I had a very relaxed day on Saturday with
Also they did a thing that I didn't even know was possible, which was to hire one of those soft play places for the evening so that adults could play on the equipment. In fact we spent quite a lot of the time just chatting and eating
Sunday we got up slowly and did some gentle tourism with SA, basically just wandering into Cambridge and looking at the pretty things. We met up with
Monday was another lovely slow morning with lots of chatting, and SA and I took a bus to the centre of town so we could explore stuff south of the market and Kings Parade without having to re-walk the same ground we'd already covered. We found SA some cute 50s style dresses in a style which really suits her (and me) but isn't readily available in Sweden as very few Swedish people are short and curvy like us two with our shared Ashkenazi heritage, and had lunch in the newly opened branch of Wasabi. Most museums, including the Fitz, are shut on Mondays, but we visited the Sedgwick museum and looked at fossils and pretty rocks (and thought of
Then we acquired picnic food and participated in the very Cambridgey experience of outdoor Shakespeare.
I was moderately pleased to see that even though it's a comedy about cuckolds and infidelity, it was surprisingly non-sexist; sympathy was very much with the Merry Wives and not with the jealous husband or the philanderer trying to seduce them. Also there are a lot of fat jokes about Falstaff, but somehow they seemed much kinder than most modern anti-fat comedy. It wasn't about how Falstaff is fat because he's disgusting or lazy, it was about how he's fat because he likes high living. The characters of Sir Hugh and Dr Caius were kind of cringe-makingly racist, though. Which in turn led to a good discussion on the way home about how to deal with Shakespeare and other classic literature which doesn't reflect modern values, and also presentism and the pitfall of pretending that "we" are so much better than Shakespeare's audiences.
Tuesday SA and I met up with
I do in fact have some opinions I'll post about soon, but I'm off on another adventure this weekend, going to a music festival. Which is really not the kind of thing I do, but I am pretending to be a much cooler person than I really am...
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