Cambridge Red, making me see red.
Dom
on once a year for a month, and the rest of the time they
campaigned for a full-time community radio station licence.
License. Whatever. When they were on the air, they broadcast
a diverse range of sounds. The presenters were people you
knew, or if not, you knew people that knew them, even if you
didn't know it.
Eventually a full-time licence became available, and was
operated by Cambridge Cafe Radio, which had at least the
same initials as CCR, even though some of the original
campaigners appeared less than delighted with the new
station. It was a bit less zany, a bit more mainstream,
and the presenters sounded more like professional radio-
people and less like the kid two doors down.
And now we have Cambridge Red. "a breakfast show of
tunes you can sing along to". A Golden Oldies slot.
Yes, the same brain-dead unchallenging homogenised Aussie-
soap-star walking-on-sunshine [1] lowest-common-denominator
cabbage-brained McDonalds of a playlist that we know and
hate on every other poxy "local" commercial radio station.
I think it's about time for a campaign for a community
radio station.
[1] On the off chance that Kim & co ever read this, nothing
personal.
Steve Hunt
> And now we have Cambridge Red. "a breakfast show of
> tunes you can sing along to". A Golden Oldies slot.
Yeah. Even the RDS ident is a moronic "___RED____".
James Brown
> Eventually a full-time licence became available, and was
> operated by Cambridge Cafe Radio, which had at least the
> same initials as CCR, even though some of the original
> campaigners appeared less than delighted with the new
> station. It was a bit less zany, a bit more mainstream,
> and the presenters sounded more like professional radio-
> people and less like the kid two doors down.
I remember the old CCR fondly. I spent a week with them several years ago
as part of the Summer in the City youth programme. The studio overlooking
Parkers Piece was a soundproofed partition in the front bedroom of a house
that now contains offices. The rest of the room (a desk) was their office.
I think that pretty much sums up Community Radio, or at least how
Community Broadcasting should be done.
--James Brown
Paul Roberts
Dom wrote in message <73c2c4$fmc$1...@shiny.i-cubed.co.uk>...
>Once upon a time we had Cambridge Community Radio. It was
>on once a year for a month, and the rest of the time they
>campaigned for a full-time community radio station licence.
>
>License. Whatever. When they were on the air, they broadcast
>a diverse range of sounds. The presenters were people you
>knew, or if not, you knew people that knew them, even if you
>didn't know it.
>
>operated by Cambridge Cafe Radio, which had at least the
>same initials as CCR, even though some of the original
>campaigners appeared less than delighted with the new
>station. It was a bit less zany, a bit more mainstream,
>and the presenters sounded more like professional radio-
>people and less like the kid two doors down.
>
>tunes you can sing along to". A Golden Oldies slot.
>
>soap-star walking-on-sunshine [1] lowest-common-denominator
>cabbage-brained McDonalds of a playlist that we know and
>hate on every other poxy "local" commercial radio station.
>
>I think it's about time for a campaign for a community
>radio station.
>
money to run the station (running a 24 hour station isn't cheap) gets to
dictate the style of the station. For most radio stations this means adverts
and playlisting.
I worked on a student radio (University Radio Falmer (sussex uni campus
radio)) that managed to avoid having adverts so the DJ's could play what
they liked, and anyone could be a DJ, you just had to pay your membership
and prove that you were competent (ie not likely to break the kit).IIRC they
were funded by a combination of subsidy from the university (ie not paying
rent on the studios), subsidy from the student union and membership fees.
They were also broadcasting using an old surplus military transmitter, but
if you are only broadcasting to a small valley that is a powerful enough
transmitter.
Cheers
Paul
Olivier Suard (Public)
channel 8 of Cambridge cable)? Now that's entertainment (well for the
presenters anyhow)?
Olivier
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Steve Davies
>And now we have Cambridge Red. "a breakfast show of
>tunes you can sing along to". A Golden Oldies slot.
Have to agree with your sentiments.
I used to enjoy Cambridge Cafe Radio. Thought it was a nice name,
even. Much preferred the varied programming to the other choices
audible here.
Cambridge Red means nothing to me (associates it with the amateurish
Cambridge Red community access station).
