Category: Poets and poetry
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The Gown around Town
Last weekend, I was in Cambridge at graduation weekend ( a slight miscalculation of timing!). There were a number of gowns, mostly black with white fur (students graduating with BAs) and smartly dressed, proud parents about town. Persons taking their first Cambridge degrees wear appropriate gowns (in the case of undergraduates their undergraduate gown which varies […]
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Cambridge
This weekend we had a trip out to explore Cambridge and to meet up with family members that we haven’t seen since well before Christmas. After a convivial lunch, we took a stroll through the Front Court of King’s College to the back lawn, which is bounded by Clare College to the north. Clare is the second oldest of […]