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Rub a dub dub
An ancient family story describes a domestic science lesson (that's what they were called then). A teacher told an unenthusiastic child…
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In the garden today...
...was this lovely comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album). Unlike many other butterflies, it stayed put when I started to take pictures with…
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Never shoot into the sun...
Maybe it's supposed to break the camera or something, but it seems to work for me. As well as taking these…
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Wool-gathering in the autumn mists
Yesterday I did my first bit of teaching for the year: 30+ bright eyed first year students, all looking to me…
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Shadows on the allotment shed wall
Once upon a time almost everyone could rent a patch at their local allotment garden – a haven of tranquillity where…
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Waiting at midnight
In Yeats' 'Second Coming (Slouching towards Bethlehem)' his concern was Ireland's struggle:Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy…
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Iced over
A favourite spot for outdoor swimming looked less than inviting today. Freezing temperatures didn't stop thousands of hardier souls taking to…
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Down by the river I
I've been swimming again at tumbling bay. Not some exotic Carribbean destination, or even a disused swimming place in Oxford, but…
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It's been an operatic sort of month. First a highly ritzy and very gay take on Mozart's Don Giovanni at the…
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Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage
Some stunning images in BBC Two's new series presented by Francesco da Mosto in which he sails the great Venetian trading…
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Awash with ideas…
It seems appropriate that in the year of the 70th anniversary of the great floods of March 1947, Oxfordshire has chosen…
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