Can we have CCR back, please!?
Steve
Jon
: OK - I'll give you clues - start with 10 points and deduct 1 for every clue
: you need - keep scrolling to get more clues:
Oh cool! A game! :-)
: Clue 1) I don't have cable TV
You're happy with the 5 channels you get terrestrialy?
: Clue 2) In fact I don't have a TV at all
You're NOT happy with 5 channels you get terrestrialy then...
: Clue 3) I've been in the news quite a lot this year, especially locally
You're a local 'personality' in the vein of Snowy Farr?
: Clue 4) Red TV has made a number of programs about local issues
They interviewed you lots about the mice you have running all over you?
: Clue 5) They made one program about transport issues in Cambridge
You give people piggyback rides for charity?
: Clue 6) They had another about trishaws
Are you the guy who ran the Trishaw company?
: Clue 7) I used to run a trishaw business
Yes you ARE....
: Clue 8) It was in Cambridge
Cool. I was thinking about applying for a job in the summer once, as I
used to be a courier and knew my way around the place, hence.
: Clue 9) The trishaws were red
I like red.
: Clue 10) Er ... if you haven't got it by now you should probably be
: considering a career in local government!
I'm running for Mayor....
Er...I've forgotten what I was supposed to be guessing now....*DUH*...
Umm...
You were on TV lots cos of the trishaw thing.
Jon
P.S. Why don't you run the trishaws anymore? This is actually a serious
question, needing only a one-line answer (not 'Ask someone else' please
;-) - I have been away....
--
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http://www.durge.org/~jon/
Simon Lane
<73h31b$nf2$1...@plug.news.pipex.net>...
>Has anybody seen Cambridge Red, the *television* channel?
<show_off>
Only from the inside ...
</show_off>
Simon Lane
>Can we have CCR back, please!?
You'll have to buy it back from Peter Dawe ...
Simon.
Dom
stev...@uk.uu.net (Steve Davies) wrote:
>Cambridge Red means nothing to me (associates it with the amateurish
>Cambridge Red community access station).
It is associated with the TV station.
>Can we have CCR back, please!?
Cambridge _Community_ Radio has the moral rights to the name CCR.
And the moral rights to the broadcast licence. However, they've
been shat on.
Tim Cutts
Olivier Suard (Public) <olivie...@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>Has anybody seen Cambridge Red, the *television* channel (available on
>channel 8 of Cambridge cable)? Now that's entertainment (well for the
>presenters anyhow)?
I thought that's what we were talking about, or is there now a
Cambridge Red radio staion as well, just to be confusing?
Tim.
Jon
: <show_off>
: Only from the inside ...
: </show_off>
You're small enough to fit inside a television?
Jon (not understanding)
Simon Lane
>Simon Lane <s...@cb1.com> wrote:
>: <show_off>
>: Only from the inside ...
>: </show_off>
>
>You're small enough to fit inside a television?
>
>Jon (not understanding)
OK - I'll give you clues - start with 10 points and deduct 1 for every clue
you need - keep scrolling to get more clues:
Clue 1) I don't have cable TV
Clue 2) In fact I don't have a TV at all
Clue 3) I've been in the news quite a lot this year, especially locally
Clue 4) Red TV has made a number of programs about local issues
Clue 5) They made one program about transport issues in Cambridge
Clue 6) They had another about trishaws
Clue 7) I used to run a trishaw business
Clue 8) It was in Cambridge
Clue 9) The trishaws were red
Clue 10) Er ... if you haven't got it by now you should probably be
Simon Lane
>P.S. Why don't you run the trishaws anymore? This is actually a serious
>question, needing only a one-line answer (not 'Ask someone else' please
>;-) - I have been away....
If I tell the story again on this group *everyone's* going to 'kill-file' me
(you may be the only person reading this as it is). However, it's all
already been said:
a) http://www.cb1.com/trishaws - especially the 'news' page,
b) http://www.dejanews.com/ - search for 'trishaws'.
The former is not very up to date, the latter is more 'ranting' in nature
...
HTH,
Simon.
