By Alice | Published:
December 20, 2011
It was my birthday on Sunday and I celebrated with days and days of events spread over two weekends. I really love having my birthday and it’s exactly a week before Christmas so feels very festive and people are in a happy jolly mood.
Birthday number one was with my family, we met at an Italian place for lunch and then went to One Man, Two Guvnors and after we had dinner at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand which is a fun place to eat as it’s very traditional British food and they come and carve at your table.
Birthday number two was going with some friends for pizza and drinking. This was also jointly Simon’s birthday as our birthdays are close. We ate the pizza at La Cucina which was excellent and coped really well with having lots of people.
Then on my actual birthday we had a whole plan of going off to London but the weather was a bit crazy so instead we went for a delicious lunch around the corner at the Magdalen Arms (like last year), and went for a walk. The weather was indeed pretty crazy!
The annual picture of me when I make Simon take one :)
It was a very good birthday.
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By Alice | Published:
December 8, 2011
Found the sign and went down the dark drive.
Around the corner of this house.
To this! The Grove House Rotunda.
It had been made into a gig venue for a few nights. Very cosy and with mulled wine by Oxfork.
Three local bands….
The Family Machine
Cat Matador
The Young Knives
Also much discussed was the disco ball in the toilet :)
Also posted in Music, Oxford |
By Alice | Published:
November 30, 2011
It was day in the life again the other day (where some of us document our day) but I only managed to take some pictures during my commute. In the above I am waiting in the early hours with Gloria (my bicycle) at the station.
On the train drinking a cuppa, listening to a podcast, and finishing my makeup (this is needed if I’ve had to dash out of the house).
Cycling. Deer on the horizon.
Swans on the lake.
Then a day of work and the whole thing in reverse :)
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By Alice | Published:
November 28, 2011
On the principle of never passing a place of historical interest without poking our noses into it we took a look inside this church in Burford as we were passing and found they had a HUGE amount of kneeler cushions. I’ve mentioned before that one of the interesting things to look out for in countryside churches is the kneeler cushions, they can be really cool (and sometimes a bit odd) :) Well done cross stitchy people.
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By Alice | Published:
November 20, 2011
December is birthday season in our house, I’d been starting to think about what I’d like to do for mine and I’d really like to have a meal at the Magdalen Arms like last year. This reminded me I had these unpublished Lomo pictures from a different celebration there in the summer. It is now one of my favourite places to eat in Oxford and luckily it’s only around the corner from my house. It has been a bit erratic but when they get it right they get it so very right.
This weekend I also came to the realisation that I really don’t want to leave the city. We’d been considering moving out to the countryside as we’d be able to get a much nicer and bigger house, and it would be quieter, safer, and nearer to my work. I like the life I have now though, where in the evenings and weekends I can walk or cycle everywhere, bump into lots of friends in the street, gigs just down the road, and of course have a wide choice of local eateries like the Magdalen Arms. Oxford is great!
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