The sky isn't falling, but it made a better line than the actual one.

[chess]

I've just realised that I have a sath appearing on Saturday, and from 1:30pm to about 4pm I have nothing in particular to do with her. I'll be picking her up from the train station at about 1:30pm (which seems walkable from New Museums, although no doubt it'll be merrily raining) and can go just about anywhere from that, really. Any suggestions / offers?

(I felt a lot calmer / happier when I got in today; I still don't feel anywhere near as lousy as I did this morning, although I suspect I'm going to sit and spod all evening and then go to sleep early, which is a bad idea at the moment because I've got cold-ish-ness again; that in itself makes me reluctant to actually go do anything, though. I don't feel like inflicting myself on people at the moment.)

Comments

[jaq.livejournal.com]

There's plenty of pubs between there and, er, where-ever.

[chess]

Yes, but pubs without people-I-know in them are just nasty and smokey and generally no good.

[jaq.livejournal.com]

But you know Sath.

[chess]

There are nicer places available for sitting and talking to Sath, though.

[jaq.livejournal.com]

I would threaten to descend on you, but I have other plans.

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

The Free Press, if you can find it, is neither nasty nor smokey, and is in fact very good all round. There are a couple of other nice pubs near-ish the station, too.

I have a feeling I'm going to be in Hatfield then, though, so I can't really offer to be a person-you-know very easily. How far away is Hatfield, anyway?

[chess]

You're going to be in *Hatfield*?

(For reference: Sath is coming *from* Hatfield. That's what makes it quite so strange. It's about an hour on a train; the 12:27, which is what Sath's getting, gets in at 13:25, obviously.)

Also, I'm scared of pubs.

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

Yes - jiu jitsu grading was going to be in Cambridge, then moved to Hatfield for some reason or other. I have no idea how long it will last; I'm probably going to miss PoohSoc. Which is slightly vexing; I'm ever so curious about this Earth thing called "Sath".

Remember, the pubs are more scared of you than you are of them.

[chess]

The Sath is being taken to Owen's party, due to Naath also missing Poohsoc, so it might be possible for you to meet her there. She's staying over now (in Naath's room), so Sunday morning is also an option (my church is meeting this Sunday evening instead of morning, which means I have more time to wander around with Sath).

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

Have you thought of the Botanical Gardens? They're in between the New Museums and the train stations and are supposed to look great at any point of the year (although I've only been in summer myself). They have a tea shop for sitting down and talking and a new miles of paths to walk and talk along.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

The botanics are nice, but then Cambridge is very easy to keep people happy in if it's not raining. If it is raining I would normally take friends back to my room and feed them tea / hot chocolate because I Hate Pubs (being too expensive and not private enough)

But I know nothing about what your friend is like. Nice interesting dry things in Cambridge include the museums (especially the sidgewick geology museum and the arch and anth museum, which have respectively pretty rocks and a dinosaur, and a three story high totem pole) Oh, and the Wren libray is so cool, with original principia and winnie the pooh and some really shiney illuminated manuscirpts, but it has weird opening times you'd have to check. It may be that this weekend is fairburns or clare novices, and watching boaties prat about is always fun, especially for non cambridge people to laugh at us, or you could go punting. Although it's a bit cold. And will probably rain. Just wandering round colleges talking is nice, if the weather's good enough.

[naath.livejournal.com]

There are museums to look at... and architecture! and um, tourists to bait. Possibly punting (if it doesn't rain)... on second thoughts, can you punt?