Wow – Feast Week already. We are in for a real treat later this week as the Village Art Exhibition opens in the Church. The village artists have been painstakingly applying their watercolours and pastels over the last year in preparation for this wonderful event.
But an even greater artistic treat lies ahead as two village artists open their studios to the public as a part of the Cambridge Open Studios month. Mike Westbrook and Pauline Bunyan have open studios on the 19th/20th and 26th/27th July. And just down the road – don’t miss Nigel Payne’s open studio in Madingley on 5th/6th and 12th/13th July. If you are not familiar with Cambridge Open Studios you are missing one of the best events of the summer. You can read all about it at www.cambridgeopenstudios.co.uk and visit the studios during the four weekends of July. Look out for the yellow flags
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Strange things were happening in and around Dry Drayton this weekend.
A night shift worker from Dry Drayton – one of those excellent essential workers who keep the major London hospitals working – had a scary trip to work on Saturday night. Arriving at Cambridge Railway Station at about 7pm to catch the Kings Cross train, she found that there were over a hundred unhappy travellers herded outside the station by the British Transport Police. A security incident was in progress – all trains to London up and down the line were halted and nobody could say for how long. A fast drive to central London saved the day and she arrived just in time for an 8.30pm start – her kind driver facing a hundred mile trip instead of a quick turn-around in Cambridge. Try getting compensation for that from the train operator!
Then on Sunday it snowed again, for the second weekend running. Some sort of serious incident happened on the back road from Madingley to Cambridge as police closed the road.
You would think you might be able to find a passing reference to these newsy items in the Cambridge News, but our venerable local paper seems to have missed them.
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