tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post7865203830949504043..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Three Oxford collegesDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-76481137276455912532010-05-20T13:43:53.024+01:002010-05-20T13:43:53.024+01:00I'll look at that when I have a moment, Baz. I...I'll look at that when I have a moment, Baz. In the meantime, I think you were referring to the more recent post. I'd already changed 'beach' to 'beech' once, but missed the second. Maybe thinking of the English Channel in temperatures of 70 plus now.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-2555306041716093262010-05-20T13:13:24.775+01:002010-05-20T13:13:24.775+01:00Copper beach? Here's what you meant
http://w...Copper beach? Here's what you meant <br /><br />http://www.boredville.com/32167/Beach-ArtUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18261209371908180968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-50344518138769530562010-05-09T14:39:37.715+01:002010-05-09T14:39:37.715+01:00The last trump, Colin, with souls ascending and pl...The last trump, Colin, with souls ascending and plunging.<br /><br />I was also rather taken with some of the Victorian windows in the Exeter mock-Sainte-Chapelle: there's a rather fetching Samson bringing down the temple.<br /><br />Didn't see you at last night's Martinu. Were you there?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-28459226588661665972010-05-09T14:37:05.332+01:002010-05-09T14:37:05.332+01:00Wonderful misericords, David, but what has caught ...Wonderful misericords, David, but what has caught my eye is the grisaille window. Does it depict the Last Trumpet, or the Resurrection, or Ascension? Certainly some non-winged figure is rising into the skies. <br /><br />Must get on with the task of reading and not just looking...Colin Dunnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-35344121876500494582010-05-09T00:36:07.656+01:002010-05-09T00:36:07.656+01:00Only you, Minnie, from our short but already delig...Only you, Minnie, from our short but already delightful acquaintance, would be able to get the word 'amphisbaena' into a comment. You are so very welcome!Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-76215098821398180382010-05-08T16:04:56.107+01:002010-05-08T16:04:56.107+01:00Stamford is definitely worth visiting. Coincidenta...Stamford is definitely worth visiting. Coincidentally, I'd just been downloading pix of misericords (incl.a terrific amphisbaena)before I read your post. Some of the best are in a book now, sadly, out of print & consequently costing a small fortune @ Amazon/Abe: 'God's Beasts' in case you don't already know it; quite a few libraries have a copy, tho' - worth a look.Minniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031126325323208656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-47213161606054351552010-05-07T22:03:20.042+01:002010-05-07T22:03:20.042+01:00Ah, Ludlow - possibly my favourite English town (t...Ah, Ludlow - possibly my favourite English town (though I'm told Stamford, which I haven't seen, is just as perfect). You got me digging in my postcard box for the set of misericords.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-88503101724391767452010-05-07T18:30:18.475+01:002010-05-07T18:30:18.475+01:00What extraordinary range, David - from Polly T to ...What extraordinary range, David - from Polly T to C S Lewis via various beasties (and misericords - also a guilty passion of mine: expect you already know it, but St Lawrence, Ludlow, sports some smashers!). Love the pictures. Yes, that chapel is truly ghastly. Shame the choir(s) were a disappointment; but I have to say I've not heard of the poet/librettist, so shall definitely seek out his work.<br />Bet DLS would have found scholarship among the dreaming spires a tad arid after being extraordinarily successful (and fĂȘted) in advertising in London.<br />Too ancient to feel hopeful about politics, and find the LDs douteux (they could lose Jenny Tonge for a start, and V Cable's straight-talking front is, er, just that). Time for another revolution? Perhaps a good thing I live in a famously cynical town run by dodgy duckers-and-divers (but they're OUR triple Ds, and they get things done. For us. Fast). Bon weekend!