Sunday in Oxford
May. 25th, 2008 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
louiseluxWe went to Oxford yesterday, partly to mooch about the bookshops, partly to go to the botanical gardens. It's 20 minutes on the train from Reading, which seemed the perfect travelling distance.
So we mooched a lot and found a new second hand bookshop, where I scored heavily in quality if not in quantity: one copy of Dracula, Prince of Many Faces by my old friends Radu Florescu and Raymond T McNally. It's their follow up, many years later, to In Search of Dracula
An art installation in the grounds of what was the old gaol and is now a branch of the up market hotel Malmaison (Bad House, fittingly). The junk furniture is apparently arrayed to imitate the layout of the old cells.
Nice book shop near Oxford Castle, stuffed full of genre fiction, run by a very nice man who told me it was his dream to run such a shop. He was a part time heating engineer too and had blueprints spread out on his desk - multitasking to make ends meet. He was great.
My book yay!
Dramatic iris is dramatic at the botanical gardens
There was a patch of bobble-headed alliums surrounding huge silvery artichokes
A huge crumpled leaf
My decision-making story die, 50p each from Borders. I haven't had any decision making crises yet, but am looking forward to having one soon.
Lemon muffin, omg. It was delicious with a latte.
Portrait in a bin - Matt is next to me, reading Patrick O'Brian, and I am reading my new book and taking photos.
My feets, randomly. I'm chucking these plimsolls soon, because it is now impossible to stop them smelling bad.
Cherry beer on the way home and more healthy water. The wee bag is an incredibly useful present from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
i_am_zan - a tiny insulated cool bag, with a tag that says 'lube sheep' on it. I use it fortaking my milk and probiotic yoghurt drinks to work
So we mooched a lot and found a new second hand bookshop, where I scored heavily in quality if not in quantity: one copy of Dracula, Prince of Many Faces by my old friends Radu Florescu and Raymond T McNally. It's their follow up, many years later, to In Search of Dracula
An art installation in the grounds of what was the old gaol and is now a branch of the up market hotel Malmaison (Bad House, fittingly). The junk furniture is apparently arrayed to imitate the layout of the old cells.
Nice book shop near Oxford Castle, stuffed full of genre fiction, run by a very nice man who told me it was his dream to run such a shop. He was a part time heating engineer too and had blueprints spread out on his desk - multitasking to make ends meet. He was great.
My book yay!
Dramatic iris is dramatic at the botanical gardens
There was a patch of bobble-headed alliums surrounding huge silvery artichokes
A huge crumpled leaf
My decision-making story die, 50p each from Borders. I haven't had any decision making crises yet, but am looking forward to having one soon.
Lemon muffin, omg. It was delicious with a latte.
Portrait in a bin - Matt is next to me, reading Patrick O'Brian, and I am reading my new book and taking photos.
My feets, randomly. I'm chucking these plimsolls soon, because it is now impossible to stop them smelling bad.
Cherry beer on the way home and more healthy water. The wee bag is an incredibly useful present from
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Date: 2008-05-26 09:33 am (UTC)Cherry beer is so good, guh. It's quite strongly flavoured, so in that way it's a bit dangerous to drink because it tastes so innocent. I do recommend it. The brand I like best is Bacchus.