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Review of Tower House
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Reasonable conveniently-central hotel with good access to Oxford amenities at an acceptable price. Rooms slightly small and floors excitingly “wonky”: not for those afraid of stairs or prone to seasickness!
60 Seconds with Katie & Jane
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Review of Snozone
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Having been skiing on ‘real’ snow for ~25 years, I was pleasantly surprised by the believability of this indoor artificial slope: slightly icy, crystalline snow but otherwise very much like the real thing. Better yet was the service: owing to an administrative mix up (slightly my fault, slightly their fault) I arrived anticipating an hour’s private snowboard tutoring – as I hadn’t snowboarded in 16 years – a full 24 hours ahead of when I was expected. Nonetheless, they sorted me out with an instructor and honoured the verbal agreement I claimed to have, despite what was written on my ticket!
Compared to an Alp, the slope is extremely short and the lifts painfully slow, but this gem of a site beats dry-sloping by a long, long way, and offer helpful friendly service to boot.
Dan Q found GLTDGKFE Bicester Batman Series: Mr Freeze
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Worried that this would be a hard find but my GPSr sent me right to it. Nice hide. TFTC.
Dan Q couldn’t find GC73RKM Church Micro 9015…Bicester – Methodist GOOD’N
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Heavy muggle zone this morning, couldn’t mount a proper search. :-(
Review of McDonald’s
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Just another McDonald’s. Generally fast service and not too busy, but limited parking space and access by car is made challenging by the narrow road – partially through a housing estate: no access from the dual carriageway any more – that provides access to it.
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An aging real estate tycoon’s dementia gives him delusions that he’s the US president. We are that delusion. #AlternateRealityProblems
Review of Partyman World Of Play
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Moderately small but well-constructed soft play with plenty to do despite being smaller than some of its competitors. Clean and tidy. Good mixture of food options (and a licensed bar!), although the pizza we had was very salty. Our favourite local soft play area.
Review of Jacob’s Inn
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Review of Sainsbury’s
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Perfectly reasonable supermarket. Car park sometimes challenging to leave at busy times, with tailbacks stretching into the lanes. Two convenient islands of self-service checkouts.
Technorgy
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The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art
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llustrating long-extinct creatures is difficult, but important work. With no living specimens to observe, it’s up to “paleoartists” who draw, paint, or otherwise illustrate the creatures of prehistory as we think they might’ve been. Their work is the reason that when we talk about velociraptors, stegosaurs, or even woolly mammoths, we have some idea of what they looked like.
But since all we have to go on are fossils, deciding how a dinosaur would have looked is as much art as it is science. And there’s at least one paleoartist who thinks we might be getting things wrong…
For the love of god, not everything is about cats
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Earlier this week, the Spanish government raided the Barcelona office of the PuntCat Foundation, the company that administers the .cat domain, and arrested one of its senior executives.
PuntCat means “dot cat” in Catalan, the language spoken in the Catalonian region of Spain as well as places in France, Andorra, and Italy. The office was raided because Catalonia hopes to hold a referendum on October 1 to decide if it should secede from Spain, and in an effort to quash the referendum, the government of Spain ordered puntCat to “block all .cat domain names that may contain any kind of information about the forthcoming independence referendum,” according to a press release from the foundation.
This is an astonishing attempt at censorship by a member of the E.U. but, unfortunately, that aspect is going largely uncovered because the media is idiotically obsessed with cats…