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, November 17, 2006

PHOTOS - Christ Church with their money and huge campus...





Top: The porters here wear bowler hats and all the cutlery and crockery have Ch Ch printed on them.
2nd: One of the many stained glassed windows in Christ Church Cathedral. It is the only cathedral in the world which doubles as a college chapel and is also the largest college chapel in the world. Perhaps I got this from a brochure...
3rd: Pictures of benefactors and past students. King Henry VIII went here and I think Elizabeth I threw a bone or two their way.
4th: Tom Tower, the bell tower of Christ Church which rings 100 times on the first Thursday of each month or something like that. I will try to get the full story and then throw on an addendum. Ah yes, and Christ Church time is 5 minutes past GMT... only in Oxford.

posted by Tim Trudgian | 12:46 pm

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