Punters in Cambridge

Here's a blogger's write up of George Galloway's performance in Sheffield yesterday. It's really funny, here's the link.

I went to Cambridge instead, to attend the first ever session of the Cambridge Society of Cogers. The company was brilliant and the setting was outstanding. It's exactly one hour from London's King Cross which is fifteen minutes longer than a bad day going from Kensington to the Aldwych. So I intend to go back.

Not least because a friend has explained to me how you can find interesting lectures to attend and be granted admittance. I bought the 'Cambridge University Reporter' (£2.40, what a bargain!) and definitely intend to go to a couple of the Social and Developmental Psychology lectures - Language and communication and Language and theory of mind, in particular.

While in the queue at the quirky college bookstore (Heffers) I couldn't resist picking up a couple of little brochures by the cash register - "Reading for study", "How to write essays". It cracks me up, this concept of little £1 brochures sitting right there, because it's the same thing that happens in supermarkets, except there it's chocolate and in book lover land it's little booklets on how to learn. Well, I found it funny anyway.

Heffers had more than 20 recently published books on Nelson or Trafalgar and hundreds of recently published books on the Middle East. I've never seen so many and I am a book store addict. They had very little modern fiction and that's as it should be. There's a big Borders by the marketplace for that kind of thing. But they did have Mauve Binchy so there's no excuse Polly.