Damian’s Tumblr
Janice inspecting our finished Print on Flickr.
Pressing Concerns is a taster course in letterpress and linocut printing held in Richard Lawrence’s print shop in East Oxford. This year’s shared project is a calendar of 12 linocut prints (three sessions of four people makes 12 prints).
The Saint Sees it Through on Flickr.
I have started volunteering at the Oxfam Book Shop on St Giles Street in Oxford. I can’t afford to take home all the books that catch my eye there, so instead I am collecting some of them in a Flickr photoset.
If you are in the UK but not in London, today you can vote for the Police and Crime Commissioner. While some people object to the fact that most candidates are backed by political parties, I think not voting would be worse than refusing to vote.
If you are in the Thames Valley area then the abovelinked set of articles may help. Tony in Headington discusses the process and also the candidates’ background and performance in hustings. Some of the info will be useful to confused voters generally, not just in Thames Valley.
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”
Many splendid glasses were worn at CAPTION.
Some panels from a 28 page adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Lot No. 249’, for an upcoming volume of Graphic Classics. (Simon Gane: Lot No. 249)
(VIa Neill Cameron)
In 1066, Cowley was a bigger deal than Oxford.
What is interesting about the Bodleian’s copy of the First Folio is that the library decided to dispose of it with the publication of the Third Folio of Shakespeare’s plays in 1664. (Bodleian treasures: Shakespeare’s First Folio - Channel 4 News)
We will be running an RHoK event in Oxford as part of the global event in December.
The have a Genesis catalogue in Zappi’s café (above Bike Zone on St Michaels Street). Ben’s bike was stolen while he was away on holiday, so we had a look through it for ideas. I really like the look of the Genesis Say One Alfine, although tragically if I were one day able to afford one one, after admiring its purity of form I would then ruin it by adding mudguards, a rack, and a dynamo hub (always assuming that that is even possible with disc brakes). But until then it is a very pretty bike and would probably be a lot of fun to pootle about on in Oxford.
This Sunday (July 31) heralds the first Oxford to London Eco-Rally, which will see a convoy of state-of-the-art, zero-emissions vehicles run from Broad Street in the City of Dreaming Spires to the Mall in the capital. The vehicles will be arriving in Oxford the day before and making use of the city’s electric vehicle charging points, now available at selected public car parks and Park and Ride sites. Then on Sunday they will be on display to the public from 8am to 10am in Broad Street before the start.
Bike Zone Oxford Grand Opening
(dominic langan via Bike Biz via Carlton Reid via Cyclox)
Cyclist have decisively beaten other modes of transport in a commuter challenge run by Cyclox, the cycling campaign for Oxford. Oxford’s lord mayor made the seven-mile journey in 34 minutes
Iris 2 on Flickr.
Found this growing in my pond!
