ‘University Challenge’ by the University of Hull – who’d been practising their buzzer technique and, unlike any of … Continue reading
Tuesday, 29th September (Cambridge)
The closest thing we have to ‘a local’, The Queen’s Head in Newton, which we visited at the weekend, and which I first visited fifty years ago when the landlord was the grandfather of the current landlord. The Adnams bitter … Continue reading
