Monthly Archives: July 2010

festival season

By Alice | Published: July 13, 2010

There seem to be so many festivals during the summer. It can be a fun way to spend the day as long as the number of drunk idiots is low. This is from the end of a smaller one I went to at the weekend (there were not many drunk idiots :) ). The second [...]

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Honda hotel (or how far we will travel for a Japanese meal)

By Alice | Published: July 12, 2010

Random adventure time. We paid a visit to The Rosemary restaurant in Stanton House Hotel which is just outside Swindon. From the outside you would not expect this hotel to be the kind of place that we would drive for an hour to get to for lunch as it looks like a business hotel. However [...]

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clomping about

By Alice | Published: July 9, 2010

We got this new-to-us kilim wool rug from Ebay. Our last rug had got pretty destroyed by the kitties, they just loved to dig their little kitty claws into it (much more than their scratching post) and give it a good scratch leaving large tumbleweeds of fluff blowing about the place. I think I have [...]

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New College, Oxford

By Alice | Published: July 7, 2010

On my way home from work yesterday I stopped off on my journey for a spontaneous mini adventure as I was passing New College. I don’t think I have been in there before. I’ve been in a majority of the colleges and I have a vague idea to visit every college and take pictures, but [...]

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recently

By Alice | Published: July 6, 2010

1. The shade of big trees is the best kind of shade. 2. A nice meal at Edamame again. We went to their excellent sushi night. It’s quite reasonable and the only decent Japanese food that I know of in this region (anyone got any other suggestions?). It’s not open every day and you always [...]

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