June 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.
December 2007
James Watson on Africans
Audrey Wylfing spots a nice cartoon of James Watson with a large DNA molecule
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
May 2007
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
February 2007
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.
October 2006
Forbidden Fruit in the City of the Mind
Audrey Wylfing, on a mission to buy apartment property in Cambridge for the Ink-Jet Widows investment club, is delighted to see Rowan Pelling in the Free Press Pub.
September 2006
GypsyNet
Audrey Wylfing explores the world of Gypsy Media and ponders whether travellers need a new form of peer-to-peer wireless communications network to help build the online Romani community. A job for the underemployed Cambridge-MIT institute possibly? In the process she celebrates the return of Chalkhill Blue to the Fleam Dyke after an absence of 28 years.
The Cat Who Wasn't There
On a vist to Cambourne, Audrey Wylfing spots a mysterious connection between the logo of the new town and the subtle influence of Cambridge University.
A Passing Thought
Audrey Wylfing spots an uncanny resemblence between Cambridge MP David Howarth and the eminent comedian Benny Hill.
August 2006
Bingo! We are all Targets Now
Audrey Wylfing has been the target of much junk-mail and many link requests from gambling companies. She discovers that organisations which sound quite respectable appear to be selling data, or endorsing the sale of data about disabled people to gaming companies.
Bridging the Funding Gap
Audrey Wylfing thinks it is quite right that the Bridge of Reeds was turned down for Lottery funding. It is Brobdignagian in scale and less inspiring than it should be for the money.
Expiring in The Belvedere
Audrey Wylfing is tempted to trade in her ramshackle property at Frog End for an apartment in The Belvedere and a heap of cash in an offshore account. But what would it be like to expire with a view of the railway line rather than the Med. Not very Thomas Mann.
No Spam Please We're British
Audry Wylfing has been approached by start-up company NSPWeb to invest in its new spam filter software "Do I Know You?" which is specifically designed for the Cambridge business market
A Cabin for your Young People
Flush with cash? Looking for something for the property portfolio? Audrey Wylfing suggests you build a log cabin in your garden to house your Young People. Since they have little prospect of employment and cannot afford a house, why not keep them as domestic servants in an appropriate style?
July 2006
Voynich - the Board Game
Audrey Wylfing from Frog End reveals the answer to the centuries-old mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. It is a board game invented by Erasmus in response to taunts from fellows of Queens' College Cambridge that he was altogether too serious.
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