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  • Welcome to the London Borough of…, the quiz

    Welcome to the London Borough of…, the quiz

    July 19, 2026

    I’m still on reduced writing power this week, so here’s a quiz for you. It’s three weeks since the last instalment of my three-weekly series in which I described my journey taking pictures of…

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  • Dear giant creatures

    Dear giant creatures

    July 12, 2026

    This month I have a little less time for writing for the blog, partly because I’m going to an in-person thing that I need to write something for. So, like last week’s post, this…

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  • Time travel

    Time travel

    July 5, 2026

    This one’s a bit different—it’s something I started writing as an exercise when I was at a writing group in Leith on Tuesday night, and finished for the blog. The task, in brief, was…

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  • Welcome to the London Borough of…, part X

    Welcome to the London Borough of…, part X

    June 28, 2026

    Last time: I ticked off six more boroughs, stroked a cat, visited a bathroom, and left my quest there for the day. Twenty-seven weeks ago, I started telling you about my quest to find…

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  • Lapwinging it

    Lapwinging it

    June 21, 2026

    Long-time readers of this blog might remember a once-common running joke, in which every time I mentioned a bird I misnamed it. This all stemmed from a photo gallery I put on Facebook back…

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  • But I think I can see in your face

    But I think I can see in your face

    June 14, 2026

    When I’ve written about board games before, a frequently recurring theme is that a game is pitched as being “chess, but simpler”. Octogo, you may recall, billed itself this way, as did Multiplay. As,…

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Fiction (5) Probably Interesting (12) Puzzles and quizzes (9) Random Tube journey (4) The Name of the Game (7) Welcome to the London Borough of… (11)

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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