I was taking an early lunch with three student historians at the Anchor pub in Cambridge’s Silver Street. It has a superb location alongside the Bridge, with Queen’s College opposite. There’s a ground level room, and upstairs overlooking the river, and a lower level alongside the water where the punts move up and down the river. Two had the chicken Caesar salad which came in generous portions, but I contented myself with cheese covered garlic ciabatta. When dessert was offered, people were going to decline, but when the words “chocolate fudge brownie” were uttered, one gave in straight away, and two others quickly followed suit. It looked delicious with its artful strips of chocolate and little sprigs of mint. They said it tasted delicious, but I just ate the mint and enjoyed the fudge vicariously while I finished my pint of Old Speckled Hen.