2009
Back To the Future
Audrey Wylfing attends the rebranding of the Cambridge Preservation Society and looks forward to the Past.
2008
Welcome to Rats' Bottom
Audrey Wylfing has moved house. Leaving behind her ancestral home at Frog End, she has bought a new apartment in Central Cambridge from a distressed footballer. However, she suffers from nocturnal rodent visitations - hence the name of her new blog.
2007
Cherry-n-Tone
Audrey Wylfing has strained her back in an accident with her fermenting vat. Her son has hired help for her in the form of Cherry-n-Tone who are into country music and car repair
A bursar of the Old Set
A Bursar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge has been sentenced for pilfering from the student bar. Audrey Wylfing defends his honour as a pillar of the local community.
James Watson on Africans
Audrey Wylfing spots a nice cartoon of James Watson with a large DNA molecule
Good Evening Poprad
Audrey Wylfing eulogises the excellent radio station, RTI, from Poprad in Slovakia and recalls the days when Leo got drunk on buffalo grass vodka in Lodz
The Lady of Shalott
Audrey Wylfing has a new set of Ex Libris stickers and is diverted by reading The Lady of Shalott and speculating on Tennyson's life above the sandwich bar in Rose Crescent, Cambridge
Trinity's Royals
Audey Wylfing is amused by a cartoon of a famous window in Trinity College Cambridge.
Organ Futures
The Ink-Jet Widows Investment Club have spotted a new opportunity t sell their ageing bodies
Shrug, Dammit - and Hurry Up About It
Audrey Wylfing is affronted in the Grafton Centre by a person wearing a T-shirt inspired by Ayn Rand
A Quieter Life
Audrey Wylfing elegises the demise of the Cambridge to Mildenhall Railway and expecially the life's work of Reginald Warren Gates, erstwhile station master of Bottisham and Lode.
Putting Things Back
Audrey Wylfing would like to start a movement for putting things back in their rightful places. At an international level this might be the Parthenon Marbles, "stolen" by Lord Elgin. More locally, she suggests putting the gate of Hinchingbrooke Hall back from whence it came, outside Ramsey Abbey
Cambridge, the University Village near London
Audrey Wylfing finds a delightful reason to welcome immigrants from Romania to East Anglia in the work of journalist Laura Thoma and finds an opportunity to post an interesting picture of the Romanian Royal family
Dr. Sam amongst the Oldies
At the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Fleam Dyke, Audrey Wylfing enjoys the presentation of Dr Sam Newton, our foremost authority on the Wuffing Dynasty.
Unfashionable Gyre
Audrey Wylfing recalls the 1960s when she taught poetry to Sheikh Mohammed and muses on the implications of his love of horses and Yeats' poem The Gyres
Tweedledum and Tweedledee in the Cattle Market
Did Permira create Value for the Burghers of Cambridge when they 'built' the Travelodge Hotel? Audre Wylfing goes in search of the truth, finds a good long story and is charmed by P Y Gerbeau's contribution.
Chips, Pins and Esquire Bedells
Audrey Wylfing recommends curling up with a cup of cocoa, a warm cat and a volume of the Cambridge University Reporter. She especially enjoys the long-running debate on intellectual property ownership and the contributions of such scholars as Professors Anderson and Evans.
Jury is Out on Willingham Sculptures
The Cambridge Evening News has got it all wrong about the sculptures found by a track near Willingham. Far from being 'stolen' as has been alleged, from a house in Grantchester, they were merely being 'aged' preparatory to being part of the Belsar's Hill Sculpture Festival - a seasonal fenland tourist attraction.
A Bronze Age Sofa
Archaeologists at Flag Fen and other Bronze Age sites are very unimaginative about how Mr and Mrs Beaker-Person lived. Their reconstructions of round houses are very low on soft furnishings in the opinion of Audrey Wylfing, amateur archaeologist and home-maker.
The Museum of Work
If Hamburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen and even Woonsocket R.I. can have Museums of Work, why not London. Audrey Wylfing suggests a novel use for the Millenium Dome
A Successful Visit
The visit of Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Philip and Li Ka-Shing to Addenbrookes Hospital to open the Cancer Research Centre went very well following Audrey Wylfing's help with the Guest List.
A Chance Encounter on the Dyke
Walking on the Fleam Dyke with her Early Saxon Group, Audrey Wylfing is accosted by two Chinese workers from Cambridge Water with an unusual request
A Happy Ending and Some Cats
Helga has sent a postcard from Davos where she is helping Angela Merkel. She will soon be taking up a new job at the Stasi Museum in Lichtenberg. Meanwhile Audrey Wylfing has to find homes for her seven 'difficult' cats
Net-Walahs and Broadband Babus
Audrey Wylfing is planning her Spring Break to India and has discovered the wonderful new computer network for tourists operated by the Net-Walahs and Broadband Babus.
Cochin and the Mirror World
Audrey Wylfing is considering visiting Cochin for her spring break but is slightly concerned about snakes
