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  • At the Sign of the Three Blackbirds

    Imagine if you could design your own currency. Decide on an image to represent you, pop in your initials, a date and a pretty border, make the die, and then…

    August 10, 2024
    General
  • Happy New Year

    I am delighted to say that this is the 26th edition of the Oxford Sausage. That’s six months of weekly ramblings. The time has gone in a flash – and…

    December 30, 2023
    General
  • Making the post – Oxford’s Victorian letterboxes

    You see them all over Oxford.  A Victorian invention, standing solidly on the city’s pavements and street corners, or sunk into ancient walls, elegant in design, cheerily welcoming in their…

    December 2, 2023
    Builders and buildings, General, Inside markets & outside fairs
  • The vacant chair

    The photograph above shows the latest cohort of undergraduates coming to study at Hertford College, Oxford. It is taken on the west side of the Old Buildings Quadrangle – you…

    November 11, 2023
    College life, General, Oxford portraits
  • An autumn show in the parks

    We’ve had some incredible blue skies this week. So I head down the road to the University Parks, to take pictures of the autumn colours. As the clocks go back,…

    October 28, 2023
    Flora and fauna, General
  • Age shall not wither Yew

    As well as the needless vandalism that saw the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland this week, I read that an old yew tree has…

    October 7, 2023
    Flora and fauna, General
  • Jeff Clarke, Artist

    Under a Cretan blue sky last week, I cycled over Folly Bridge to South Oxford to meet Jeff Clarke, who at eighty eight, is about to open a new show…

    September 2, 2023
    General, Oxford portraits

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