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 23, 2007

Reviews of splendour

The public were clambering over themselves to praise the opera... in a way.

Here is one take on it

http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/reviews/feature/2476/The%2BGondoliers/

And another

http://www.oxfordtheatrereview.co.uk/?q=node/290


There was a third, but it began with 'Opera is not very good', and went down hill from there - classic neutral reporting. I think that was done by the Student rag, and doesn't need to be resurrected here.

Oh yes, the next post should be of my transfer dissertation once my supervisor finishes with his brace of comments.

And lastly a picture of the birds and lads from Act I.

And of everyone in the nearby squash court, where the smell of victory hung over us all like a large smelly hangy thing.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Tim Trudgian, as the Grand Inquistor, putting on a flawless English accent (he’s an Aussie), was the acting star, managing to be both the cliché of the evil Catholic priest whilst retaining the slight air of a cheeky-chappie – and his voice was impressive as we"

Gold!

2:48 am GMT  
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12:21 am GMT  
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8:42 am GMT  

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