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It’s tough here.

Yesterday afternoon in Cambridge I had my headlights and wipers on. It’s amazing what a couple of hours in a plane can do.

Cambridge was a seething, bubbling broth of tourists and language students today – more than I can remember in a long time. They were trying to go in all of these directions. At once. I had to push my bike along a few streets because it was pointless trying to ride it.

Normally I know better than to go into town on a sunny Saturday morning, but I had promised myself a new camera lens. Very pleased with it so far…

What colour is a light switch?

I saw and liked this Python / Google T-shirt at Opentech. (If you don't understand it, don't worry - it's a very geeky joke!)

Mr & Mrs Blackie, as we’ve christened them, have been busy and have produced a second nestful of squeaking chicks in the clematis outside our kitchen window, a gang who obviously need constant feeding.

Having a strange man land in the garden in a deck chair this afternoon didn’t stop them, but they kept a close eye on me as they went about their duties.

You know how people say (when their kids reach a certain age) that they’re just taxi drivers now?

It could be worse. They could actually be the taxi!

I had great fun with my friends Martin, Hilary and Eddie today in my… ahem… two-man canoe…

Regular readers will no doubt be amused that four days after writing proudly about my iPod-waterproofing system, I bent a little too far forward while standing on a pier and my phone, which of course wasn’t in such an enclosure, slipped out of my shirt pocket.

So I ended up doing a little swimming in the Great Ouse that I hadn’t really planned, and it was actually most refreshing. For me. I haven’t yet dared ask the phone how it feels…

These three have grown fast since they fluttered down out of their nest a couple of weeks ago. Still definitely not adults, though!

Some pics from this afternoon’s walk around Isleham.

The cat is a few years old. The priory behind, about a millennium.

Flutter by.

Wall-eyed.

This used to be a railway cutting, but no longer. Cars can’t go there either. But pedestrians can find a way…

(These are on Flickr – you can click them for different sizes and for others in the set. As with most of my photos recently, they’re geotagged, so Flickr can show you where they are on a map if you should happen to be curious!)

From our trip last weekend.

These are on the canal between Bruges and Damme.

I love it here. Good to be back, even if only for a day.