Things to Do in Cambridge Over the Winter Holidays

Outside term time, most people either go home or go traveling, but Cambridge in December has some delights that those who've left are missing out on. Most people know about the snow and carol services, but we've compiled some less well-known ways to spend winter evenings around town.

Winter Lights Festival at Anglesey Abbey (Photo: National Trust)

The Best Call for Papers You'll Read All Year

Would you like your name to appear in history textbooks in four hundred years, listed among the select few who wrote for the 21st Century's Most Significant Publication from its very beginning? Do you want, like our Panda Correspondent, to receive mail from adoring fans in your pigeonhole every day? Or are you looking for newer, friendlier ways to procrastinate?

Whatever your answers, you should contribute to Whisky & Biscuits! So here is a short list of suggestions for those unsure what to submit...

Pembroke in Photographs: Mince Pies, Rowing Races & Christmas Lights

Pembroke in Photographs: Christmas BA Dinner

Pembroke Panda Review #1

This is the first of a regular column written by Richard Arnold, our Panda Correspondent. Have a panda photograph you want reviewed? Send it to akb44 [at] cam.ac.uk and we'll forward it to Richard.

Confucius once said "to look at a panda is to see the future, to look at a photo of a panda is to see the past, but to read a review of a panda is to doggy paddle in the Great Lakes of Eternity." Welcome to my reviews of photos of pandas. Like my father, and my father's father, and his father's father, and his stepfather, I have been endowed with a great gift. Beethoven could compose, Shakespeare was great at writing good, Anna Pavlova could dance... I, Richard Arnold, review photos of pandas.

A Brief History of Cooking & Eating Crickets at Pembroke

For most, fondue parties bring to mind chocolate, skewers, fruit and the 1970s... but, after Saturday, many at Pembroke might add insects to that list. You might have tried the final product, but how exactly did the GP's food spread end up including crickets rolled in chocolate? And how were they actually received?

If you don't like bugs, you'd be advised not to read the rest of this post...

Saturday Night Fondue in the GP!

As promised, Pembroke has a blog!

We have a blog! It's been named Whisky & Biscuits after the things one finds in the Graduate Parlour. Whisky & Biscuits will be updated fairly regularly with pictures from the GP and around college, updates on events and short features on the people of Pembroke! If your attention span is too short for paragraphs, we've also started a twitter account.

It'd also be awesome if you could contribute to this blog! We'd like photographs, drawings, general observations and suggestions on things that are happening, along with people willing to be interviewed/photographed. We've already got a correspondent preparing to write reviews of panda images, but it'd be great to have a range of contributors doing different things! If you have your own blog, send it to us and we'll link to it.

If you have an idea or would like us to suggest something, contact our editor, Anna (email: akb44 [at] cam.ac.uk) and you'll probably start getting gifts in your pigeonhole.