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As noted last year, my
friends have reached the age when babies appear at their New
Year’s parties. This year Jo hosted two: Nathaniel is now a
Methuselah of fourteen months compared to Penny and Jason’s
Eleanor’s four.
The Festival of the New Calendar is a great antidote to the
religious winter holidays. Debriefing one another about their
Christmas encounters with family acts as a fine ice-breaker.
When that palls we can also compare notes about The Two
Towers. Is it just me, or has this winter had more
summer blockbuster films than summer had?
Pictures
by Jenni! Quick off the mark!
We thought we would go visit Habitat, which is down
Botley
Road. On the way we popped in to the Oxford Botanical
Garden, only to discover it half-flooded and frozen over!
Trundling through town and over the bridges we eventually
discovered that Botley Road itself was impassable on foot
without wellington boots, being more than ankle deep even on the
pavements. We turned back and had tea at Mark’s and
he showed us a reprehensible video game with a very impressive
simulation of real London locations in it. As we left to go
home we noticed the waters had risen another couple of
centimetres...
People who know him may be interested to hear Jamie
Lokier has (a) fresh internet access,
(b) clippers, and, consequently (c) almost no hair.
My former college, St Edmund Hall, has
made the news: The Daily Telegraph published an
article about the alcoholic bingeing of its students—or
rather, an inaccurate
report of an alcohol ban (as pointed out by Oxford
Student). This was picked up by Today
(and BBCi,
which claims SEH has cloisters and a front gate resembling
Queen’s?) and the Guardian:
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This Semptember we went to visit my mother
Jenny in her home in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.
I took with me my brand new camera and
took some photos from Tobermory (and the
journeys to and from).
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Sunday was our day out in London to see Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
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