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 - some Oxford Architecture



Top: A look down Broad Street: The Sheldonian Theatre and the former Ashmolean Museum, which is now the Museum for Science.
Middle: The Old Bodleian Library up close [not the one with the plaque].

Bottom: The Sheldonian Theatre up close, and a truck. Why would he get in the way of my picture?


Top: There are some heads, (The 13, or 14 Caesars, I can never remember how many) around the Sheldonian Theatre. They are watching over it, keeping out the heeby jeebys or something to that effect.
Bottom: The Tower of St Michael of the North Gate, nearly 1000 years old. This is Oxford's oldest building and was built by William the Conquerer as part of his network of town defences across the country [I may or may not have got that piece directly from a brochure, who's to say?]

posted by Tim Trudgian | 9:53 am

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tim, I am so enjoying your yarns...have been missing them of late. I must confess to not knowing what a "crenel" is!! I was very impressed at the tidiness of your room!! Would your Scout like to stay with us in Australia for a while? I could get used to that!!
Love, Mum.xx

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