BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?

Subject: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 04:09 AM

I'm taking Mrs P to a conference next Tuesday at C United Footbal Club. Any(constructive!) suggestions for things I can do in town to while away the day? (And I've punted on the Cam already.) I shall have my camera: any photogenic recommendations?

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: Jeanie
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 04:53 AM

I don't know whether you like this kind of thing, but I know where I would be heading with a day to while away in Cambridge:
Fitzwilliam Museum and/or any of the many other museums .

The smaller museums are often only open in the afternoons. More than enough Bookshops to Die For to spend the morning (or several days) in ! Heaven.

Have a great time, whatever you do. It's a lovely place.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: s&r
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 05:03 AM

When you're walking round with your camera, look at roof level - there are crests, gargoyles, and all sorts of architectural features.
The market's worth half an hour or so. Second-hand and charity shops reflect the student/university: in particular we have found a few gems in bookshops. Range of delicatessens with interesting food.

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 05:46 AM

Thanks, Jeanie & Stu: sounds like enough to keepme out of mischief.

Stu, if you're ever in Walsall (bad luck!) see how many lion's heads you can find.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 05:55 AM

Kettle's Yard beyond any doubt - click on this link and find out about it, though the website doesn't do it justice: "Kettle's Yard was founded by H.S. 'Jim' Ede as a place where visitors would 'find a home and a welcome, a refuge of peace and order, of the visual arts and of music.'". It's an amazing litle place - and only just up the road from a good pub and a good secondhand bookshop and an escellent Oxfam.

And among other stuff, there's some lovely examples of "naive art" by Cornish fisherman Alfred Wallis, with his letters about them.

Subject: RE: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 08:29 AM

Outside of town there's the Cambridge war cemetery and Duxbridge Aerodrome. I remember that there are many, many, bookstores; museums abound; there are a few pubs -- hmmm...bookstores, pubs -- what else is needful?

Subject: RE: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 08:31 AM

Why not stay in bed and take some 'candid' photgraphs, nudge nudge wink wink

Subject: RE: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 09:10 AM

Here's a site about Alfred Wallis I found while checking up for that last post - and here's a bit from it to show what I mean about the letters - they are folk poetry, and don't let the spelling get in the way - "'Their is Nothing on The water Than Beats a full Riged ship' " :

In the just legible letters sent to Ben Nicholson and Jim Ede inside parcels of pictures, Wallis spoke simply yet revealingly about himself.

To Ede, he wrote in April 1935: 'what i do mosley is what use to Bee out of my own memery what we may never see again as Thing are altered al To gether if i live Till the 8 of august next I shall be 78 years old. I was Born in Devenport Born on The day of the fall of severserpool Rushan war.'

In November the following year, he wrote to Ede: 'i am self taught so you cannot me like Those That have Been Taught Both in school and paint i have had to learn my self i never go out to paint nor i never show them.'

Some of the lines in his letters to Ben are pure poetry: 'Their is Nothing on The water Than Beats a full Riged ship' (November 1928); 'I was always for Boats' (January 1929); referring to his predilection for sea (rather than land-bound) pictures: '..not to sell inlan Towns/ is the Best for sellin ships/ I am verry fond of ships/ of all kinds Rocks and Beaches' (June 1933); and in an undated fragment referring to his strongly religious temperament (based more on bible-reading than chapel-going): 'I am a Bible Keeper it is Red 3 hundreds sixty times a year by me.'

Subject: RE: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 05:27 PM

Do you think he might have been an ancestor of jOhn's? Not too hot on spelling but full of wisdom?

Subject: RE: BS: What do do in Cambridge in the day?
From: Gurney
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 02:53 AM

I can't help with what's on, but as regards the header, do your do-do's in the proper place.

I've matchfished the Cam. Lousy fishing and speedboat to make it interesting. We bombarded him with maggots in groundbait.