25 August: Fen Drayton Lakes, RSPB Nature Reserve
We were a little disappointed on the birding front, but the scenery and the speedy bus ride along the Guided Busway from Cambridge were nice.
2 September: Buckingham Palace & Royal Mews
The chief attraction of our family outing to London was a chance to meet up with old friends / former colleagues / travel companions.
... made this our best London outing so far, and gives us courage to contemplate additional trips on our own.
A Quotidian September
One of the highlights of the short 6-week summer holidays was beginning to learn Latin with s.
Now that school has resumed, Latin is not nearly as quotidian as I'd like, partly because of football:
(I'd like to thank Archdeacon Motors for this picture.)
After school, we are sometimes able to work in a swan feeding:
15 September: Parker Library
On an open Saturday afternoon we were able to cross Corpus Christi and Sidney Sussex off our list of Cambridge's 31 colleges.
The Parker Library at Corpus Christi College houses a fantastic library of old books and manuscripts collected by Matthew Parker, a 16th-century archbishop of Canterbury:
Sidney Sussex's claim to fame is Oliver Cromwell's head. We missed the plaque on our first visit, so s. and I returned the next day on our way home from her piano lesson:
29 September Anglesey Abbey Take 2
Since s. did not have a Chesterton Eagles "football" game this weekend, we decided to go on a family outing. Anglesey Abbey fit the bill:
The dahlia garden was in fine form:
Beware of Duck
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