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Shortkly I get to find out whether the schools and colleges round here have gone back yet.

I find out in very stark terms, because the 8:05 to Cambridge is the main train for Long Road Sixth Form College. During the summer holidays it's a transport of delight, as close as any peak-hour train can be to the old British Rail advert with the leon Redbone soundtrack.
During term-time, it's bedlam.

I wonder which it'll be today?

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While I note the comments to my previous post, about how FEC's can't possibly have gone back yet:

If Cambridge Regional College isn't in session again today, then there must be an extraordinarily convincing piece of street theatre happening on Newmarket Road and around the back entrance to the Grafton, exploring the lives of loud, obnoxious teenage girls. It is a piece, incidentally, which would give much comfort to the beleaguered executives of Philip Morris and British Allied Tobacco.

[Sorry - that wasn't a very nice thing to say]

As a farewell to the summer holidays, I find my mind chewing on this story. This was a supporting item in local news last month - another few centimetres or miles per hour, and it could have been one of the biggest national news stories of the summer.