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June 2008
Welcome to Rats' Bottom
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.
December 2007
The Cleaning Ladies of Dun Morogh
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
Something from the Incunabula Chest
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
Levellers and Revellers
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
Go Dutch in the Deep Freeze
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
Cherry-n-Tone
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 the Old Set
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.
James Watson on Africans
Audrey Wylfing spots a nice cartoon of James Watson with a large DNA molecule
Good Evening Poprad
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
The Lady of Shalott
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
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October 2007
Trinity's Royals
Audey Wylfing is amused by a cartoon of a famous window in Trinity College Cambridge.
Organ Futures
The Ink-Jet Widows Investment Club have spotted a new opportunity t sell their ageing bodies
Shrug, Dammit - and Hurry Up About It
Audrey Wylfing is affronted in the Grafton Centre by a person wearing a T-shirt inspired by Ayn Rand
The Parable of the Talents
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
A Quieter Life
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.
August 2007
Herbertus in Spook Country
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
July 2007
Last Orders, Gentlemen, Please
Audrey Wylfing recalls the days when she advised the Knights of St Thomas of Acon on their vestments
The Cult of The Pate
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
An Unfashionable Cloud
Audrey Wylfing speculates about whether men who smoke are generally more attractive than those who don't and offers Gerrit Reitveld as an example
Today's Hot Tip - Sagentia
Audrey Wylfing gives her first hot stick tip - the ailing "penny share" Sagentia, which has great potential for asset stripping
May 2007
A Capital Scheme
Audrey Wylfing visits a friend in Fulbourn Hospital and finds plenty of space in the car park or Capital Park
The King at the Dyke's End
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.
Putting Things Back
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
The Dog and the Fair
Audrey Wylfing has been visited by a large black dog which sits between her drinking chair and her keyboard. She needs cheering (or perhaps sobering) up and decides to visit Reach Fair
Cambridge, the University Village near London
Audrey Wylfing finds a delightful reason to welcome immigrants from Romania to East Anglia in the work of journalist Laura Thoma and finds an opportunity to post an interesting picture of the Romanian Royal family
