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 10, 2006

PHOTOS - views from a Tower II



Here are a couple of panoramic views of 'The City of Dreaming Spires' which is what Oxford is affectionally known as. Not Cambridge - we don't talk much about the C word here.

Here is a photo of the mighty Radcliffe Camera, taken from the Tower. I don't actually know what the building does.... but whatever it does it is doing it now.

The walkways were pretty narrow up on the Tower, and for some reason there was a altophobic American tourist up there. She kept saying, "Oh my gawwd, it is so high", while holding onto the walls for grim death. Well, apart from her I didn't meet any other Nobel Prize winners, which is a pity, but I did have this chap to keep me company.


Before I am 'automatically logged off' I should post this, then get back with the QUODs for this week.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good update - will read again. A+++++++++++++++++

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