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Wed 19th
Dracula, 21:00
https://www.picturehouses.com/cine…

Thurs 20th
maybe Train to Busan, 22:30 (but maybe not as I need my sleep at the moment)
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

Fri 21st
The Final Reel, 10:00
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

El Sur, 12:30
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

Short Fusion: Glass Ceiling, 14:30
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

Homo Sapiens, 17:00
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

Sully, 20:00
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

Sat 22nd
Revolution - New Art for a New World, 12:15
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

maybe Arsenal, 18:15
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

maybe Wonder of Creation, 21:15
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

Sun 23rd
(probably nothing)

Mon 24th
The Handmaiden, 21:30
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

Tues 25th
maybe In the Last Days of the City, 17:30
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.o…

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I'm going to be away when this is on, but it looks really cool, someone go and enjoy it:
https://camunivmuseums.wordpress.c…

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18th June, Steampunk day at the Museum of Technology:
http://www.museumoftechnology.com/…
http://static1.squarespace.com/sta…

And the next Repair Cafe is on 2nd July:
http://www.transitioncambridge.org…

This is a thing where you can bring along stuff you have that needs repairing and also eat cake. Alternatively, come along and fix things and eat free cake. In either case, let them know beforehand that you intend to be there (essential for repairers, recommended for people with stuff that needs repairing).

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* eLuminate festival - light artworks around town. 12-17 Feb. http://www.e-luminatefestivals.co.…

* Twilight at the Museums - late opening with special events, family friendly. Wed 17 Feb. https://www.cam.ac.uk/museums-and-…

* Science Festival - you know what one of these is! Bookings open 8 Feb, festival runs 7-20 Mar. http://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.…

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A couple of Cambridge things first:

* Volunteer for Cambridge - a fair full of organisations looking for volunteers. Saturday 11-4 at the Guild Hall. http://www.cambridgehub.org/volunt…

* Repair Cafe - come and get broken stuff fixed and eat cake (or help fix stuff - but do email them beforehand if you want to repair things). I'm going to this, do come and say hi! Saturday 1:30-4:30 at St Andrew's Hall, Chesterton. http://www.transitioncambridge.org…

And London:

* Croydon Fun Weekend - do some cool stuff in Croydon! All weekend, see the timetable. http://www.earth.li/~kake/croydon/…

And if you're elsewhere in the UK:

* The Big Garden Birdwatch - record birds in your garden for an hour for the RSPB's survey. https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/discoveran…

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Last Wednesday, D and I went to the North Pole (the less well-known one, in Cambridge on Parkers Piece). It was pretty quiet but most of the rides were happy to run with only 2-3 people on. They have a carousel, which we got to ourselves! :-) As usual there's an ice rink and there are apparently also Christmas stalls but they were all shut up when we went.

There's a pretty nice bar, serving mulled wine/hot spiced cider + spirits, among other things. The food is not as good as last year, though if you eat pig or turkey they do a pretty mean roast dinner in a giant Yorkshire pudding for a very reasonable price. Not a lot for vegetarians, though there is a crepe stand IIRC.

(In great cycling improvement news, the ice rink is inside the fair compound, and not in its usual position right next to the path across PP, making it much nicer to cycle past.)

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There's a pub on my way to work (The Hopbine) with a massively annoying advertising board. It used to have an advert for a "Husband Daycare Centre". "Ladies! Do you want to shop in peace? Leave your husband with us. You only pay for his food and beer." And for the endless limitations and microaggressions of living in a sexist society, I always wanted to add.

Now they have a new advert, which is even more annoying. It reads "I don't want to get technical but chemistry says alcohol is a solution". Taking my problems with this in reverse order:
1. No, chemistry does not. Chemistry has a specific, useful, and technical meaning for the word "alcohol", which describes things which aren't solutions. Chemistry would call an alcohol solution "an alcohol solution". Stop spreading misinformation.
1a. "Chemistry says" beer is a solution, as are wine and spirits. Why didn't you use one of those instead?
2. Science is not about appealing to authority. Or are you just distancing yourself from knowing something?
3. Also science is not window-dressing for your advertising campaign.
4. *Why* don't you want to get technical? Is scientific literacy too uncool for you?

In less grumpy news (but only relevant to people in or visiting Cambridge) there's a new remaindered bookshop just inside the Grafton Centre, next to Boots, which has a good selection of SF&F. I spotted Lauren Beukes, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Tricia Sullivan, and Adrian Tchaikovsky, plus a selection of Gollancz yellow-back omnibuses.

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The Cambridge Festival of Ideas has just released its programme. I'm looking forward to having enough free time to get to some of it this year!

http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.…
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.…

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A quick reminder that I'm helping at the Repair Cafe on 16th May at St Andrew's Hall, Chesterton. Bring me something to fix or I will be bored!

More details at this link:
http://www.transitioncambridge.org…

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Transition Cambridge is running another Repair Cafe on 16th May at St Andrew's Hall, Chesterton. I will be going along to help fix things and it would be lovely to see some of you there!

More details at this link:
http://www.transitioncambridge.org…

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