Writer's Block

Berlin

We note that the silver tongued Senator Barack Obama in his  presidential speech to the adoring people of Berlin did not fall into the John F. Kennedy trap. As is well known, although not to President Kennedy at the time, a Berliner is a type of pastry. Hence when the president said the never to be forgotten words Ich bein Berliner, by a simple slip of the tongue he did not say 'I am a Berliner', but 'I am a fruitcake'.  No doubt he was pleased by the cheering of the crowd.

I do hope that Senator Obama does not get too carried away with the John F. Kennedy comparisons. To only just avoid the Third World War and then get shot is probably not a very good role model.

I have been watching with interest the lack of progress on the Cambridge Central Library site. Although it is hard to see what is going on inside, it lacks the usual cheery building noises. Radio 5 Live, offensive whistles at nubile teenagers, sandwich wrappers thrown out of windows and F words were, on my last visit, all sadly lacking. There was the same silence as on all my previous visits since the Grand Arcade opened last spring. Could it be that we are just a heartbeat away from the site being flogged off to ***?

Amazingly I have finished the overhaul of our Alonah Reading Cambridge website. Everything is now off to the grandly named Webmaster, who will in due course send me a mouth watering estimate for the cost of the changes.