Oxford! Part I and Knitting
wo posts for all our Oxford photos, of a weekend away last month. I've saved all the Tolkien-related stuff for next week. Although, of course, most things in Oxford are Tolkien-related, by definition...Also got some knitting photos for my ongoing Knitting in the Wild series... I'm a few rows away from completing a blanket for a cousin's baby -- it's nice to finish off an ROW80 round with at least one goal completed, even if it's not writing related!
Outside Christ Church college
Knitting shop!
Really yummy homemade ice cream
An ox for Oxford, outside the train station
St Giles Church neighbourhood. Apparently there's a labyrinth on the grounds -- I'd like to explore it some day!
I hadn't realised Oxford boasted coffee shops from the 17th century!
Blackwell's Bookshop -- I shared an anecdote that took place in this shop, during my A to Z on the Inklings
Radcliffe Camera
Bodleian Library grounds
The living cell was first identified in a house on this site
The Einstein blackboard!
Keble College grounds
Keble College chapel
Keble College -- we stayed here! Leving the Hall, after breakfast...
I hadn't known before that the original of this painting, The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt, is in the Keble College chapel!
More photos from Keble
Mind the gap!
Atmospheric train photo...
Images from the Ashmolean history of science exhibit, including Lewis Carroll's camera. The Oxford English Dictionary was in this building back when Tolkien was on the staff of the dictionary
Baby blanket!
I've done two more bands of colour since this photo was taken. Only one left to go!
And here's some Knitting in the Wild:
Girl in a Field Knitting by Hans Dahl, 1879
Saw this quote from Moontide by Mercedes Lackey on Twitter
Marge Simpson knitting!
Knitting in Paris, 1951
Hope you've enjoyed all these photos!
Are you planning any trips this summer?
Comments
Takes me back all those photos .. cheers Hilary
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Ooh, Hilary, that sounds like an intriguing discovery.
Love the building, Alex. I always think of Tolkien's The Notion Club Papers when I visit it.
Ooh, Sara, it doesn't seem possible but I don't remember that line at all. Must reread Little Women again :-)
Now I wish I lived near you, sage -- I wish we had a boat! I know nothing about boating, of course, but have been on my uncle's sailboat and motor boat a few times and it was, without hyperbole, the most fun ever.