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 [...]

There aren’t a lot of things I miss about the US…I think it boils down to food, for the most part.  There’s not much that compares to sloppy barbecue pork shoulder sandwiches slathered in hot sauce and eaten in 90 degree heat and 95% humidity while waving a cold beer around your head to fend [...]

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.  [...]

This month was very good for the progress of the Run Across Britain, if not for the shear number of new miles logged then for the psychological boost brought on by piercing the membranes of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Hertfordshire thus expanding this at least to more than just a Run Across Cambridgeshire {this is [...]

The weather has been absolutely gorgeous except for the times when it has been completely shit.  Above, there was a nice day in the village, so I shot the house (above) on my way to catch the bus to work. Then, I noticed that the neighbourhood kids must have been bored the night before, having [...]

I spotted this plant along the River Ouse: At first I reckoned this to be where they publish the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport, a newspaper that prints a “nipple count” on the cover so that you might make an informed news purchase and that brags that they have more nude women than either [...]

To get to work today, I left the house at 6 am and ran from Stretham to the Newmarket Rd/East Rd roundabout in Cambridge.  It rained last night so the trail was especially damp but the morning was beautiful.  I can see this becoming a regular method of commuting into work as long as the [...]

Having mentioned the run in the post on Chequers in Sutton, I should probably include a post about this nice little trail. I rode my bike to Haddenham so that I could connect a run segment I had already done to the run today.  I have done this thing before that I am doing now: [...]

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 [...]