Richard Meredith
>
> P.S. Why don't you run the trishaws anymore? This is actually a serious
> question, needing only a one-line answer (not 'Ask someone else' please
> ;-) - I have been away....
See clue 10 to get an impression of Simon's views regarding councillors,
and use imagination with respect towards licensing policy of said
councillors.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is cam.misc. Reality is at fault - do not adjust your newsreader.
George Hawes
Wake up at the back!!
Cambridge Red (TV) has just engineered a coup to assume control
of CCR.
A visit to the CCR web site will put the public gloss on the
change. If you follow the link to the Cambridge Red Radio 'site'
[#1] you'll get an impression of the change of style . . .
George
#1] Can a single page be called a web site, I speculate
rhetorically.
>Tim.
Simon Lane
>See clue 10 to get an impression of Simon's views regarding councillors,
>and use imagination with respect towards licensing policy of said
>councillors.
Not so much councillors as council officers. Don't get me wrong - I am very
happy that there are councillors out there representing the people of this
city. Done properly the job is demanding, time consuming, and pretty
thankless. Most of the councillors seem to be 'OK' (IMHO) - some seem very
good to me (ditto), some are less good (ditto). However, the system works
quite well, I think. If one party has rather a lot of crap people in it, it
will probably get voted out. If people get fed up enough they think about
standing themselves. I know I am not the first frustrated entrepreneur to do
this myself!
I have a great deal of respect for those councillors who do their jobs
properly, do not envy them, and hope that they do not take anything I have
to say about 'the Council' personally.
I would love to be able to speak as positively about Cambridge City Council
officers. It may be that the majority are 'OK', etc... However, my
experience (albeit rather 'narrow') has been very different. The situation
is, perhaps, best summed up by the labour councillors and ex-councillors who
talk about there being four parties in Cambridge - the three obvious ones
and the 'officers party'. What they mean (and, in fact, the ex-councillors
are often quite open about this) is that in practice the officers have a lot
of control over the policy decisions of the City Council. Some will even go
so far as to say that the Council is 'run' by the officers. This has been my
experience with the Department of Environmental Health and Protection.
Towards the end of last year Roger Coey[1] and Sharon Davidson [2] told me,
quite emphatically that (I quote):
'We're not having those things operating a taxi service. We're not having
people rolling out of the pubs into those things. If we wanted more taxis
we'd issue more hackney carriage licences.'
I can't remember which of them said which words, but they were in very clear
agreement. They do not deny saying this either [3].
My response was to say something like 'well, we'll see what the members have
to say about these points (i.e. where trishaws could go, at what times,
etc...) and moved on to avoid unuseful conflict. To cut a long story short
[4], the members *did* agree with me on most points, but the officers then
ignored most of what they had said.
I have a problem with the officer party - I can't vote them out! However, I
am using the courts [5], the complaints procedures [6] and a petition to the
next full council meeting [7] to try and get something done about this
highly undemocratic state of affairs.
Simon Lane.
[1] The Head of Environmental Health and Protection
[2] The Public Control Licensing Officer
[3] I quoted them as having said this in a complaint I made earlier this
year. Their response did not deny using this type of language.
[4] My website (www.cb1.com/trishaws) has (not very up to date)
information. There is detailed information in posts entitled 'DEHP
Maladministration' and 'Trishaws - again! (long)' made to cam.misc - you can
find there with the (ever useful) Dejanews (www.dejanews.com).
[5] I have a case going 'up' to the Lords this week. It should come 'down'
again two weeks from then. I'll then know if they are prepared to hear the
case fully.
[6] So far I have been using the Council's own internal ombudsman service.
If she can't or won't sort things out I'll go to the (external) Local
Government Ombudsman. I am trying to keep an open mind as to how effective
these are likely to be ...
[7] I handed in a 506 signature petition yesterday. This buys me 5 minutes
to speak at the next full Cambridge City Council meeting. Unless, of course,
they (officers again) find some reason why I shouldn't be allowed to present
it (this is not uncommon).
Dom
>>question, needing only a one-line answer (not 'Ask someone else' please
>>;-) - I have been away....
>
The word "file" is superfluous.
