Thursday 17 September - quick hospital visit and long chat!

 I thought you might all like to see the view from the 10th floor of Addenbrookes that I get every time I go to E10.  The hole in the picture to the left is where the new Papworth hospital will be when it transfers to the Addenbrookes site in 2017.  Apparently the construction phase will last 32 months.
Below is the view past the massive cranes to the new settlement of Great Kneighton.  Between Addenbrookes and Great Kneighton is a new country park and also the railway line to Liverpool Street.

Apparently some of the housing at Great Kneighton has won an architect's award.  From the outside it still looks a little stark but I guess the greenery just needs to grow in. 
Looking the other way from the corridor outside E10 you get a view of the Gog Magog hills and the wind farm.
It was a really short visit to E10 this morning - all of 25 minutes.  So Andrew Gee (colleague who had popped down to see me) and I went and spent a happy hour or so over a cup of tea in the food court and had a long and wide-ranging chat (everything from PET scanning to Sheldon Cooper and a lot of stuff in between).
The rest of the day has included a nap, a walk in the sunshine, some email and now the pleasant prospect of chicken casserole and dumplings.