Lazy Weekend…
24 August 2009 // Film/TV //Miscellany
Had a very lazy weekend – the calm before the storm of a couple of very good friends of CBTR’s wedding this coming Saturday. Stumbled over a few really interesting bits I thought it was worth sharing. Most obvious was George Monbiot‘s brilliant piece about sea fishing in The Guardian Weekend section on Saturday. I [...]
Matt’s Bird of the Week – The Jackdaw
24 August 2009 // Matt's Bird of the Week
The least creepiest of the crows, often seen swaggering about like they’re carrying a couple of radiators. His Rook and Crow brothers definitely have the whole horror thing sewn up, but there is something very spooky about a Jackdaw, and i know why… They are one of the only animals to have white iris’s and [...]
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Big River Man
Special UK Preview of BIG RIVER MAN with The Fish Man, Martin Strel! ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SUNSET SCREENING ON GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS ON MONDAY 31 AUGUST As a special curtain raiser for this year’s Cambridge Film Festival the Cambridge Film Trust team are putting together an ambitious open air cinema programme over the August Bank Holiday weekend [...]
Thames Clean Up
Moondust CD in the shop
The awesome soundtrack to the bestselling book by Andrew Smith. Includes a 24 page booklet with exclusive sleevenotes by the author. We’ve got a few copies for salein our shop. Tracklisting; 1. Bernard Hermann – Prelude And Outer Space 2. The Byrds – Eight Miles High 3. Strawberry Alarm Clock- Incense And Peppermints 4. Creedence [...]
Cut The Carp
20 August 2009 // Caught By... //Miscellany
Biddy and Sonny, friends of ours from Down Under, have illustrated a story in the latest issue of Wired magazine about an invasive breed of Asian carp. The illo is ace – find it here.
Thames 21 – Flashmob the Foreshore
The Cleaner Thames Challenge is back for the fourth year running. This year, it’s going to be different. Very different! Bring your family, bring your friends and bring your colleagues to one of our four different clean-up locations below. DAY ONE: FULHAM, BISHOP’S PARK. DATE: Thursday 20 August TIME: 9.15am – 11.45am MEET: at the [...]
The Duckworth/Lewis Method
“Duckworth/Lewis method n a system designed for calculating revised targets for either team in rain-interrupted limited-overs games.” The Wisden Dictionary Of Cricket by Michael Rundell I’m not (yet) an angler but I’ve been going to the test match with my Dad for nearly 20 years and I imagine one can probably derive some of the [...]
Jon Savage on Canned Heat
Friend Of The River Jon Savage has contributed his first blog to The Guardian website today – topical as this week is 40 years since Woodstock (in case you hadn’t noticed!), Jon is writing about that festival’s virtual soundtrack, “Going Up The Country” by Canned Heat.
