Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Local charity Cambridge Past, Present and Future (CambridgePPF) has created a varied calendar of events this February to help you learn new skills and get more out of the countryside. Coton Reserve will be a hive of activity as the Rangers showcase orienteering as a different way of exploring the countryside and explain how vegetation [...]
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Dick Dunn knows his onions after 43 years growing his own food and gave Resident a tour of his flourishing Cambridge allotment on Fanshawe Road. I found a plot when my son was one year old, sys Mr Dunn. It was full of brambles and overrun with snails so I just started clearing it. The [...]
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Resident fitness promotion Occupying three floors, Kelsey Kerridge Sports Centre is one of Cambridge’s most exciting sports centres with a vast array of facilities and services. The top floor where Outlooks Gym is situated is stocked with top of the range cardiovascular equipment plus a full range of resistance machines. A team of highly qualified [...]
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Five years ago, Jess Simpson Nicholl and her partner, Tim Worzencraft, started their gardening business, Real Gardens Cambridge (www.realgardenscambridge.co.uk). They do everything from initial planning and hard landscaping, to planting suggestions and on-going maintenance. RHS-qualified Jess says, “Everyone knows this year started with drought conditions and has since become the wettest summer on record! “We [...]
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Home-making on a budget can be unique and stylish, as this Ely couple prove Ed Hine, senior marketing officer at the Junction, 28 and girlfriend Kate Neill, 29, live in a period house in Ely which they have been lovingly redecorating in a retro style. Kate runs Goodnight Prudence Vintage (www.etsy.com/shop/GoodnightPrudence) an online shop selling [...]
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It’s only a few months until the start of the London Olympics, and this year’s Cambridge Science Festival is helping to crank up the excitement levels with a week of interactive fun and games for all ages under the suitably inspirational title of Breaking Boundaries. The Festival has a guest director for the first time [...]
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Come September this year, and the River Cam will once again be reverberating to the splash of oar on water and the sound of drums rhythmically being beaten to encouurage eleven-strong teams of intrepid men and women taking part in this year’s Cambridge Dragonboat Festival. Now September may be a little while off yet, but [...]
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The part of Cambridge known – on maps at any rate – as Newtown, is one of the city’s most pleasant neighbourhoods. It’s that small enclave loosely bordered by Hills Road, the Botanic Garden and Lensfield Road, and is home to several university departments and some fine traditional pubs, including The Alma. As well as [...]
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Quicksilver amusements are based in 2 locations in Cambridge. The first is on Burleigh Street, just a few doors down from Primark near the Grafton Centre. The second is in the historic centre on Sidney Street; just off the market square near Lakeland In total there is over 140 Quicksilver Amusements across the UK, from [...]
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If there is one radio DJ that has really pushed through to the mainstream in the past year, it must surely be Mistajam. Having grown to become the best-known DJ on Radio 1Xtra, he’s now also making his presence felt on Radio 1 itself. But his is not a face just for the radio, because [...]
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