Christmas Eve in Cambridge

For many years one of the Christmas traditions in our house has been for Margaret to meet with friends and spend half the day in the queue for the Festival of Nine Readings and Carols and King's College Chapel.  Every year this lovely service is broadcast live around the world.

This year Kings have changed the arrangements, rather than allow people to queue up throughout the morning for their place in the chapel they have decided that they would give out tickets starting at 7.30 am and then people could go away and return at 1.30 pm to take their place in the chapel. To cut a long story short we arrived at 7.30 am to find a queue that stretched the length on Kings Parade and half-way down Silver Street and already two to three hundred people more than could hope to get a place...

Very disappointing...

No doubt Kings have a very convincing argument to support what they have done, I'll be interested to hear it.

I walked down to the bridge in Silver Street and took this photo... The Mathematical Bridge is the popular name of a wooden footbridge in the southwest of central Cambridge, United Kingdom. It bridges the River Cam about one hundred feet northwest of Silver Street Bridge and connects two parts of Queens' College.

The rest of the day has been taken up with preps for tomorrow...