Pub Quiz and various midweek news items

Great news - The Black Horse is having its very first Pub Quiz. It will be held on Wednesday 9th September 2009 starting at 7:00pm, 5 members per team. The winner will take away 2 bottles of their house Merlot/Chardonnay or Rosé.

There may be disruptions to post later this week – there is a 24 hour all out strike within the Mail Centre on Clifton Road Cambridge on Thursday. Morning deliveries will not be affected on Thursday, but their may be a reduced amount of mail on Friday. The strike commences on Thursday 18th September at 6am until Friday 19th September at 6am.  

The agenda for the next Parish Council Meeting has been posted on their Site.

For village bibliophiles, further progress is being made with the new Central Library in Cambridge – as you can see from the photo below the wooden hoarding has been removed from the library entrance on the first floor of the Grand Arcade.

Entrance to the new Lion Yard Library

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.