The Aldreth Causeway was the path by which William the Conquerer was able to invade the Isle of Ely and eventually defeat the forces of Hereward the Wake.  For me, it is a nice fen trail that gets me between Haddenham and Wililngham fairly quickly on my long runs and with a minimum amount of [...]

Here is another article from my local paper, with some links to national news. Best line: “I assure you the problem of throwing fruit is no joke.” Father arrested for carrying out citizen’s arrest on yobs ‘who threw apples at him and his wife’ (Mail) Dad on rap for defying louts’ gang (Mirror) Seriously, though, [...]

Here’s an article wherein a couple receive suspended sentences for growing 83 marijuana plants because they are heavy users and the judge found it plausible that this was meant for personal use. Cannabis growers with £26k stash spared jail First consider that the plants were valued at £26000, total…that’s a little less than $500 US.  [...]

The students, if they can call themselves such after this, at Anglia Ruskin University have converted their student union bar into a gymnasium…another sign that something is seriously wrong with the youth of today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8269157.stm

My sleepy little village is all over the news, lately.  Primarily, we have been watched because of the just ended trial, conviction, and sentencing of a mom that stabbed her two teenage daughters to death here two years ago: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/22/rekha-kumari-baker-trial-mum-stabbed-her-daughters-to-death-in-revenge-attack-on-men-115875-21691470/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/8268632.stm Then, just last Sunday morning an 81-year-old childrens book author (who has sold more [...]

This post will be updated periodically, and I think I’ll just give it a new publish date to stick it on top when it is updated. Chippenham: Fordham: Isleham (didn’t think to ask if it is “Eye-El-Ham” or “Izzel-hum”): Updates from Bar Hill – Cavendish Labs run on 15 May 2009): The American Cemetary near [...]

About halfway between Stretham and Waterbeach, there’s this pub/lodge/restaurant called the Travellers Rest. I had planned, with some Ordnance Maps, to run from there along some fen trails back to the house after work yesterday but left the map and got turned around at the intersection of some farm roads and wound up trapped by [...]

Waterbeach continues to surprise me. About 7/8 of the way through this article on the lack of St George Day celebrations I spotted this line: “The village’s Beach Social Club will host its second annual sausage competition….” I got no indication that Waterbeach was at all that way the last few visits, not that there’s [...]

I’m entirely in favour of community volunteer service but this article would be easier to take seriously if it had less in common with Tom Sawyer tricking the other kids into whitewashing a fence (“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a [...]

I saw this article a few months ago, but forgot about it until I was heading down the A-10 to Waterbeach, yesterday.  Again, I like the small town atmosphere here, but this story is really adorable.