Things to do in Cambridge when you're dead
Sep. 1st, 2004 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j4Anybody have any suggestions for interesting things to do in Cambridge on one's own at a weekend? Preferably things which are cheap, and absorbing enough to take my mind off other things.
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Date: 2004-09-01 05:41 am (UTC)In reality, I would spend far too much time on the internet, worrying about mundane tasks that I am not doing.
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Date: 2004-09-01 05:44 am (UTC)Yeah, my fallback option is spending the weekend oscillating between wasting time and money on the internet, reading Saint books, drinking too much Coke, and trying not to cry.
The photo-taking idea sounds good. Especially since I have Proper Camera to get to grips with some time. Maybe I will do that.
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Date: 2004-09-01 06:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 06:52 am (UTC)Thanks for the standing invitation. Will bear it in mind. But I may well just end up hiding under a rock. :-/
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Date: 2004-09-01 05:53 am (UTC)Typical bloody cat-lover. I'm surprised you didn't suggest cooking the poor thing, too.
I'm off to the Shackerstone festival (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChrisSimmons/steam_and_canal.htm) with friends, otherwise I'd suggest a meat. I'm afraid my solution to needing something absorbing and brain-deadening over the last few days has involved Albert Ayler being played at high volume, beetroot being boiled, and watching Father Ted for hours. This may not be helpful. Sorry.
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Date: 2004-09-01 06:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-01 05:47 am (UTC)I've not been in the Shiny New Fitz Museum, but that might be worth a look and is free.
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Date: 2004-09-01 06:49 am (UTC)Been to Anglesey Abbey a few times, probably wouldn't bother again. Nice to stroll round in company but not really so much fun on my own.
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Date: 2004-09-01 05:54 am (UTC)Meet up with other LJ-ers who have sod all going on this weekend. Although I have to be in Leicester - Yay! - on Sunday afternoon.
Said N, who might use LJ's new photo-hosting page to put up some of the snaps he took, pottering around Cambridge last Thursday afternoon.
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Date: 2004-09-01 06:50 am (UTC)Doesn't really count as stuff to do on one's own...
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 08:05 am (UTC)Redecorating is a possibility, though.
And tidying is almost certainly a necessity.
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Date: 2004-09-01 05:55 am (UTC)we've had nice walks from bartlow, hadstock, ashdon and castle camps.
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Date: 2004-09-01 06:54 am (UTC)They absorb me enough to not dwell (most of the time) and there's something created at the end of it.
My cats still haven't eaten any of the chilli's on the chilli plant I put in the herb bed the other day :( I want to teach them an important moral lesson about weeing in the herbs.
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 08:06 am (UTC)I suppose hypothermia does rather take one's mind off lesser things, though. :-}
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Date: 2004-09-02 12:24 am (UTC)What's that house called, an artist of some description lived there and it's a museum now full of his stuff and stuff he collected over the years? Kettle's Yard, that's the place. Can't remember if it's a) free/cheap or b) open at weekends, but I enjoyed wandering around there.
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Date: 2004-09-01 05:11 pm (UTC)Cycle around some bit of countryside.
Spend most of the day after a party feeling hungover.
Get utterly engrossed in some pointless computer game.
Go to London, do Something Cultural (or not). £12.60 for a travelcard probably doesn't count as cheap though.
Photograph stuff.
Cook complex meals for one using 18 saucepans, then do the washing up.
Lie around listlessly getting vaguely irritated by Radio 4 and thinking I should be doing something better with my time.
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Date: 2004-09-02 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-02 05:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 06:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 09:55 am (UTC)I'm fairly certain that I have read of a hand charged mobile phone charger. You basically want a Fuck Off spring and a few gears and small motor. And then the current regulation stuff surrounding it. I still think the best bet is to cannabilize a wind up radio, though, to get the dynamo bit out of it.
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Date: 2004-09-02 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 11:41 am (UTC)This is worth an LJ entry on its own.
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