HTH, HAND, etc..
Jon
: If I tell the story again on this group *everyone's* going to 'kill-file' me
: (you may be the only person reading this as it is). However, it's all
: already been said:
Ah....*all becomes clear*
I won't comment on cam.misc.
Jon
James Brown
> You're happy with the 5 channels you get terrestrialy?
You can get 5 in Cambridge? I haven't been able to tune to channel 4 and a
half ever since it launched.
--James Brown
> : Clue 2) In fact I don't have a TV at all
> You're NOT happy with 5 channels you get terrestrialy then...
> : Clue 3) I've been in the news quite a lot this year, especially locally
> You're a local 'personality' in the vein of Snowy Farr?
> : Clue 4) Red TV has made a number of programs about local issues
> They interviewed you lots about the mice you have running all over you?
> : Clue 5) They made one program about transport issues in Cambridge
> You give people piggyback rides for charity?
> : Clue 6) They had another about trishaws
> Are you the guy who ran the Trishaw company?
> : Clue 7) I used to run a trishaw business
> Yes you ARE....
> : Clue 8) It was in Cambridge
> Cool. I was thinking about applying for a job in the summer once, as I
> used to be a courier and knew my way around the place, hence.
> : Clue 9) The trishaws were red
> I like red.
> : Clue 10) Er ... if you haven't got it by now you should probably be
> : considering a career in local government!
> I'm running for Mayor....
> Er...I've forgotten what I was supposed to be guessing now....*DUH*...
> Umm...
> You were on TV lots cos of the trishaw thing.
> Jon
> P.S. Why don't you run the trishaws anymore? This is actually a serious
> question, needing only a one-line answer (not 'Ask someone else' please
> ;-) - I have been away....
--
Jimbo
Jon
: You can get 5 in Cambridge? I haven't been able to tune to channel 4 and a
: half ever since it launched.
We get a very poor 5 signal in Willingham.
Richard Meredith
ji...@inkvine.wincoll.ac.uk (James Brown) wrote:
> Jon <j...@durge.org> wrote:
>
> > You're happy with the 5 channels you get terrestrialy?
>
> You can get 5 in Cambridge? I haven't been able to tune to channel 4
> and a
> half ever since it launched.
AIUI although it's on the Sandy Heath transmitter it's not broadcast in
the Cambridge direction to avoid interfering with the radiotelescopes.
I have heard there is to ba a repeater on the Comberton radio mast
sometime, which is past the radiotelescopes so won't interfere with them,
but when that might happen I have no idea and won't help those between
Sandy and Comberton.
Nick Smith
>sometime, which is past the radiotelescopes so won't interfere with them,
>but when that might happen I have no idea and won't help those between
>Sandy and Comberton.
>
Here's a copy of a letter I recieved from channel 5 ref. Cambridge
reception -
As you are already aware plans have been made to transmit Channel 5 from
Madingley in order to improve reception for Cambridge residents.However,
the
original date for our launch (mid-October) has been delayed as we are
waiting
for frequency clearance from the Belgians. Unfortunately a new date has
yet to
be decided.
When we do go into service you can find us by tuning in to channel 34.
Thank you for the interest you have shown in Channel 5. I hope that this
answers your query and that we will be able to welcome you as a viewer
in the
near future.
Yours sincerely,
Channel 5 Engineering Services
Nick
-
nick....@smickniff.freeserve.co.uk
nick....@zetnet.co.uk
Brian Watson
>James Brown <ji...@inkvine.wincoll.ac.uk> wrote:
>: You can get 5 in Cambridge? I haven't been able to tune to channel 4 and
a
>: half ever since it launched.
>
Our house is on the High Street in Sutton and we usually get it well, but it
is still known in the family as The Land Where It Always Snows as, to start
with, we were tuned to the weaker of the two frequencies on which it is
available in this area.
Had I known this posting was going to turn up today, I'd have got precise
tuning information from the video repair man yesterday<g>. Channels 95-ish
and 99-ish sound familiar, but the point is that trying away from your usual
tuning frequencies might locate a stronger signal, especially in the city.
