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  • Bradford

    Bradford

    October 21, 2018

    I’ve been meaning to do this post for a while.  See, I’ve spent a lot of time denigrating the city of Bradford,¹ when actually I think it’s a fairly nice place.  (If you go…

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  • York

    York

    October 14, 2018

    This post is going to be a bit like my Bath one, except with the same caveat I gave to my Leeds one.  Perhaps I needn’t write it at all in that case: you…

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  • Leeds

    Leeds

    October 7, 2018

    ARGH @£$$(_@ I haven’t written a blog post yet.  And it’s 9pm.  I’m getting worse at this.  Luckily the city I was going to write about is Leeds, so I have time to come…

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  • Slough

    Slough

    September 30, 2018

    Ever since I read my favourite poet John Betjeman’s verse entitled “Slough”, I’ve wanted to visit the town to see if it was really as beautiful as he made it sound.  After all, he…

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  • Blog break: an acrostic apology

    Blog break: an acrostic apology

    September 23, 2018

    I’m sorry that this week there’s not The usual post today. What’s happened, simply: I forgot, And so instead I’ll tell you what Shall come, quite soon, your way. When, once, I wrote of…

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  • London: a walk

    London: a walk

    September 16, 2018

    So this week’s post is a bit weird, because it’s a fairly literal description of a walk.  This was a walk I took when introducing a friend to London who’d never been before, and…

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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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