November 2003

Where I work, I can look up into the atrium at the skylights above, and the patterns that the sun casts, are really very striking…

From my Estonian holiday – I’m going to try and draw this guy – mind you I will need one heck of a big piece of paper!

Following advice from last time, I have tried drawing this poor victim – Helen – from a photograph upside down. And here, the results…

Well, it’s an Oxford college actually — but it does seem strikingly like it could be facade of Mr Rochester’s great house…

I must remember to take more pictures of the sunset from my bedroom window… Decided to mooch around Oxford today as it was a grey (and subsequently) wet November Sunday. Picked up a couple of books for my Mum in…

Listened to this on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme on Thursday… SHELL SCULPTURE Maggi Hambling’s giant shell sculpture, built to honour Composer Benjamin Britten, is now installed on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk where Britten used to live. John Wilson…

to tell rachel2205 about some of my favourite books, and why they are so great and other people should read them.

…I mean honestly! Is this kind of behaviour really dignified?! After I got back the Phillip Pullman talk, I curled up on the end of the sofa to find Jordan College on the fold out map within Lyra’s Oxford, and…

From here: http://psychologytoday.psychtests.com/tests/act_access.html Helpful (score = 97) Sociable (score = 56) Need for Approval (score = 65) Dependent (score = 60) Tense (score = 76) Rigid (score = 3) Controlling (score = 9) Competitive (score = 6) Conscientious (score =…

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Just five more days before lekythen and I go hear Philip Pullman talk about his new book at the Sheldonian Theatre. I was reminded about this all to clearly has I walked up George Street in blazing autumn sunshine –…