--
Brian
Brian Watson
>Here's a copy of a letter I received from channel 5 ref. Cambridge
>reception -
>
>
> As you are already aware plans have been made to transmit Channel 5
from
> Madingley in order to improve reception for Cambridge
residents.However,
>the
> original date for our launch (mid-October) has been delayed as we are
>waiting
> for frequency clearance from the Belgians..
Channel 5 may have some crappy programs, but you can't fault their sense of
humour.
--
Brian
Alastair France
Cambridge) comes from a transmitter somewhere near Stowmarket. Unfortunately
it's nowhere near Sandy Heath, which is where everything else comes from.
I get a usable (but not desparately good - although accurate enough for
teletext reception) signal from Stowmarket on Ch. 35 (ISTR) although I doubt
if the signal strength / lie of the land will make that any good in the
centre of Cambridge unless you point an antenna straight at it...
--
Alastair France
afr...@stet-os.demon.co.uk
James Brown
Studio? Not the TV studios, but the cafe that is being promoted at
www.redtv.co.uk at the moment. Aparently we'll be able to experience red
TV, red radio and a red cafe like the Power FM cafe in Southampton.
Is there anything else that will shortly be turning red?
--James Brown
Ian Stevens
<ji...@inkvine.wincoll.ac.uk> writes
ex-Howard Mallett ? Centre.
--
Ian Stevens, Cambridge, UK
Email: ia...@stevcam.demon.co.uk
charle...@my-dejanews.com
Yep, that's the old Howard Mallett - hidden under a lot of new smoked glass
but still the same concrete & glass shed. I cycle past it most mornings and
it's still really sad to see a venue which was originally a community
resource turning gradually into something else. I remember rehearsing &
training there on a regular basis - and we even held two Cambridge Juggling
Conventions at the centre. AFAIK the County Council sold it off because they
were skint.
Having heard that Cambridge Red TV sometimes have trouble getting enough
viewers so that they can run their phone-in video game (which I think is still
on), I wonder how exactly they're going to fill up the Mallett?
Charlie
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James Brown
> Having heard that Cambridge Red TV sometimes have trouble getting enough
> viewers so that they can run their phone-in video game (which I think is still
> on), I wonder how exactly they're going to fill up the Mallett?
Their webpage lists their schedule, and the phone-in video show looks
quite long, so they probably have to fake it. Desperation for ideas to
fill up the airwaves has come in the form of the Red Interlude, a half
hour programme which is simply a live feed from one of the city centre
CCTV cameras.
--James Brown
Toby Speight
0> In <URL:news:743u4d$4e$1...@inkvine.wincoll.ac.uk>, James wrote:
James> Desperation for ideas to fill up the airwaves has come in the
James> form of the Red Interlude, a half hour programme which is
James> simply a live feed from one of the city centre CCTV cameras.
Are you sure it's live? I once left the box on Red for half an hour
while I was cooking; it showed the rail station all through that time,
but in the daylight (it was dark outside at the time). I conclude
then, either that it's recorded, or that I was watching a repeat(!).
[I had no idea that it was a named programme, though - I assumed it
was simply a novel alternative to showing a test-card or a "Sorry
we've buggered the kit, we'll fix it soon" notice.]
Mark Carroll
James Brown <ji...@inkvine.wincoll.ac.uk> wrote:
(snip)
>quite long, so they probably have to fake it. Desperation for ideas to
>fill up the airwaves has come in the form of the Red Interlude, a half
>hour programme which is simply a live feed from one of the city centre
>CCTV cameras.
Is it live? It's always been recorded when I've watched.
I wish I had the time - I'd try to come up with programme ideas and
become a local celebrity. (-:
-- Mark
ke...@citrix.com
If you knew when it was recorded, and from which camera, you could put
on your own programme without consulting Red. Just stand in the right
place at the right time. To get around the lack-of-sound situation,
you could use the technique employed by Bob Dylan in Subterranian
Blues.
Keir
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Dom
ma...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Mark Carroll) wrote:
>Is it live? It's always been recorded when I've watched.
You think they're stoopid? If it was live there'd be
people down there in a trice waving placards saying
"Oi! Give us back our community radio licence".
