Coming home to Cambridge

Yesterday, I came back home to many parts of Cambridge that were part of me just 10 years ago.

I started the day, from 9.00 - 11.00 watching my grandson Connor play football at Milton Community Centre, together with his dad and mum.

St Johns Innovation Centre

My first brief stop was at St Johns Innovation Centre. Very nice, but I need to move on?

Cambridge Common

I then travelled in to Cambridge City Centr and parked the car at Grafton Centre.
I then walked through the centre and across the park/common, with its pretty orderly victorian type houses, to Millers Music shop in town. I had to fight through the swarms of people to get there.So many different types of people. Busker musicians doing their thing, and, of course , bicycles.


Music

For a while, it was bliss. So many piano's, electric baby grands, a guy of my age playing on a rock guitar, acoustic guitars, a cubase recording studio setup, drums, electronic drums, all types of sheet music etc etc. I just wanted to play music again everyday. I just wanted to get my baby grand piano and guitars back from France and install them in one of the houses on the common.

Waterstones Book Shop

A temple, as always. I had to buy 'Physics of the Future (simply great so far) and Business Strategy.

Kings College

A walk across the market square took me to Kings College, and the shops selling the wares of the colleges. Such a beautiful courtyard at Kings. So many japanese.

Meditation

I am still amazed and very delighted to see the inner space meditation centre at 6 Kings Parade. I really must go to a talk and/or meditation as I remember the vivid imagining I had, many years ago, about a meditation/spiritual place with a Buddha on the third floor, right opposite the Kings College.

Stopped in the market square for a jacket potato and beans. Watched a juggler with knives.

Beautiful Colleges

I stopped and enjoyed Christs College in the city centre. Collected brochures for a possible summer workshop.

Cambridge Buddhism

Back to the Cambridge Buddhist Centre on Newmarket Road for a quick look. Nice.

Mercedes

Across from Newmarket Road to the Merceded dealer by the airport. Lovely cars. £349 a month leases a new one.

Flying again

Over to Cambridge Aero Club. A nice and friendly reception. Free coffee and a gaze at airplanes again. I must do an hour in a Cessna 172 again soon. Inspired me to get back on the flight simulator.

Newmarket paddocks

Back to the town of Newmarket and its beautiful paddocks and horses. A wonderful fixture from the past.

A haircut by the clocktower, with a first - burning my ear hairs! Nice coffee and staff.

An hour in Rutland Arms Hotel working on a proposal to Singapore.

An hour in the White Hart, reading the Future of Physics together with a good salmon dish and lager shandy.

Back to Lidgate village and a walk with the dogs around the duck pond. Half a bottle of wine. 'Take me out' on TV. Bed by 10.15 (on a saturday too)

I just had to record this. This is real wealth.

Ron