Tuesdayday - Day
Three
We are up early and soon head down to breakfast. The word
for today is Organic. The discussion at the breakfast table
in on the benefits of organic foods. Nico, Peggy and Keva
get into a healthy (excuse the pun) debate on this subject.
Almost all of what Peggy serves (both last night and this
morning) is organic and she is proud to let us know as she
serves each dish to us. I pretty much stay out of this
debate and eventually retreat back up to the bedroom and get
on the computer. There is no set plan for today but we have
to go by Corpus (Nico’s college) to take care of some
graduation business and Keva has to drop off something for
her brother. After that, the day is pretty much open. Nico
still has marking to do so she might go to a library or book
store and try to work on that. Keva will want to book shop
and as for me, I guess that I will just follow the crowd. I
can now hear from downstairs Nico’s voice rising above
the others saying “no, let me finish” so I guess
that the debate continues. It has now moved on to the
progress of man - the good and the bad. The sun is shining
and so far it looks like to might be a nice day weather
wise. I will go down now and see if I can break up the
discussion so that we can get going.
Corpus
Christi College - Nico's Alma Mater
Peggy give us a lift close to Corpus Christi College
where Nico chats with the secretary of the Praelector (the
person who presents the graduands) to discuss what will
happen on Saturday. She tells us that we should not blink
because it goes by very fast. There is some money to be paid
for graduation, and the dinner after, but that information
has been mailed to Peggy so we have to wait for that and
hopefully deal with it on Thursday. Nico takes us through
the Old Court of Corpus and points out the window dedicated
to Christopher Marlowe and John Fletcher.
 The
Old Court at Corpus
The
window dedicated to Marlowe and Fletcher
Keva drops off a letter to St. Catherine’s College
and then we take a stroll and look at some of the other
colleges. The one that is my favourites and I think also the
favourite of Keva and Nico, as it relates to architecture,
is Kings College.
Two
photos of the majestic and beautiful Kings
College
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We walk through Kings and through a number of
the other colleges (there are thirty colleges which
make up Cambridge University) and take in some of
the beauty and history that makes Cambridge what it
is. Trinity is also very nice, as I recall from my
last trip to Cambridge, but we only look at it from
behind and from afar.
Keva has some things she would like to purchase but
first she has to change some travellers checks so
we get to a bank and they in turn send us to the
American Express office because there will be no
charge changing them there. Keva goes off to do
some shopping and Nico and I go into a bookstore
called Waterstones where she gets back to marking
final papers (where she actually gave her first A
for the term) and I do some work on the web page.
Keva joins us and we head off to a restaurant
called Don Pasquale for lunch. After a good meal
it’s time to get some of the necessities of
life and one of those for Nico and Keva is coffee.
Nico likes the coffee from the Market Place so that
is our first stop.
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Next stop is Boots (a drug store), followed by
Heffers (the main Cambridge bookstore) where Nico
is looking for some ink cartridges. They send us to
another Heffers (Heffers Plus) and on our way there
we pass Ryder and Amies who are the suppliers of
college clothes and the necessary robes in which on
graduates for all the colleges in Cambridge
University. We go in and Nico gets to try on, and
buy, the robe that she will first wear at
graduation back in The Bahamas in two weeks time
but she will have to wear her Masters robe on
Saturday as they will not recognize her as a doctor
until after the ceremony. Actually, she can were
the same robe but it’s the hood and facings
that will be different.
Next to Ryder and Amies is an Internet Exchange and
we stop in to check our email. We pass by
Fitzbillies and Nico and Keva go in to get our
dessert for tonight’s dinner. We then make our
way to Heffers Plus and Nico gets to purchase all
sorts of ink cartridges for her pen. This is
something that she has picked up from Martin Kryl
who used all sorts of fancy ink colours and now she
has about eight different colours of ink to play
with. It’s now ten past four and the sun has
already set and it’s just starting to drizzle
a little as we get a taxi and head back to
Peggy.
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Once home, we have tea and watch two television
game shows, Countdown and The Weakest Link, both of
these shows appeal to a far smarter audience than
any of the quiz shows that we get from the USA
except maybe Jeopardy.
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Nico
stocks up on cartridges
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Just before the second show comes on we get a
phone call from Ella and she and Nico talk for
almost an hour. We make plans to meet her and
hopefully a number of other Pearson students on
Friday night. I go upstairs and to my surprise
(well, not really) in a few minutes they are
downstairs talking about progress AGAIN.
We have another nice dinner and Peggy tells us that
another episode of The Weakest Link is on. This
time it’s the champions of past episodes
competing against each other. We get a kick out of
the show’s host and way in which she throws
off each of the weakest links. She is very dry and
caustic and we all laugh each time she tells the
contestants how badly they are doing. We decide on
another early night as we are to be up early in the
morning to catch a train to London where we expect
to see a show but more importantly we plan to meet
up with Karin Afeef and we are looking forward to
that.
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