Category: Blog posts
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London: a random Tube journey, part IV
A couple of weeks ago, I woke up to an unexpectedly empty day, my previous plans having been rearranged. I awoke from a dream, in which I’d dreamt that I was continuing my random…
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Leamington
Have you any friends who go, or went, to the University of Warwick? If so, then there’s a pretty good chance you know a current or former resident of Leamington, because the University of…
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London: City and Southwark
The tour of Charing Cross Tube station only lasted about an hour and a quarter. With a few hours to kill in London after lunch, we had to find something else to do. You’ll…
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London: Charing Cross tube station
I am so excited to write this one. So so so excited. Literally, this is a whole post about a Tube station. I’ll try and make it interesting for the rest of you too.…
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Witney
I’d never been to Witney before. I knew of it, of course; it was the constituency of our former Prime Minister, after all. But, I thought, how will I know what it’s really like…
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Bicester
It’s the new year, so the festive posts are over; that said, I haven’t had chance to go anywhere yet in 2019, except Leeds. Luckily, I went somewhere last year that I still haven’t…
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Quiz of the year
We’re still in the festive period, so what better way to celebrate than with a quiz? And what’s even better than a quiz? A quiz with a prize, of course! I’ll put some full…
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Blog break: Christmas
It is, of course, Christmas in two days’ time. So what better way to celebrate than by answering the burning hypothetical question: what if some of our best-loved Christmas carols were not written about…
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London: a random Tube journey, part III
For what is likely to be my last actual-going-somewhere post of the year, I found myself in London, and decided to continue my random journey around the Tube. When we left off, my random…
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Oxford: around the ring road
I’ve spent this weekend house-hunting, so I don’t actually have anything to say about a new place I’ve been. But I have now spent a lot of time going to all sorts of obscure…