Back To the Future
by awylfingAudrey Wylfing attends the rebranding of the Cambridge Preservation Society and looks forward to the Past.
Audrey Wylfing attends the rebranding of the Cambridge Preservation Society and looks forward to the Past.
Audrey Wylfing laments the damage done to the artworks in the Taj Hotel and suggests a little more cultural sensitivity might be needed from Al Quaeda.
Audrey Wylfing has moved house. Leaving behind her ancestral home at Frog End, she has bought a new apartment in Central Cambridge from a distressed footballer. However, she suffers from nocturnal rodent visitations - hence the name of her new blog.
Audrey Wylfing kills her first Rockjaw Trogg in World of Warcraft and wonders who cleans up the corpses. Perhaps the Polish Cleaning Ladies are enjoying the good life in the background to this entertaining game
A plea for assistance from the University sends Audrey Wylfing to her old book and manuscript chest in search of a historic parchment which might help with the 800th Anniversary celebrations
Audrey Wylfing and Maureen don their "investors for peace" badges and visit Tony Benn in Cambridge. But a bottle of chilled chablis draws them away from deeper involvement with the Stop The War Coalition
Audrey Wylfing invests in the new booming business of stem cell harvesting. For the parsimonious Dutch its a case of "waste-not-want-not" for thise umbilical cords
Audrey Wylfing has strained her back in an accident with her fermenting vat. Her son has hired help for her in the form of Cherry-n-Tone who are into country music and car repair
A Bursar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge has been sentenced for pilfering from the student bar. Audrey Wylfing defends his honour as a pillar of the local community.
Audrey Wylfing spots a nice cartoon of James Watson with a large DNA molecule
Audrey Wylfing eulogises the excellent radio station, RTI, from Poprad in Slovakia and recalls the days when Leo got drunk on buffalo grass vodka in Lodz
Audrey Wylfing has a new set of Ex Libris stickers and is diverted by reading The Lady of Shalott and speculating on Tennyson's life above the sandwich bar in Rose Crescent, Cambridge
Audey Wylfing is amused by a cartoon of a famous window in Trinity College Cambridge.
The Ink-Jet Widows Investment Club have spotted a new opportunity t sell their ageing bodies
Audrey Wylfing is affronted in the Grafton Centre by a person wearing a T-shirt inspired by Ayn Rand
Audrey Wylfing suggests a new investment vehicle for these troubled times. Buy Roman coins and bury them in a field. It wn't give you much return but you can amuse your descendents with a treasure hunt
Audrey Wylfing elegises the demise of the Cambridge to Mildenhall Railway and expecially the life's work of Reginald Warren Gates, erstwhile station master of Bottisham and Lode.
William Gibson's Spook Country is delightfully unpredictable. Audrey Wylfing explores a possible connection between its Belgian villain, Hubertus Bigend and the Bikker advertising agency of Rotterdam
Audrey Wylfing recalls the days when she advised the Knights of St Thomas of Acon on their vestments
Audrey Wylfing speculates on the current fashion for shaved heads. Are they a form of sexual oddity for gay military people, or possibly they are a sign of a new millenarian head-bashing cult
Audrey Wylfing speculates about whether men who smoke are generally more attractive than those who don't and offers Gerrit Reitveld as an example
Audrey Wylfing gives her first hot stick tip - the ailing "penny share" Sagentia, which has great potential for asset stripping
Audrey Wylfing visits a friend in Fulbourn Hospital and finds plenty of space in the car park or Capital Park
Audrey Wylfing takes her black dog to Reach Fair and enjoys a drink at the Dyke's End pub. The fair prompts musing on magical kingdoms and the ancient obligations of yereshyve and scotale.
Audrey Wylfing would like to start a movement for putting things back in their rightful places. At an international level this might be the Parthenon Marbles, "stolen" by Lord Elgin. More locally, she suggests putting the gate of Hinchingbrooke Hall back from whence it came, outside Ramsey Abbey