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  • Welcome to the London Borough of…, part VIII

    Welcome to the London Borough of…, part VIII

    May 17, 2026

    Last time: I found a cow. It was a nice cow. Also some more borough signs, I guess. My goodness, I am tired. I’m writing this after a day with train journeys out-of-proportion in…

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  • At the interval

    At the interval

    May 10, 2026

    This week’s post is an anecdote. Well, it is right now. I’ve just looked up the origin of the word “anecdote”, and it derives from an Ancient Greek word meaning “unpublished”. To put it…

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  • I was an impossible case

    I was an impossible case

    May 3, 2026

    How did you learn your times tables? For me, it was a combination of practising them on the walk to school, and listening in the car to a cassette tape. I still remember the…

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  • Welcome to the London Borough of…, part VII

    Welcome to the London Borough of…, part VII

    April 26, 2026

    It’s 10:36pm, and I’m travelling through Yorkshire on a train to London. We should have arrived nearly half an hour ago. Our first train was cancelled before we got to the station, and our…

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  • What’s wrong with diagonal thinking, anyway?

    What’s wrong with diagonal thinking, anyway?

    April 19, 2026

    Last week, we were talking about “lateral thinking” puzzles, taking a board game called Brain Strain as a jumping-off point. But it wasn’t my first encounter with them, which is probably the reason I…

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  • I’m getting more open-hearted

    I’m getting more open-hearted

    April 12, 2026

    CN: Capital punishment (yes, really) Recently, I managed to track down a review of another product by Octogo Games Ltd. The game was called Where on Earth, and the review was in the December…

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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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