Month / July 2024
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Peter Forbes, market trader.
Peter Forbes, has been setting up at Gloucester Green market since six thirty in the morning when I arrive at nine. You can’t miss him. “I’ve got the best pitch,” he grins…
July 27, 2024 -
The Stone Saints Retirement Home
Antonia Hockton has been coming to New College in Oxford twice a year for the past 26 years. She arrives as the students leave, for the long vacation. For this is when…
July 20, 2024 -
A walk in Oxey Mead
Exactly this time last year my neighbour and go-to flora and fauna guru Beatrice Groves took me to the Lye Valley in search of the elusive flower, the Grass of Parnassus. The…
July 13, 2024 -
One year anniversary
The weather has perked up, the sun is out, and so what better than to take a walk along the river for a drink at the Perch Inn on Port Meadow. Besides…
July 6, 2024
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