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
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
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
April 2007
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.
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.
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
January 2007
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
God Bless the Bulgarian Property Market
Audrey Wylfing is considering buying an apartment in Bulgaria but is rathare concerned about the inter-ethnic complexities of the place. She feels the need of a patron saint - probably Saint Anthony
Sir Gerry and the Pacemakers
Audrey Wylfing has a three-point plan to shorten NHS waiting lists:
1. Stop putting so many people on them
2. Rename them Consultants Waiting Lists
3. Charge private consultants for the use of NHS facilities
December 2006
A Shrug of the Shoulders
The word of private equity finance reminds Audrey Wylfing of the children's story, The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
The moral of this is not to leave your economy in the hands of little girls
The Members Attend an Anatomy Lesson
Audrey Wylfing has fallen in love with Professor O'Rahilly of the Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust.
Become a member of your local trust and enjoy such entertaining events as his lecture on Obesity - Science and Stigma
News of the Herring
All things herring-related
Eel and Mango Canapes
If you are celebrating the death of General Pinochet, like Audrey Wylfing, why not try a new recipe fr your canapes? The cheap deal on Mangoes at Sainsbury's this week is the perfect opportunity to try smoked eel and mango - perfect with a Manzanilla sherry
A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies
President Bush has moved swiftly to take Audrey Wylfing's advice to abandon worldly ambitions and head for space. In view of the plans for a new Moon Station, she anticipates a revival in Futurism and suggests a new award system The Audreys (in imitation of Hugo Gernsback and the Hugos) to reward imagination
