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*yawn* Perhaps I shouldn't have got up and gone running this morning. I wasn't actually having trouble sleeping, but some masochistic aspect of me had decided it quite enjoyed running and would actually like to do more of it. Unfortunately it used up time I might otherwise plausibly have spent asleep, so I'm now somewhat sleepy.

Also I've somehow nadgered the scissors on my Leatherman. The spring that forces them back open after each cut has either broken or has debris clogging it. I'm inclined to suspect the latter, since they broke during the process of cutting a Tubigrip to size and so I suspect bits of thread have got wedged in the thing somehow. I can't see any way to take it apart and clean it, unfortunately. Hmmm.

I seem to have accidentally caused the ARM software group's roving Thursday pub trip to visit the Carlton this evening, which means I'm likely to actually coincide with it for once. Apparently there was some difficulty in getting people to accept this choice of pub because someone thought it was in Arbury and therefore dangerous to go near. I boggle.

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because someone thought it was in Arbury and therefore dangerous to go near

Well, by Cambridge lore, Arbury is supposed to be one of the scary place ins Cambridge - mainly due to the Kingsway flats and back in the days of yore when the locals from Arbury (when it was still a village) would walk into Cambridge and beat up the students.

Personally I've not seen that much to be worried about in the 5-6 years that we've been living in Arbury.

More to the point, the Carlton is barely even in Arbury. Everything on the Metcalfe Road side of Carlton Way counts as West Chesterton, according to a map I eventually managed to google up. I suppose you could argue that since the Carlton Arms is on the opposite side it's in Arbury, but it's not very in Arbury even if so :-)

(Actually I was surprised to find even that - since I get West Chesterton spam through my letterbox, I was expecting the whole of Gilbert Road to be West Chesterton. Goes to show.)

The Carlton was legendary for a year or several as the pub where someone got shot - that was before Terri and Jethro took it over, I think.

The Carlton Arms had a reputation for being a very dodgy pub for quite a few years. Certainly when we first moved into the area we wouldn't have been stupid enough to go into the Carlton.

It was closed down a year or so ago after a firearms incident which had many police, dog units, an armed response unit and the police helicopter in attendance.

Then Terri & Jehro took it over and things got better; I guess that it just goes to show how much the people running a pub can effect it.

That depends on how you define 'Arbury'. Pretty much the whole area between Histon Road and Milton Road (excepting roads that you can only access from HR or MR) is Arbury by the loosest definition, and the tightest is the council Ward of Arbury.

Hmm, we're (just) in Arbury by council ward definition, and I don't think any other definition would extend that far south, so I don't think it's really the tightest.

We've noticed that "real" residents call it the Arbury.

The council ward also tends to move around a bit, making it a somewhat poor choice of definition. I don't think the (bus company definition) Arbury circle is in (boundaries comission definition) Arbury at all...

Anyway, when I last looked at crime statistics, Kings Hedges came in worse than Arbury...so there :P

I don't like Arbury late at night - when I've been travelling to parties etc there I have been approached - mostly by kindly old men walking their dogs making sure I was OK and if I knew where I was going and wanted someone to walk along with me to keep me out of danger...
A lot of not-very-nice people live there, but as someone once pointed out about an area of Chesterton where I lived for a while, 'you don't shit where you live', so if criminals live round there, you're probably safer there as they're unlikely to burgle the house next door.