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  • A quiz on the cards

    A quiz on the cards

    March 29, 2026

    I’m not sure how I stumbled into board game reviews being a regular feature of this blog that was once about travel in the southern midlands of England, but here we are. I had…

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  • Strictly Come Statsing

    Strictly Come Statsing

    March 22, 2026

    I’ve been watching Strictly Come Dancing since 2011, when Harry Judd, the drummer from McFly, beat Jason Donovan and Waterloo Road’s Chelsee Healey to the Glitterball trophy. For those unfamilar, Strictly is a BBC…

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  • Welcome to the London Borough of…, part V

    Welcome to the London Borough of…, part V

    March 15, 2026

    Last time: I completed my first day of looking for London borough signs with five boroughs, bringing my total to 11. I was now going to spend the weekend doing actual tourist things, so…

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  • It seems to me, for every time

    It seems to me, for every time

    March 8, 2026

    It’s finally time for me to tell you about the third game I bought at Tabletop Scotland. Well, almost. You see, the defining feature of that game is that it isn’t one—a game, I…

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  • Cryptic snowcrossword

    Cryptic snowcrossword

    March 1, 2026

    Back in 2021, I made a cryptic crossword for this blog. It didn’t go super well: It turns out that the intersection of amateur bloggers and amateur crossword writers is, essentially, me.  So there’s…

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  • Welcome to the London Borough of…, part IV

    Welcome to the London Borough of…, part IV

    February 22, 2026

    Last time: it was hot. I’d been searching for London borough signs for nearly five hours, and I’d got six signs. I was in the outer reaches of Croydon, a borough which barely has…

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Probably Interesting (12) Puzzles and quizzes (6) Random Tube journey (4) The Name of the Game (3) Welcome to the London Borough of… (5)

Escaping Oxford

This started as a guide to places to visit from Oxford; some typical tourist attractions, some less so. It’s now just a place for me to put whatever I want to on the web. Updates on Sundays.

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