Linton Lodge Oxford

<br><br><br>"Whatever can go wrong at the most inopportune moment, will" Sod's law<br><br>All I had to do today was to get the laptop ready for travel: clear out old files to make space for photos, transfer my planning files with all the hotel, travel and other necessary detail; and check in.<br><br>First the laptop email chose ...

"We're leavinghome" Beatles<br><br>Leaving thehouse for three months over winter can be a bit of a worry, and besides, thehouse insurers don&#8217;t like it.<br><br>Fortuitously,Barbara and Steve will be house sitting. Good friend Barbara and new partnerSteve have both recently left failed marriages and are looking to start a newlife together. So the arrangement suitsthem, suits us, and suit our insurers. <br><br>But even so,much has to be done to get the house ...

Willie and Kath came up for a few day's at half term in October, to catch up with Sid and Debbie and to get a wee rest if that is possible with two small children!! They went on a pumkin hunt at Blenheim but did not tdo the hunt , instead they had a fish and chip picnic in the park, and ran around with the kids all afternoon. Here are a few pic's mailnly of Maisie and Ruan.

... will be flying. Check out www.seatguru.com a website which lists all the plane configurations for all the airlines and shows the good, the bad and the indifferent seats. Did you know for example that seat pitch on most planes is an inch shorter in the rear seats?<br><br>The best time to claim your seat is at the time of purchase. It&#8217;s amazing how booking agents lose interest in these matters once the dosh is ...

"Got no bags and baggage to slow me down ......" Cliff Richard - Travellin' light.<br><br>No that's not strictly true. I may be travelling light, but Vanda's has already emptied her three wardrobes, and yesterday the kitchen sink went missing. Think that may also be in the case!<br><br>Take a lot or take a little. that has been the debate over the last several weeks.<br><br>Vanda's view is she will need clothes for every conceivable occasion, and washing and ironing ...

... born. <br><br>At the beginning we wanted to go for 3-4 months but the sheer volume of what we wanted to see in those 4 months meant that we would have had to catch a plane nearly every week. In the end we settled for a whole year. <br><br>To be honest I wasn't sure whether we'd actually make it, whether we'd go. It's one thing to talk/dream about something and it's another to do it. 16 months ago this idea seemed so remote, distant and ...

... gorgeous in their own right, and it was a bit humbling walking the same cloisters as the likes of Albert Einstein, William Penn, and Christopher Wren to name just a few of the brainiacs that shaped science, the arts, and politics over the last several hundred years. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote much of The Lord of the Rings here. Charles Dodgson, a.k.a Lewis Carroll, met a little girl named Alice Liddell who inspired the ...

... to Oxford. Shocked, I reached for the hand drawn, and entirely too simplistic map in the packet, and courageously ventured into the strange, cold English air determined to find my way to St. Catharine's College and the meeting room where my colleagues were currently learning loads of information I would never know. In true tourist fashion, I held the map in front of me and chose lots as to which direction to head at first, walking straight until I hit a recognizable road ...

... He put his sweater back on to cover his arms as Aimee and I still had ours on so our arms were covered. We began to quickly realize that this was not an isolated plant and it was growing everywhere out here. We had walked right into a field of the stuff. We made the decision to double back and get the heck out of the trees and back onto the open trail. While heading back out we were careful to avoid and step around it at all ...

At the station I called Erwin my first host in Oxford. He was surprised that arrived one hour earlier than he expected, but promised to be on his way to pick me up. So I sat there and waited for about an hour. Finally he came and gave me a smile for a Hello and helpfully carried my bag. Instead of going to his place first we met up with some friends of him and headed to a pub. There we had some drinks and he introduced me to his friends. They were all very ...