Arrived in England form Perth via Singapore.
Did all sorts of stuff for the next month. Nook garden looked nice...
Thursday, 28-Oct-2010:
Arrived in England form Perth via Singapore.
Did all sorts of stuff for the next month. Nook garden looked nice...
Saturday, 30-Oct-2010: Alex flew to Atlanta, USA for Internet2 Conference.
Returned overnight on 4-Nov-10.
Saturday, 6-Nov-2010: visit Cotswold Wildlife Park.
Saturday, 13-Nov-2010: Hannah Brooks wedding to Martin Clark.
Thursday, 18-Nov-2010: Alex drove to London for Research Data Workshop at Royal College of Physicians (stayed overnight then drove back on Friday).
Monday, 22-Nov-2010: both drove to London for Alex to attend Janet Strategic Briefing at Royal Society on Tuesday (stayed overnight, then drove to Manchester).
Wednesday, 24-Nov-2010: Alex attended NHS-HE Workshop in Manchester (stayed overnight).
Sunday, 28-Nov-2010:
Drove to Bicester, parked car for a week, took train to Marylebone then walked to St Pancras to take Eurostar with Chris Wright, to Gare du Nord, Paris.
[there was a major incident on the Bicester-Marylebone train at Rickmansworth, when someone trespassed on the tracks; this caused a delay which meant we missed our Eurostar booking - but we got a note from Chiltern Railways which enabled us to catch a later Eurostar with no penalty]
Lots of sightseeing in Paris, including the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, the shop lights on Boulevard Haussmann, the Orangerie, the Musee D'Orsay, an open-top bus tour, a bateau mouche at night...
Friday, 3-Dec-2010: Return to London/Bicester/Bourton.
A beautiful hoar frost on 7-Dec-2010:
Wednesday, 8-Dec-2010: Visited Waddesdon Manor (all decked out for Christmas):
Thursday, 9-Dec-2010: drove into Oxford, visited Ashmolean Museum.
Drove through the ever-picturesque Burford:
Saturday, 11-Dec-2010: drove into Cumnor, attended performance of the Cumnor Players' Pantomine, Alladin.
Wednesday, 15-Dec-2010: Alex drove to Didcot to visit Janet HQ.
Thursday, 16-Dec-2010: drove into Oxford, attended performance of the Pantomine, Cinderella, at Oxford Playhouse (Erica in the cast).
Saturday, 18-Dec-2010: snowed most of the day, starting off light, but reached mammoth proportions as I watched the cricket (which photo found its way onto the ABC website with the caption "cricket fan snowed in"). Over the next couple of days it hung around and with partial melt produced lots of icicles!:
Sunday, 19-Dec-2010: roads were near impassible, with snow & ice; but by driving slowly and cerfully we drove Chris Wright into Oxford station (had previously planned to take trsin from Kingham, but trains not operating on that line). She got a train from Oxford to Reading, thence Paddington and Heathrow. Her flight was delayed overnight, but she got a hotel room near Heathrow, and caught it Monday morning.
Wednesday, 22-Dec-2010: Tim, Chris, Amy & Isaac arrived, staying in Blockley (home of Father Brown in the TV series).
Saturday, 25-Dec-2010: Had Christmas lunch at Ian & Nikki's, with TCA&I, Ted & Doreen. Plenty of snow, so did lot of tobogganing down the Hurst.
Tuesday, 28-Dec-2010: drove into Oxford, attended performance of the Pantomine, Cinderella, at Oxford Playhouse (along with TCA&I, INE&L - I think!). Nikki's birthday...
Wednesday, 29-Dec-2010: lunch at Great Western Arms, Blockley, with TCA&I, IE&L (Nikki sick).
More snow on 4-Jan-2011:
By 9-Jan the snow had gone, leaving clear but cold weather - ideal for walking near Cumnor!
Thursday, 13-Jan-2011: Alex had lunch at Gee's, Oxford, with UCISA staff.
Sunday, 16-Jan-2011: drove into Oxford for another performnce of Cinderella, Erica's last.
Thursday, 20-Jan-2011: Visited Northleach and had guided tour of Keith Harding's Mechanical Music Museum.
Sunday, 23-Jan-2011: Visit Cadbury World, Birmingham, with INE&L.
Wednesday, 26-Jan-2011: Return to Perth (arriving early hours of 28-Jan).
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