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Caius greatest student prank
Revealed after 50 years: The secret of the greatest-ever student prank at Gonville & Caius, revealed by the Daily Mail, back when Rob was a student there. Wonder if he knew any of them? 
Reply from Rob, off to Perth in Oz via Dubai on Emirates, tomorrow out of Birmingham Airport:
“I remember Peter Davey as a very bight student with particular interest in motor transport . Both he and Hugh Montfiore were in my year of 1955….. Hugh was a mature student who had a room inthe same courtyard as Mike Canon and I in the first year…….. Caius students at that time had a high percentage of Engineers and medics.” 
Inspired by a comment on the Daily Mail piece that MIT had done much better pranks I left a comment on my own top prank when at Christ’s College, but they weren’t interested it seems, probably rightly as it was the most ridiculous attempt by me to claim a hand in ending the Cold War! 
Born on 18 April
Jennifer and Richard have a baby boy. Congratulations too for Roger and Linda, and Nicky & Nick.
Earthquake epicenter at Market Rasen
My aunt and uncle, who live in the village of Lissington which is but a stone’s throw from Market Rasen, the epicentre of last night’s earthquake (the UK’s largest for over 20 years), reported the following via SMS:
“They ran outside as the whole house shook & everything rattled & loud ‘roar’ like train. Still no damage.” Underground rumbling..crack in driveway opened and went back together again. Took 10 seconds. All across the fields the lights were on, the whole of Lincolnshire lit up!
Leicester comedy festival
Good to be able to get in with a pre-15th Leicester Comedy Festival joke. OK, so like I phoned my mother and asked how things were etc, and she replied in kind. Then I mentioned how fantastic it was that the comedy festival was on in Leicester, starting on 8 February. And while I was expecting she might possibly say she’d enjoy visiting one of the show was she in fact said was that when the festival first started up, they came to the magistrates court to apply for a licence to sell alcohol, which of course is probably vital to the success of comedy. And that while there was debate amongst her fellow magistrates whether this was really a good idea my mother argued passionately that alcohol was vital to their success. The rest is history, as they say.
PS: This is in lieu of the accountant joke which one of Andy’s employees asked me to add to my blog last Thursday. Sorry about that you’ll just have to asked the Mexican guy with your
Congratulations are in order
Congratulations to Richard and Jennifer on the news of their baby!
Sorry Andy didn’t make it to last night’s get together; apparently he was busy with the new maths toy proto-type. Watch this space!
With the cousins in 1978ish
Me, around 1978, with 6 cousins and 1 brother. That’s my Harry Potter wand I’m holding. The two tallest ones have the highest paid jobs. So there.
Anita Roddick
Just found out Anita Roddick is dead:
Founder of the Body Shop Dame Anita Roddick has died at the age of 64.
Her family said in a statement that she suffered “a major brain haemorrhage” at 1830 BST at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex.
OK, so I was lucky enough to have met Anita just a couple of times, (once introducing her to Clare Hodges from the Alliance for Cannabis Theraputics) and even was a guest and stayed over one night which was great fun. 
I recall meeting there a guy who said his dad had been the actor in the famous Secret Lemonade Drinker TV advert for R Whites Lemonade (who had a factory in Barking, where I now live). So in celebration of Anita, here’s that advert:
“The adverts featured the actor Royce Mills, dubbed with the voice of Ross MacManus (father of Elvis Costello). MacManus wrote the song, with his son providing the backing vocals.”
The Cotton Mill, Leicester
Looks like my purchase of an apartment at the Cotton Mill, King St, Leicester is going ahead with the help of Shirley. And the good news is that the council are planning to turn the street outside into a pedestrainised area – to be completed by August 2008..
Jess’s birthday
And on a lighter note, Jess turned eight, see a pic to prove it featuring ‘Bratz’.
