Wolfson Formal and Cycling in Black Tie

Some friends and I went along to a Wolfson formal which was a great time.

It was a drawn out affair with
1: a white wine reception
2: starters: soup
3: main meal: roast lamb (great) with some not-so-good red wine
4: some mead (it was St. David's day and he was Welsh...)
5: pudding: sponge cake with custard
6: coffee in some other room
7: back into the hall for fruit, port and muscadel

We rounded it off with a tie breaking game of pool in Wolfson's bar/pub/dance room/(well you get the idea). Felix and I won, hurrah! :) It was a great game.

Anyway the real reason for this post is not the formal it is the mode of transport to and from the formal. In true Cambridge style, black tie, with academic gown on a bike! Well, the pictures describe it best. They can be found here.

Ttfn

Mike's Choral Concert

On 2009-03-07 I attended a Choral Concert at Trinity College.

It was held in Trinity's Chapel which is beautiful with two features which were highlights for me. The first was the painting in the sanctuary depicting the Archangel Michael kicking Satan out of Heaven (I think).  The second feature is the engraved names of all the people from Trinity who died in the two World Wars.

Although the evening's focus was the brilliant Choral performance, the Brass accompaniment was really cool. My friend and house mate Michael Luke Jones was singing and it was great to be there and support him.

Here are the pics and a small video.

John's Maths Dinner

This is just a quick post to link my John's Math dinner photos on Picasa.  

It was an evening organised by the Adam's society as the Maths society's formal dinner for its constituents.  The evening started with drinks with our director of studies and then we moved on the to Senior Combination Room, which is the Fellow's private room in which part of D-Day was planned and it is usually only lit by candle light, for dinner.