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August 2024. Cambridge.

No, not Mrs RM, and not just an opportunity to stick a reference to another obscure early 80s Gary Numan hit.

Gary Numan was, famously, a machine without any DNA.

As we leave the Maypole a reminder that DNA was actually invented in Cambridge in 1953.

Here is the ACTUAL DNA being toasted by Mr Castiglione.

Such history on every corner in Cambridge, though on our visit the town was suffering from a virus which had led to the recall of all items sold by H & M in the last year.

A decade ago most tourists bought souvenir Cambridge University teddies, now it’s Man City 4 in a row footballs.

Mrs RM stopped on every corner to take arty photos of banks, so I raced ahead to the station,

inexplicably enticed into the Old Ticket Office,

a workmanlike but efficient station bar whose main crime is an inability to buy a beer on the platform side.

I reckoned I was 10 minutes clear of Mrs RM, time for a pint of Broadside.

I had 11, but that was plenty.

Unexpectedly, this was the best Broadside (NBSS 4 ) since the Hospital Arms served a pint about which the GBG wrote “It’s got claws”. I know exactly what they meant.