Shuck
>If you knew when it was recorded, and from which camera, you could put
>on your own programme without consulting Red. Just stand in the right
>place at the right time. To get around the lack-of-sound situation,
>you could use the technique employed by Bob Dylan in Subterranian
>Blues.
If you wanted to make your own programme, I'm sure Cambridge Red would
be glad to help you. They're always going on about "having your say".
It can't be any worse than the **** they have already.
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Dom
sh...@wolf.org.uk (Shuck) wrote:
>If you wanted to make your own programme, I'm sure Cambridge Red would
>be glad to help you. They're always going on about "having your say".
>It can't be any worse than the **** they have already.
Okey-dokey, I think I'll slap together "Whatever happened to Cambridge
Community Radio?", that's sure to go down a storm.
Paul Oldham
> ke...@citrix.com wrote:
>
> >If you knew when it was recorded, and from which camera, you could put
> >on your own programme without consulting Red. Just stand in the right
> >place at the right time. To get around the lack-of-sound situation,
> >you could use the technique employed by Bob Dylan in Subterranian
> >Blues.
>
> If you wanted to make your own programme, I'm sure Cambridge Red would
> be glad to help you. They're always going on about "having your say".
> It can't be any worse than the **** they have already.
Hello, and welcome to the cam.misc show ...
--
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cam.* FAQ is at http://www.the-hug.demon.co.uk/paul/camfaq.html
Olivier Suard (Public)
>Are you sure it's live? I once left the box on Red for half an hour
>while I was cooking; it showed the rail station all through that time,
>but in the daylight (it was dark outside at the time).
I believe the only live programmes are on during the week between 5pm and
8pm (a "show" called imaginatively 528), and from 8.30pm to 11pm/12pm. The
rest of the time, including week-ends it's all recorded (repeated) stuff.
The train thing (yawn) is usually on between 8pm and 8.30pm (aaaah, the
tension and suspense as the 5.45 from Kings-Cross pulls into the Cambridge
station...) .
It's possible that things on at the moment are all repeats while their move
from Cottenham is going on...
If you are really desperate try: http://www.redtv.co.uk/schedule.html
BTW, I have seen one of the RedTV presenters (Liz Fraser) a couple of times
at the Abbey Pool. Does that qualify as a claim to fame? ;-)
Olivier
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Diana Galletly
>at the Abbey Pool. Does that qualify as a claim to fame? ;-)
No, she's a tosspot.
--
+ Diana Galletly <dag...@eng.cam.ac.uk> <gall...@mat.ensmp.fr> +
+ WWW: http://earthquake.eng.cam.ac.uk/~galletly +
Ian Stevens
>BTW, I have seen one of the RedTV presenters (Liz Fraser) a couple of times
>at the Abbey Pool. Does that qualify as a claim to fame? ;-)
Mark Carroll
Viewing figures would probably go up, though! (-:
-- Mark
Olivier Suard (Public)
Clearly not.
Olivier
---
ke...@citrix.com
> In article <36692910...@news.dial.pipex.com>, sh...@wolf.org.uk (Shuck)
> growled:
>
> > ke...@citrix.com wrote:
> >
> > >If you knew when it was recorded, and from which camera, you could put
> > >on your own programme without consulting Red. Just stand in the right
> > >place at the right time. To get around the lack-of-sound situation,
> > >you could use the technique employed by Bob Dylan in Subterranian
> > >Blues.
> >
> > If you wanted to make your own programme, I'm sure Cambridge Red would
> > be glad to help you. They're always going on about "having your say".
> > It can't be any worse than the **** they have already.
>
> Hello, and welcome to the cam.misc show ...
>
First up is our game show, where contestants are asked to talk on any
topic they like - but if they make a grammatical or factual error we
hit the gong, and the next contestant comes on. The one who lasts the
longest wins the prize - a framed copy of the cam.misc FAQ. Now isn't
that a lovely prize?
And our first contestant is ...
Keir
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<74c50b$obq$1...@plug.news.pipex.net>...
