Journey to the Motherland

This is an online account of my three year DPhil undertaken at Oxford University from October 2006 to mid 2009. I will try to remain in email contact with people personally - this is so that I can attach large pictures, movies and anecdotes of the trip. Enjoy!

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From Brisbane to Canberra, from Canberra to Oxford... the temperature is on a downhill run. I hope to be a visiting fellow in Mawson Ice Base next. The programme wouldn’t let me use the Interest categories – what a character. Interests: Cricket(I look forward to seeing the Ashes [from England] in November and [in England] in 2008); writing the great Australian play - the antipodean pinnacle... take that Barry Dickins; Music J.S. Bach - 'Mass in B Minor' without a doubt. Certainly the organ works and concertos for harpsichord form fond favourites. I finally managed to convert all of my Bach CDs to MP3s on my external hardrive (rather than lug the 170 disc set around Oxford - I'll get that money to you later Ross... when Hilary Clinton becomes President and I get a mobile phone.) Anyway, anything by Haydn (I think he cops the rough end of the stick - good symphony times.) Books Hornblower and Captain Blood (there's nothing like adventure on the high seas), Certainly anything by Matthew Riley (7 Ancient Wonders... what a rip snorter), Oh and that book by Dan Brown: Digital Fortress... I will keep people posted as to whether I meet brilliant, young, sexy female code breakers.

Friday, October 27, 2006

PHOTOS - Room, plaque and MCR





Top: All the important items in the one area: photos, rum, weetabix (which taste more like cardboard that weet-bix does), Laws of cricket.

Middle: A view from my room, they have a cricket field and a soccer pitch (that is to say, the cricket square is not on the soccer pitch... plenty of room in Oxford.)

Bottom: My room in the ground state. [A joke you see, it is on the ground floor... and it is like this after the least amount of energy, hence the ground state... I don't have to impress you.]


Top: The plaque on the Bodleian Library [pronounced Bod-lee-uhn]. I make it out to read: Here the first stone of the new Bodlein Building was placed by Queen Mary, mother of King George VI On June 25th 1937. There you go, two years of Latin has proved useful... in... deciphering plaques.... damn.

Bottom: The Middle Common Room [MCR]. There is a portrait of James I above the fireplace, that's right, a fireplace.

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