Tag: oxford

Pub lunch by the river in the Spring sunshine. ☀️

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Dan, a white man with a blue ponytail and a goatee, smiles next to a broad rural river.

Bitterly cold and starkly beautiful, this morning: West Oxfordshire is blanketed in an impenetrably thick freezing fog.

It's quite pretty, though I'm regretting not bringing my gloves out with me!

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Tree-flanked fields almost impossible to discern through a blanket of thick white fog.

A few pockets of the morning's freezing fog still cling to the hedgerows as the dog and I set out on a chilly West Oxfordshire morning walk.

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A French Bulldog trots along a concrete slab farm track alongside fallow fields bordered by mist, hedges, and distant flanking hills.

This telegraph pole in the centre of Eynsham carries the scars of hosting countless community announcements, notices, and flyers over the last 30 years.

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Close-up of a wooden telegraph pole littered with rusted staples and drawing pins of different sizes and ages, with an out-of-focus urban street disappearing into the distance.

Not just a global issue but a local one too. A local one... almost everywhere.

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Series of coloured bars trending from blue to red, representing relative temperature change in Oxford, UK, for the last 111 years, showing a clear average increase of a couple of ℃.

#ShowYourStripes

Oxford Station. Catching a train to Manchester for a get-together in memory of the Nightline Association, which will sadly be closing this year (although individual Nightlines will doubtless soldier on just as they did before the Association).

Carrying a big ol' bag of Three Rings swag to give to basically anybody who expresses even the slightest interest. 😅

Three Rings has been supporting Nightlines since before the Nightline Association and nowadays underpins voluntary work by hundreds of other charities including helplines like Samaritans and Childline. Feeling sad that the Nightline Association is going away and looking for a new and rewarding way to volunteer? Come chat to me!

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Dan, with blue hair and wearing a black t-shirt, stands on a sunny train platform holding aloft a medium-sized tote bag.

Good morning, Oxfordshire! A freezing-fog farewell for me, this morning, as I get up early to catch a series of buses to the airport.

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A wet rural road, lit by the sun's first light as it rises ahead, it's flanked by fields full of freezing fog.

A lunchtime dog walk was made especially delightful by the growing warmth of the approaching British springtime. It's really bright and pretty out, this afternoon!

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A French Bulldog in a harness but no lead stands in front of a empty field, under bright blue skies with sparse clouds. Bare wintery trees can be seen in the background, bathed in warm yellow light.

Not quite ready for wintering indoors, our village's hardy sheep are enjoying pasturing in the large field near the school this beautiful but chilly morning.

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Warm colours break through scattered clouds from a winter sunrise over sheep grazing in a scrubby pasture.

Snuffles in the Snow. This morning's freak snowfall in Oxfordshire is a source of some confusion on this pupper's morning walk.

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A champagne coloured French Bulldog wearing a teal jumper stands at the edge of a snow-covered field.

Me? Underprepared? (He says, literally writing his presentation in the bar at the event...)

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Dan, a white man with a goatee-style beard, wearing a black t-shirt and a bi pride watch strap, sits at a bar table with a half-empty (half-full?) pint of beer and a laptop. He looks mildly concerned. The laptop screen shows Dan's face, deep in thought, alongside the words "Why is Oxford's area code '01865'?"

 

Sometimes you just gotta have exactly the right prop for a presentation...