>
> BTW, I have seen one of the RedTV presenters (Liz Fraser) a couple of
times
> at the Abbey Pool. Does that qualify as a claim to fame? ;-)
>
Is there anyone that lives in Cambridge that hasn't spotted her somewhere
within the city boundaries (Well, I've seen here twice on Jesus Green and a
couple of other times in various parts of the city) ? She certainly seems
to get around. Seeing Rory what's-his-face and saying "Hi!" to him, twice,
now that's a claim to fame.
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Paul Oldham
Hill) growled:
> Seeing Rory what's-his-face and saying "Hi!" to him, twice,
McGrath isn't it?
> now that's a claim to fame.
Not really. The last three times I've been into the Free Press he's been
there. In fact I was starting to suspect he lived on the premises ;-)
c.st...@lancaster.ac.uk
> (Scott Hill) growled:
> > Seeing Rory what's-his-face and saying "Hi!" to him, twice,
> McGrath isn't it?
> > now that's a claim to fame.
> Not really. The last three times I've been into the Free Press he's been
> there. In fact I was starting to suspect he lived on the premises ;-)
I thought he lived above the Co-op in Newnham. He never seems to be out of the
place.
Chris
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Audrey Tan
> pa...@the-hug.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > (Scott Hill) growled:
> > > Seeing Rory what's-his-face and saying "Hi!" to him, twice,
> > McGrath isn't it?
> > > now that's a claim to fame.
> > Not really. The last three times I've been into the Free Press he's been
> > there. In fact I was starting to suspect he lived on the premises ;-)
>
> I thought he lived above the Co-op in Newnham. He never seems to be out of the
> place.
>
> Chris
Sorry guys, you're both wrong. He hangs out at Cambridge Railway
Station, often on Saturday mornings.
Audrey.
Paul Oldham
aud...@persimmon.nospam.co.uk (Audrey Tan) growled:
> c.st...@lancaster.ac.uk writes:
> > pa...@the-hug.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > > (Scott Hill) growled:
> > > > Seeing Rory what's-his-face and saying "Hi!" to him, twice,
> > > McGrath isn't it?
> > > > now that's a claim to fame.
> > > Not really. The last three times I've been into the Free Press he's
> > > been there. In fact I was starting to suspect he lived on the premises
> >
> > I thought he lived above the Co-op in Newnham. He never seems to be out
> > of the place.
>
> Sorry guys, you're both wrong. He hangs out at Cambridge Railway
> Station, often on Saturday mornings.
You know, if I was McGrath and reading this, I'd be getting pretty paranoid
by now. Stalked by a newsgroup - the new Internet crime ;-)
Dom
[Rory McGrath]
>I thought he lived above the Co-op in Newnham. He never seems to be out of the
>place.
Err, no, more like the area bounded by Mill Road, East Road and Coldham's
Lane, which I think is vague enough to maintain respect for the guy's
privacy. As for pubs, it'd be easier to make a list of pubs he hasn't
been seen in.
Dom, who isn't going to say "hi" until introduced.
Jon
: Sorry guys, you're both wrong. He hangs out at Cambridge Railway
: Station, often on Saturday mornings.
Well I saw him outside this primary school.......what? Lawyers? Where??
ARGH!
*runs*
Jon
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Cindy Wells
>
> You know, if I was McGrath and reading this, I'd be getting pretty paranoid
> by now. Stalked by a newsgroup - the new Internet crime ;-)
Oh I don't know, it probably makes a pleasant change from being
stalked by Viz.
Cindy
Colin Rosenstiel
pa...@the-hug.demon.co.uk (Paul Oldham) wrote:
> In article <01be21e6$dae6b520$8c00a8c0@shindo>, sc...@ddlinks.co.uk
> (Scott Hill) growled:
>
> > Seeing Rory what's-his-face and saying "Hi!" to him, twice,
>
> McGrath isn't it?
>
> > now that's a claim to fame.
>
> Not really. The last three times I've been into the Free Press he's
> been there. In fact I was starting to suspect he lived on the premises
> ;-)
He's definitely a regular.
Colin Rosenstiel
Roland Perry
>I thought he lived above the Co-op in Newnham.
Close by, I think.
--
Roland Perry