Michael Higginbottom

The most incredible day! On cloud 9 and just replaying the entirety of yesterday in my head non stop! I owe so much to @samaritans, a charity massively close to my heart and honoured to raise as much money as possible for such a good cause!

Here are the most FASCINATING facts I could find about Mexico: 1. Mexico is so huge it’s hard to comprehend. You can fit 30 European countries in Mexico and still have room to spare

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A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 5000) Tuesday 5th December 2023. So here it is - my final picture of uninterrupted daily photographs of Cambridge - 5,000 consecutive posts over 13 years. I’m sure you’ll forgive the fact that it wasn’t taken today but a week ago today when the full moon eased itself between the turrets of an illuminated King’s College Chapel. I knew the moment I pressed the shutter that I wanted it to be the last photograph of my daily pictures not just because this frame is undoubtedly the most recognisable view in Cambridge but because for me the full moon symbolises a moment of release and completion and a time to sit in the fullness of life and feel grateful for my blessings. The full moon is also associated with madness, of which I must have had a portion to have stuck with this for so long! I’d like to thank you all for your likes, comments and stories along the way - you have made A Cambridge Diary a heartwarming community and a place to share memories with Cambridge folk both from the town and the university. Most of all I’d like to thank everyone who has appeared in my pictures over the past thirteen years: the bikers, bowlers and buskers; the carpenters, choristers, clothiers and constables; the dancers, diners and dog-walkers; the entertainers and extras; the gardeners and graduates; the kayakers; the lecturers and lingerie models; the painters, parents, pensioners, porters, praelectors, proctors, professors and punters; the readers, revellers, rowers and runners; the scaffolders, scullers, singers, skateboarders, soldiers, stonemasons, strollers, students and swimmers; the tourists and touts; the walkers and workers. I’d also like to thank the cats, dogs, ducks, rabbits, squirrels and swans, and Queen Elizabeth I and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. To you all, my sincere thanks. Whilst this is my final daily picture it doesn’t mean the end of A Cambridge Diary as I’ll still be posting my pictures from five and ten years ago and I’m sure there will be the occasional new picture popping up now and then - just not every day. Oh, and I still have to walk home don’t I? Love to all Martin

🚨INTRODUCING THE 2023 COHORT🚨 We are thrilled to unveil a new cohort for @TEDTalks The #AudaciousProject. 10 ideas. $1 billion in philanthropic support. @restoreforward @Upstream_USA @igisci @ThinkOf_Us @Camfed @Canopyplanet @jan_sahas @GlobalFishWatch @CleanSlate_Init

We are thrilled to join @TedTalks #AudaciousProject! Our big idea, led by a Sisterhood of young women once excluded from education, aims to educate the most marginalized girls & support them into leadership roles. Learn more camfed.org/audacious @TheAudaciousPrj

@Mrs_JRoutledge Very on brand 👏 It’s the sort of thing I’d send you if I saw it in the wild🤶

11 years ago today Keep checking in on your friends Keep talking #GarySpeed

@Joanna__Hardy How very @dannywallace

My favourite Sunday hobby is reading the notices in the London Review of Books and, hoo boy, what on EARTH is going on here:

As CAMFED Association members, making the world a better place is our goal and together, we are making a difference in our communities. Images from CAMA activities to mark International Youth Day. #IYD2022 #youngwomenleadingchange

93 years young & Margaret Carmichael just completed the Etihad stadium abseil along with daughter Helen & granddaughter Kate. (Video thread below) Margaret inspires us to live life to the fullest & has raised £2,000 for City in the Community! 💙⚽️🌟 Link: justgiving.com/fundraising/be…

Margaret Carmichael’s a 93-year-old abseiler! She lowered herself down the side of @ManCity’s Etihad Stadium to raise thousands of pounds for @citctweets and their youth mental health programme. Go Margaret!

Such a great day! Wonderful support from friends and family and city ppl looked after us so well. I’m so proud of my mum and daughter 💙💙 #bemoremargaret

On this day 24 years ago 400+ of us took the leap-agreed to be there for each other & to pay it forward-Today we are 208 000 strong & counting-Happy Birthday to us my amazing sisters 🥳💗We're the @Camfed Association🙌🏿 #GirlsEducation, #leadership & our Global #Sisterhood! 🎉*

I love my family💙

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Don't miss these #ThursdayThoughts from Addlight, a secondary student & future leader in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 She says: ‘#Education is a milestone for us to achieve our dreams!’ ✨ RT to spread her important message 📢 camfed.org/addlight/