Yesterday I took a wander around the Cambridge Science Park, just over the other side of the A14 – there aren’t many places in this country that could sustain such a development, its certainly some kind of hub of biotech and electronics research, like a little outpost of silicon valley, which is why its called Silicon Fen, I suppose. The weather was miserable but that made it all the better, these places are just like the photos if you see them in sunlight, unreal. I was amused to see the Napp building – someones got too much money and a James-Bond-Villain complex of some sort, haven’t they? Moat, mirrorglass castle, invisible security screen, maybe even a minefield to keep out the curious. Its all getting a bit Gattaca.
Then, in the evening, a small gathering over at lark_ascending and crazyscots place. Much geeking including a certain amount of camera confusion, hearing about architectural psychologists, ballroom dancing and some twisted future explored in sci-fi books I really don’t need to buy more of…
Today another miserable day in the fens, that kind of driving-through-clouds effect where it isn’t really raining, more condensing on the windscreen. I went to March, since I didn’t really have a plan and it was the next place I found a sign to after Ely. I was looking for brown tourist-attraction signs, but they seem rather sparse around here. I guess I was spoiled over near the Wychwood.
March is a dreadful little town full of kids with neon cars who still have something to prove to the world. Luckily they didn’t feel a need to prove anything to me and I went about my business of trying to find something interesting to do in a fenland town on a sunday evening. The best I could come up with was an auctionhouse at the end of the main drag, which looked like it had a bunch of things going on, mostly the normal estate agent stuff but there was some businesses for sale as going concerns along with a collection of peculiar premises. Have to go back sometime when they’re open and see if I can find out more about their auctions….doubt theres much of interest there but its worth a look.
Then back for an evening of wrestling with GPRS internet access points and trying to make them work automagically…*phew* thats rather more involved than I’d hoped. Still, at least that bit is working now.
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