It’s been so long since I last wrote that I now just keep putting it off and off. So long that entire Ages have come and gone while legends, myths and local tales have been created, avidly listened to over a fire on cold winter’s night and then forgotten again.
I’ve been to Cambridge where I was captivated by the old and I mean OLD university buildings, wide avenues, narrow twisting streets and the meandering river Cam. I took so many photo’s that I forgot what I had already taken off and have surely got doubles if not triples of some buildings! I got lost trying to find one area only to find myself at Castle Mound and got a view of the entire city, if I hadn’t got lost I would never have gone there! Sadly it was overcast but still breathtaking.
I walked along the river Cam, watched the punts being steered by university students, offered to take a photo for two Chinese women and in return got my one and only photo with me in it (sorry Pest). I got lost again down the river Cam, but only cos I didn’t know what was in front of me not where I was! I walked along the tree lined Queens Lane and the Backs, where I got to see the back of the university buildings which are even more picturesque than the fronts!
The buildings are so detailed and on such a large scale you have to wonder how someone came up with them in the first place. They belong more in an epic fairytale than in our modern world of reflective skyscrapers and ugly concrete buildings (insert image of RAU buildings).
The work is relatively easy and I have plenty of standby time whereby I’m pretty much sitting watching tv or walking the dog, and a more loving dog you would be hard pressed to find! There is a big shop around the corner, which I actually think is a bad thing, cos I brought way too many sweets! I was only there for a week but I’m going back again in August. Maybe this time I will finally get to the museum that I wanted to go too! They have artefacts from Egypt, and all over… I have definitely got to go! You should have seen me when I saw the Rosetta stone in London 2 years ago!
While Cheshunt has none of the touristy stuff that Cambridge has, I like it more. Well work wise anyway. The chipmunk is little more than a white hamster looking thing with a long bushy tail. It runs around and around its cage all day and then sleeps the rest! It is weird when it crawls over you when you let it out…it’s like a very small Jack softly clawing up your leg.
While the UK was ‘sizzling’ in a heat wave like a typical summer’s day in Richards Bay, I always seemed to get my time off at the hottest time of the day and I would walk around in the heat and just want to sit down. I have to do the shopping in my time off, I don’t mind cos there isn’t much else to do…but couldn’t I do it in the morning!? Lol, I know I can’t but I need to ask someone even if it’s just cybernetic byte somewhere.
I finally managed to persuade my stupid clothes-shopping-averse mind that it was about time for another pair of lightweight trousers (pants are underwear over here). So I actually went clothes shopping AND managed to buy something. Aside from wanting to strangle the shop assistant who was mistakenly rude to me it was ok. But I still can’t see what every other girl I know goes on about when they go shopping! I am definitely wierd:)
I’m here for another week and a bit and then I’m off to the other side of London for a week. And then it’s my birthday! I can’t decide what to do for it? I don’t want to just stay in Harefield, not that I don’t love it there big bro… I just want to do something. Any suggestions? I’ll consider most things…
I was instructed by Kelly that she wanted lots and lots of photos of horses! I didn’t see any in Cambridge and not wanting to disappoint a friend I tried taking some pics of the few horses I saw on the train on my way to Cheshunt. Sadly all I got where blurs or empty green fields. I did manage to get one picture though…sadly only the fleeting glimpse of the back half of the horse’s ass is visible/discernable.
Toodles:)
Post Script: Photo’s to follow when i have my own computer…or back in Harefield!