Things happening in Cambridge

While not much is going on in sleepy Dry Drayton, let’s comment on some things that might affect you if you venture further afield into Cambridge.

Coming up shortly from Monday 27th July until Sunday 6th September Silver Street will be closed for traffic travelling West away from the City Centre. Morrison’s Engineering will be replacing a gas main on behalf of National Grid. During the closure, Silver Street will be restricted to single directional traffic in an easterly flow. The eastbound bus stop in Silver Street will still be in operation during these works, but the Westbound stop will be relocated in Newnham Road close to the junction of Newnham Road and Silver Street.

Meanwhile Library fans will be keen to learn the latest about the fate of the Central Lion Yard Library. At last it looks like something is actually happening. Library staff are confidently talking about a mid September opening. The temporary central library site http://hipweb.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/central/whats_new.html suggests that this will be late September. A DryDraytonNet roving reporter snatched these two pictures of what’s happening on the ground and there is a definite sighting of books arriving on the top floor. Perhaps we should be running a sweepstake – a pound a ticket for a guess at the opening date – winner takes all. I think on past performance I’d be buying a mid November ticket, or is that too cynical?

A sighting of BOOKS - wow

Still a way to go on this floor - but there are carpets and bookshelves.

Put Dry Drayton On The Map

Should we be making the effort to put Dry Drayton on the map?

There are a couple of things going on at the moment that we could be participating in.

Is anyone entering the draw to become a Plinther? Win a place and you can stand for an hour on the Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square and during your hour of fame you could advertise little old Dry Drayton – Centre of the Universe. Interested? You can find the links at www.plinthers.com

A plinther at 8am today 14 July 2009

The other great national opportunity is to take part in The Big Lunch on 19th July 2009 – the organisers hope to get all 61 million Britons outside for a great street party with their neighbours. Could we do that again? We did it for one of the Queen’s Jubilees. Or is once in a lifetime often enough for Dry Drayton Street Parties? Find out all about The Big Lunch at www.thebiglunch.com

It’s all over for another year

Dry Drayton Feast Week is over for another year. Superb weather for most of the week must surely have made this a Feast Week to remember. The webmaster was away in even sunnier climes and so missed all the fun. Would anyone be prepared to write up a few lines about the different events?

We are most grateful to Rob Howard for the photographs below of Feast Week Fete.