CGM in Cambridge
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jackMy friend is visiting from America this week, and her, and I, and sometimes Liv, have done several Cambridge things.
We went to a Ceilidh. It was really fun.
We went to the Orchard tearooms at Grantchester for the first time this year.
Anna showed us how to bake butterscotch brownies, which were really lovely.
We went to Poohsoc at the botanic gardens.
We discussed the Hugo Nominees, lots of politics, some ecology, and a little bit of religion.
We had a friday night meal, with candles and used my wedding-present Challah-cover for the first time. I was unreasonably excited to use it, because usually if I'm not with liv on Friday night, I don't do any of the jewish things (because I'm not jewish). And if I am with liv, we're usually at her house or her parents house. But eventually I was able to have a meal with a different Jewish friend :) The challah cover is really pretty: made from yellow-brown mushroom fabric from my teacosy, and owls fabric from liv's rea cosy, and colourful mushroom fabric, and umbrellas and cupcakes and icecreams and winds and other owls and even more owls.
We went to Rosy and Dave's science centre on Jesus Lane. It's really cool, it's like being a child again where you play with the cool science toys :) It's open to school trips in the morning and the public in the afternoon. I definitely learnt some things from the exhibits, even if I'm embarrassed I didn't already know them[1][2][3]. It's useful but not necessary to bring a scientist with you to squee about things in more detail :)
[1] You know those coloured disks you spin and get different colours because the colours blur together? You can spin a pure black-and-white pattern, and it looks like different colours in different radii because (it is conjectured) different cones respond to changes in light at different speeds.
[2] I learned what shape things in the ear actually are!
[3] If you take a carefully spaced row of parallel wires, touch your hands on either side of them, and pull your hands back together, it feels like your hands are made of velvet with a little bit of electricity. OK, I didn't really learn anything because I've still no idea why, but it was very surprising. We experienced the effect to different amounts fwiw.
We went to a Ceilidh. It was really fun.
We went to the Orchard tearooms at Grantchester for the first time this year.
Anna showed us how to bake butterscotch brownies, which were really lovely.
We went to Poohsoc at the botanic gardens.
We discussed the Hugo Nominees, lots of politics, some ecology, and a little bit of religion.
We had a friday night meal, with candles and used my wedding-present Challah-cover for the first time. I was unreasonably excited to use it, because usually if I'm not with liv on Friday night, I don't do any of the jewish things (because I'm not jewish). And if I am with liv, we're usually at her house or her parents house. But eventually I was able to have a meal with a different Jewish friend :) The challah cover is really pretty: made from yellow-brown mushroom fabric from my teacosy, and owls fabric from liv's rea cosy, and colourful mushroom fabric, and umbrellas and cupcakes and icecreams and winds and other owls and even more owls.
We went to Rosy and Dave's science centre on Jesus Lane. It's really cool, it's like being a child again where you play with the cool science toys :) It's open to school trips in the morning and the public in the afternoon. I definitely learnt some things from the exhibits, even if I'm embarrassed I didn't already know them[1][2][3]. It's useful but not necessary to bring a scientist with you to squee about things in more detail :)
[1] You know those coloured disks you spin and get different colours because the colours blur together? You can spin a pure black-and-white pattern, and it looks like different colours in different radii because (it is conjectured) different cones respond to changes in light at different speeds.
[2] I learned what shape things in the ear actually are!
[3] If you take a carefully spaced row of parallel wires, touch your hands on either side of them, and pull your hands back together, it feels like your hands are made of velvet with a little bit of electricity. OK, I didn't really learn anything because I've still no idea why, but it was very surprising. We experienced the effect to different amounts fwiw.
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Date: 2014-05-10 06:16 am (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2014-05-11 04:14 pm (UTC)I'm not sure if that's enough to let someone else make it, but Anna said she'd be happy to fill in a few more details if it helped.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2014-05-11 09:16 pm (UTC)Thank you.