Monthly Archives: October 2010

other ways to a cheerful winter

By Alice | Published: October 29, 2010

1. Increase fairy string light quota. 2. Mulled wine. I got some new lights for inside the house. I don’t quite have as many as Nigella… yet. Mulled wine is also another perk of this season. It seems that Oxford is a very mulled wine sort of place, most pubs will do it from about [...]

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bicycle basket improved with ribbons

By Alice | Published: October 27, 2010

Back in the spring I bought this bike basket and after good use all summer I thought I would cheer it up a bit for the winter. I have quite a lot of ribbon gathered from gifts, parcels, and bought here and there. For this I chose a few that looked very cheerful and wrapped [...]

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Supersonic Festival 2010, Birmingham

By Alice | Published: October 25, 2010

This past weekend we were lucky enough to be able to attend Supersonic Festival in Birmingham. Supersonic is my favourite of all the festivals. These are my top five reasons why: 1. Interesting music, both old favourites and new things I’d never heard of before. The music at Supersonic I think you could generally descibe [...]

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Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

By Alice | Published: October 22, 2010

I’ve definitely been to Lady Margaret Hall before but I think it was when I was a kid. We used to live around the corner so I was always aware of this college and passed it on the short walk to the park. Having visited several colleges with the purpose of exploring and taking pictures [...]

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evening classes

By Alice | Published: October 20, 2010

Simon and I have been taking Japanese classes which run once a week in the evenings. The classes are held in a school that in the daytime is for children. It’s so funny being back in that atmosphere. There are loads of other adult learning classes held in the evening at the school at the [...]

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