d’Arry’s: Excellent Food and ServiceLunch today at d’Arry’s (King Street). As usual, the service was excellent and the food superb. Easily the best value for money place in Cambridge in my opinion. Staff are always fantastic- even in busy times. Only gripe being mint in the potatoes – why not actually tell people that ? […]
Spent today relaxing, got bored and decided to go shopping. Given I’ve been eating restaurant food for the past 3 weeks I decided to try and find a supermarket to grab some basic food and not have to eat it at a table where someone was serving me (eat at my own pace). Low and […]
I get this newspaper posted through the door every week. I guess I have very little connection with the ‘real’ Cambridge, so I do make attempt to have a quick scan through it every week (largely for stupid stories). Of course like any weekly newspaper it contains lots of random nonsense: * Front cover: person […]
So it’s a Bank Holiday here in the UK. Traditionally I guess that implied that everything (including Banks) were closed. However, with the usual times I guess we are used to things being open. Woke up this morning, decided to head into Cambridge to run some errands. Checked John Lewis’ website and it indicated they […]
Unlike most places I’ve been to, where a market is something that is mobile and comes for the day, Cambridge has a market that is permanent (no, not a shop, a permanent market stall). Now you’d think that would result in things looking fairly nice in line with the overall (supposed) character of Cambridge City […]
Woke up at 5AM this morning and ended up on a call with a US colleague for over an hour – good start to the day to get things cleared up. Spent the whole morning in PowerPoint and Outlook. I’m thinking of starting to write presentations on the Mac just for novelty value. London Abound […]
.. on the the booked train to Newcastle. Of course I hadn’t figured that my morning would be plagued with mishaps (some good and some bad). Day wasn’t off to a good start when I realised I didn’t have any cash to pay for the taxi to the train station. However, that problem was solved […]
You may recall the last posting on broken machines here. Well, one week later (okay 6 days and 21 hours) this is an up to date picture of said machine… I really would like to think it hasn’t been broken for the whole week. Then again, it is Easter School holidays and it wouldn’t at […]
Cambridge Railway Station Cambridge Railway Station is one of my serious stresses when it comes to living in Cambridge. Actually, it was my first impression of Cambridge years ago when I arrived here for a job interview. Coming from a proper city, I was amazed at how small it was. In all fairness, over the […]
Cambridge Supermarkets Another stress of living in Cambridge is the excuse for supermarkets. You’d think in the South East of England there would be fairly good logistics systems in place, but alas no. If you ever watch one of these ‘doom and gloom’ shows (like Survivors) which depict when society has some major epidemic, strike […]