21 May 2011
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This is one of my contributions for St Clement’s entry in this year’s Oxfordshire Artweeks event. I sketched the pattern on an old piece of plywood (the other side is the 1970s style faux-wood cladding that came with my sitting … Continue reading
18 April 2011
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Saturday’s gig at Keble College was interesting.We were positioned in the “minstrels’ gallery”, towards the top right of the photo (not one of my images but available via a Creative Commons licence on Flickr). That posed two challenges: The gallery … Continue reading
9 April 2011
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I popped down to Cowley Library this morning to drop back some books that were due back and, inevitably, to borrow some more. Although it is my most local library, I more often visit the Headington branch, which is a … Continue reading
3 March 2011
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I was very impressed with Karma, a Bangladeshi restaurant in Cowley. Jane and I walked down there for dinner this evening. We found it clean and spacious, with polite service and delicious food, immaculately presented. Definitely one to revisit.
15 February 2011
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Last week Jane had a course down in town and took the bus. It crawled along the route and her final door-to-door journey time was well over an hour. She had another course at the same place yesterday morning and … Continue reading
21 January 2011
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Sarah Zielinski, writing on the Smithsonian blog, argued that life without left turns would be much safer. Converting that to the UK road system would mean dropping right turns instead. It certainly avoids having to wait for gaps in two … Continue reading
14 January 2011
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According to the Oxford Mail, villagers in Horspath are strongly against a wind turbine being erected nearby. In my opinion, what a shame. I don’t know what size the proposed turbine was but the ones I saw at Delabole in … Continue reading
11 January 2011
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I took the afternoon off yesterday to get the exhaust on our car fixed. It had been sounding a bit suspicious for a while but, when we took it down on Saturday, it turned out we needed to wait for … Continue reading
21 December 2010
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Jane and I went to Headington Baptist Church last night to see Riding Lights perform Nearly the Goat, a wonderfully contrived version of the nativity story in which the eponymous goat, Nearly, takes a starring role. The production only features … Continue reading
19 December 2010
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I was up in the loft yesterday and added a new feature that lets us monitor if we left the light on. I managed to create it in less than a second (unlike the insulation and boarding project, which is … Continue reading