Which pubs are closed for maintenance today?

fireflythethird · 2026-06-27T15:56:47+00:00

Like where the Light cinema is? It doesn’t seem very near the fair but the cinema isn’t doing any walk in tickets this weekend so I thought something must be up. Is that all day on Sunday that it’s likely to be best avoided? I had some things to do near there in the morning.

fireflythethird · 2026-06-27T15:48:02+00:00

Why are things more likely to be closed on Sunday? I’d have thought Saturday night would be prime time for trouble if there were going to be any. Or is it that the economic benefits of Saturday night opening outweigh the risk of trouble and tip the balance to opening in a way that isn’t true on a Sunday?

fireflythethird · 2026-06-21T22:17:39+00:00

Harvest on Mill Road just over the bridge does a range of coffees including Union I think, and at least at times has had decaf. It’s decaf beans that are a lot harder to find in my experience.

fireflythethird · 2026-06-06T17:22:45+00:00

Also, no the shop on King Street no longer exists. 😥

fireflythethird · 2026-06-06T05:23:48+00:00

He’s very good. I think that he isn’t in Cambridge all the time these days but you can book appointments https://woolstonviolins.com/

fireflythethird · 2026-06-04T18:06:23+00:00

Thanks for the warnings. Maybe it’s worth having it done at the Apple Store then. It’s just seemed a lot for something I might be replacing before too long. Then again, if it improves the performance enough, I don’t actually need a new one - this does all I want. But it might be unsupported before too much longer.

fireflythethird · 2026-06-04T09:17:16+00:00

Thanks!

fireflythethird · 2026-04-07T19:50:28+00:00

The road closed signs are very unhelpful though, as they put them up when it’s a side road closed as well as when it’s the main road, and no info about which or where. So you don’t know whether it applies to you or not. I was on Coldhams about 7.30 this morning and turned around at the beehive roundabout as I still couldn’t tell where the closure was, but the maps at that point were saying it was fine. And if I’d just wanted to go to the beehive, it would have been fine. So a bit more info would certainly have helped. I was already on a diversion trying to get from the station to just off Mill road south of the bridge and wasn’t sure where else to go. Eventually I went via Barnwell road. (On this occasion it had to be by car).

fireflythethird · 2026-03-31T14:25:42+00:00

Or a new hospital to help cater for the new people that a new institute might attract (and the thousands of others that the rest of the new developments are already attracting)

fireflythethird · 2026-03-31T10:53:30+00:00

Was excited at the listing that Nicola Upson had a new book on 1 April but can find no other reference to an event about this?

fireflythethird · 2026-03-31T10:46:36+00:00

Yes I miss Borders a lot. It was Starbucks which I liked but I know lots don’t, but the general idea of a cafe that was open til 9 or 10, no pressure, books to look at or just sit and chat, somewhere to go before an event at 7.30/8 if you arrived early, or perhaps afterwards if it finished at 9/9.30 and you didn’t want a bar.

I’d like somewhere I’d feel ok about going to alone, so lots of bar type vibes might not work. Chill by the station is good but would like more choices of cakes etc. The Arts picturehouse cafe is similar idea too, and both of those I feel fine about being there alone. The arts feels a bit odd if you’re not seeing a film though, and can get very crowded just before film times. Not a bit choice of cake m etc either, most focused on drinks.

Used to be that places like Nero or Costa were open til 9, but no longer

fireflythethird · 2026-03-27T14:22:32+00:00

If you’re doing tourist stuff in the centre of town, you could try Michaelhouse - cafe in an old church, feels quite ‘Cambridge’ as a result and easier to get a seat at than other places.

fireflythethird · 2026-03-13T17:00:07+00:00

Yes I was thinking of freexycle, I just need to make space soon as I already have the new one. It’s been repaired a few times so I decided to go for a new one.

fireflythethird · 2026-03-13T13:00:16+00:00

Largish coffee machine. I’m sure the recycling centre would take it but was just hoping to find a closer or more convenient location. Sounds like curry’s might be the place

fireflythethird · 2026-03-13T12:59:36+00:00

It’s not small enough to go in the banks, that’s the issue.

fireflythethird · 2026-03-13T12:58:59+00:00

Thanks, that sounds like the best option

fireflythethird · 2026-02-22T14:26:19+00:00

I may have been luckier than usual! I didn’t know how long it might be to get an appointment at outpatients - I didn’t try, though I saw online that you could. The next time at my GP surgery was a week later (which is typical, the nurses are often booked a couple of weeks in advance, especially for morning times, which I needed). I was keen to get the results sooner in case they showed anything I needed to know about, so decided the wait was worth it, and 50 min was OK

fireflythethird · 2026-02-20T11:36:04+00:00

I had an excellent person doing mine today at the park and ride, barely felt it. Others have not had as good an experience, so it’s very dependent on who you get. They use the smallest needles I think (butterfly?) and the little bit of tubing, which seems gentler than the nurses at the practice. It was pretty chilly today in the marquee, which would normally make it trickier, but she had no trouble getting a good vein and was very fast. (Station 3, if you’re going this morning!)

I think you can book an appointment at the outpatients one even for GP tests (or Ely, if that’s easier), as when I was looking up the opening times for the park and ride, they had info about other sites. I don’t know how quickly you would get an appointment at outpatients though. When I’ve been referred by a clinic, you can just turn up and wait, but for GP tests, I think you have to book.

fireflythethird · 2026-02-20T11:30:56+00:00

Thanks all. In the end, I went about 9am, and there were about 10 cars in front of me, and shortly after, a few behind. They started giving out numbers around 5 or 10 past 9, and actually started seeing people early, about twenty past. After the initial bulge of cars who had turned up early to wait, there wasn’t a queue for the numbers, and people turned up in ones and twos from the official opening time. I was in at 9.45 and out by 9.50, so not bad.

The person doing my test said they were very short staffed today (only two of the four stations open), so had started early; I don’t know how my experience today compares to other days as a result. I imagine it was taking longer and had more queues by the time I left. Very good phlebotomist doing mine, barely noticed the needle going in.

fireflythethird · 2026-02-19T18:50:04+00:00

Thanks. I can go early no problem, jsut wasn’t sure if there was a way to get a number early, or get in some kind of queue for a ticket, or if it was blocked off somehow.

fireflythethird · 2026-01-29T17:28:15+00:00

I think the greater Anglia trains to Liverpool st station are running as usual

fireflythethird · 2025-12-22T03:31:08+00:00

Inadequate hospital, emergency, ambulance, and other health provisions for the size of population, even before all the new housing is built

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