28 July 2015
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Today has mostly been taken up with transferring my design to sheets of plywood and then carving out the non-printing areas from each one. The results look like this: If you looked carefully you might spot my mistakes, like the … Continue reading
27 July 2015
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This week I’m at a summer school in Oxford learning about Japanese Woodblock Printing. So far, we’ve been given an introduction, including a demonstration of printing, and done some carving away on a practise block to get used to the … Continue reading
28 June 2015
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One of my low key ambitions was fulfilled this weekend; I got a Superman T-shirt. And, as an unexpected bonus, a BA Baracus “Crazy Fool” T-shirt. Yay for Oxford’s charity shops!
12 June 2015
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Jane and I went to the 2015 Cochrane Lecture at Green Templeton College last night to hear Professor Nicholas White speaking on Malaria control: past, present and future. It wasn’t overly technical and packed with fascinating bits of information and … Continue reading
22 April 2015
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Jane and I enjoyed a lovely meal out tonight at the Coach and Horses in Chiselhampton. We’ve driven past it plenty of times but decided to take a trip out this evening with the pub as our destination. It was … Continue reading
21 April 2015
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At last night’s home group, we had a fascinating and quite far ranging discussion about UK politics, brought into focus by the forthcoming General Election on May 7. As good discussions do, it go me thinking and one of the … Continue reading
3 February 2015
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I was rather worried last night when I came out of a housegroup meeting to find snow falling and settling on the ground. By the time I got home, it was thicker still and I had some doubts about whether … Continue reading
15 January 2015
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If I put a sound track to each blog post, this one would be easy: Jill Scott’s 2001 song Long Walk. Today I’m not in my regular office but working down at St Anne’s in Oxford on a study day … Continue reading
28 November 2014
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I discovered something vaguely frightening this week: Google has got a pretty good idea of where I am and it keeps a history of where I’ve been. If you’ve got an Android device and you use it for location-based services, … Continue reading
9 November 2014
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Technically I wasn’t at a high church service this morning (a term which is replete with meaning in ecclesiology) but I was up on the roof at St Clement’s again, checking the gutters for leaves. It wasn’t too bad up … Continue reading