It is a little difficult to account for the last three days. They have been both overwhelming and underwhelming. In many respects I have done and seen very little, and yet here I am in the middle of Oxford with all that that entails (except that I am not entirely sure what it does entail, as […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
Sunday 3 Oct I arrived back in Oxford last night (Saturday), almost in the mood to start settling back into a routine of work and domesticity (note the word “almost”!). However, I still had the hire car for another day and so, after doing a load of clothes washing and drying this morning and finding that my […] Saturday 2 Oct (Part II) Unless the horse is the Uffington white horse, which, to be perfectly honest, seems to be rather ahead of its time in terms of abstract representations. It’s also one of those frustrating places where it’s hard to capture the magnitude of the thing you’re seeing, not least because I couldn’t find a view […] Saturday 3 Oct (Part I) You’ve got to admit, plumbing is a pretty good invention. I left the mighty metropolis of Bude this morning, with the wind howling and the rain pouring, and made the 3 hour drive to Bath (I can’t be sure I took the optimal route … but then I don’t think there is one). […] Tintagel Castle from the north, showing bridge out onto the headland. Friday 2 Oct The real test for you today is to see who recognises the quote in the heading. This one’s really obscure, folks. (I’m curious to know if anyone recognises it. Please post if you do!) Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s there was […] (Good grief, the heading is in APA style: note the comma before the “and”! I cannot escape my work! This holiday is too short!) Thursday 1 Oct This morning I visited St Michael’s Mount, which is one of those places that reminds you how geography can have such an influence on history, sociology and economy. It is a […] Insert imagined bunch of photos and witty (?) anecdotes here. I’ve been pretty weary come evenings, and so the blog is way behind. I’m hoping for a big catch up in the next couple of days when I get back to Oxford. Meanwhile, I’ve done castles, coast and a church, visited Bude (where? who knows?!), and am […] Wednesday 30 Sep I got sunburnt in September (nearly October) on a white sandy English beach. How’s that for another impossible thing?! I spent the day on St Mary’s, one of the Isles of Scilly, and on my way home—by helicopter—we landed on Tresco to pick up some passengers. These are two of the five inhabited islands in […] I’ve had a long, really excellent day, but I am drifting off as I write this. Normal services will be resumed as soon as possible … after a good night’s sleep. In the meantime, I have managed to upload those extra photos from yesterday. They are now available by clicking here. Meanwhile I must go to […] |
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