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We were at the Henry Ford museum in Michigan today, somewhere I haven't been for a few years, and I was impressed again at the sheer size of some of the trains which form one section of the exhibits. This, for example, is no ordinary snowplough:

It has extra gill-like flaps on the side which can open up allowing it to plough a path 16 feet wide. It was normally pushed by two locomotives. The gaping jaws are almost scary if you're standing beside them.

But the most-photographed exhibit in the museum is the Allegheny locomotive. These were the most powerful engines ever made and are very big and very black. It feels more like part of a Gotham City set than something from my normal experience of railways.

It's actually rather difficult to photograph in a restricted space, so I switched my little camera into movie mode.

Last month, my friends Gerry & Tessa took a picture of me working outside a Cambridge café. I knew nothing about it until our Christmas card from them arrived!

In John's garden.

Kings Parade, Cambridge

I'm impressed with the agility of the neighbour's cat in scaling our garden fence. This is the view from the top...

There was an amazing light against a dark sky over Cambridge on Friday.

Around the CamVine/Ndiyo office yesterday.

St Columba's church cast a splendid shadow on the side of the new John Lewis building in Cambridge this morning.

One of the reasons I think I'm so lucky to live here is that our walk into the town centre this morning incorporated feeding ducks, watching kayakers, drinking lattés, grocery and shoe shopping, and took in both the view above and the one below.