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St Columba's church cast a splendid shadow on the side of the new John Lewis building in Cambridge this morning.

One of the reasons I think I'm so lucky to live here is that our walk into the town centre this morning incorporated feeding ducks, watching kayakers, drinking lattés, grocery and shoe shopping, and took in both the view above and the one below.

One of the many joys of working in the Ndiyo/Camvine shed is the view from the window, looking westward towards Grantchester. It rained for much of today, but the sun came out in the evening.

I was out at Wimpole Hall this afternoon with friends. A beautiful afternoon. Congratulations to Robert & Turi on their 7th anniversary! (Click pictures for larger versions)

"It's how long until I can ride one of these?!"

I saw this at a local supermarket today. I wasn't entirely convinced by the logic...

One of the pictures that didn't get used in the recent Guardian article:

Many thanks to John Robertson, who owns the copyright, for permission to post it.

A traveller met I, on an evening road His struggle hard and long And, though the end was now in sight, Great danger lingered on!

I hope he reached his journey's end As I came safe to mine His distance may be less by far; His conquest? Far more fine!

Arty photo du jour...

It's just fabulous here.

In May I was in Sydney, and had dinner at the revolving restaurant at the top of the Centrepoint tower. The food was not bad. The view was spectacular. I took a few photos, some of which were a bit blurry and most of which had some reflections from inside the restaurant, but with the help of Photoshop I managed to blend three roughish images together to get this. It's reasonably high resolution, if you want to click it and see the other sizes on Flickr.