Time in Cambridge

It was a joy to spend some quality time in one of my favourite places on Monday and find myself in perhaps one of the most famous supervision rooms in Cambridge

I took a group of students to Cambridge for the day, primarily to look round a few colleges and get a feel for the town which seems to have become the economic hub for the whole of East Anglia judging from the property prices and the number of construction cranes. We visited St Catherine’s, Caius and then spent a wonderful hour at King’s which allowed the opportunity to meet up again with the legendary Jim Trevithick who gave the group a guided tour of the Senior Common Room and some of the college’s artefacts linked to John Maynard Keynes. The links between my own school and King’s where Keynes is concerned are well known. I popped into Heffers (gradually being run down by the people at Blackwells) and managed to get a copy of the new book on Keynes by Robert Cord - it is particularly good on putting across his distinctive contributions not just to economics but also to the arts in this country. Jim Trevithicks’s rooms from front and back must have some of the most stunning views in the whole of Cambridge. It was a rare delight.