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Those of you in Cambridge, and many from other cities, will be familiar with the little numbers they put on lamp posts, along with a phone number to ring to report that that lamp is out of action. The numbers on these things are sequential along each road, and usually three figures, so it suggests that somewhere in Cambridge there must be a lamp post number one.

In fact, there is, and this week I noticed it was in fact on Free School Lane, about three down from the door of the Whipple Museum. Perhaps disappointingly, it's not a full lamp post, but a lamp attached to the side of the building. It looks like it has been there for quite some years.

This week I also learned that there is in fact a post box on the way from the Jane Coston bridge over the A14 to the White Horse. But I imagine this fact will not really be of as much interest to people who haven't forgotten to post a letter on the way to work on Cowley Road but are going to the pub at lunchtime.