PHOTOS - views for a tower

Well, it would appear that the last batch of photos managed o replicate itself and appear twice. No matter.

Things here are going well. The singing rehearsals for RUDDIGORE are going well, although with 13 days till we start, the rehearals have already clocked 4 hours in length... and they won't get any shorter.

Rugby could be going better, after our 49-nil drumming we forfeited our next match. We had only 12 men available which although is enough to start, would be a burden too great to carry. I was all about it, injuries or not - it would be the ultimate fairytale story, finishing with a glorious win, possibly cause by a young Australian player making a break from his line and dashing with all the speed in Christendom, the hundred metres, not needing to evade defenders as his sheer pace would sort him out, to score the winning try. Alas my Hollywood ending with violins going and that terminally ill child in the hospital making it out to see the game and getting miraculously cured at the end, was not to be.

Here are some photos, part I perhaps, taken from the Tower at the Church of St Mary Magdalen... this 'Magdalen' is actually pronounced 'MAG-DA-LEN', not to be confused with Magdalen College ['Mord-lin'].

The one at the top is Exeter college and bottom one is All Souls, with the most cutthroat entry of any of the Oxford colleges.
But more on that later.
More photos.