<br />PS You'll have enormous fun introducing the godchildren to these glorious places.Minniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031126325323208656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-25089170343858387802010-05-07T16:14:21.287+01:002010-05-07T16:14:21.287+01:00No, Robert - it was nowhere to be found on AbeBook...No, Robert - it was nowhere to be found on AbeBooks. So I'd better ring up Unsworth forthwith.<br /><br />'Said nothing' sounds like a reproach. I only set out to write about what we saw last Sunday. How I'd love to get into All Souls - I look at Hawksmoor's towers enviously through the gates. As it's a postgrad college, the normal admissions don't apply. Next time, maybe.<br /><br />No, not posting any more pix of Evi. Nor of the delightful Carla, though she's more of an age to cope with strange men stalking her on the internet...Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-37639672073939539832010-05-07T16:01:26.427+01:002010-05-07T16:01:26.427+01:00Robert McIntosh
ps did you ever track down a copy ...Robert McIntosh<br />ps did you ever track down a copy of Sir Kenneth Dover's scandalous autobiography, Marginal Comment? I saw a copy in Unsworths near Euston Rd a few months ago - maybe it's still there.Robert McIntoshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-69541958212153536492010-05-07T15:54:53.243+01:002010-05-07T15:54:53.243+01:00From Robert McIntosh
I am a Cambridge graduate twi...From Robert McIntosh<br />I am a Cambridge graduate twice over(MA,MPhil, Architecture,Kings), but went to school in Oxford and spent many a happy teenage afternoon exploring three colleges about which you said nothing: All Souls, for Hawksmoor's magnificent scale of the facade and the lofty peaceful chapel and Codrington Library; StJohns for its sublime and large gardens beyond the Canterbury Quad; and Lincoln for its exquisite, tucked away feel. Also that jewel of south Oxford, and Lutyens' only work in the city, the (Catholic)Jesuit college, Campion Hall, wherein Lutyens did amazing, beautiful things with limited space.<br />Any chance of more photos of your goddaughter Evi?<br />Floreat Cantabridgia et Oxonia<br />Robert McIntoshRobert McIntoshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-50774871004358067232010-05-06T23:13:58.334+01:002010-05-06T23:13:58.334+01:00We're both right, Gavin. L Orrence went to Jes...We're both right, Gavin. L Orrence went to Jesus, so to speak, as an undergrad and started (now I quote from Wiki) 'postgraduate research in medieval pottery with a Senior Demy [WTF?] at Magdalen College, Oxford, which he abandoned after he was offered the opportunity to become a practising archaeologist in the Middle East'. The papers can still be seen, apparently.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-57316660551885033002010-05-06T21:09:53.593+01:002010-05-06T21:09:53.593+01:00Magdalen is a sublime college (my first choice ala...Magdalen is a sublime college (my first choice alas). But I thought T.E. Lawrence (being the good Welsh boy) went to Jesus.Gavin Plumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08367649538228383713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-83775184267016985432010-05-06T16:33:11.350+01:002010-05-06T16:33:11.350+01:00A good answer indeed, Sir David. Stet.A good answer indeed, Sir David. Stet.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-59981273407241917982010-05-06T16:01:05.748+01:002010-05-06T16:01:05.748+01:00David Damant writes
Well the quotation about the ...David Damant writes<br /><br />Well the quotation about the universities was from Macauley, who is of course thoroughly unreliable on most things. Lord Melboune said that he " would be glad to be as sure[ maybe he said cocksure ?]of any one thing as Tom Macauley is of everything"<br /><br />But my remarks about Mrs T's economic policy were factual. The great expenditure on schools and the NHS ( etc) under Blair can be put down to her putting the economy right, - and all the main parties and most governments abroad followed ( or came to the same conclusions independently). It was perhaps a matter of trial and error over the 20th century - the other methods failed. More recently a bit of discipline by grocer's daughter would have been useful. Of course that still leaves the social questions open to choice.<br /><br />Finance and business are the sine qua non. Art and music and ( add what you wish) are the raison d'etre. But you cannot do much satisfactory being without having at least enough of the without which not.David Damanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18409591480349323761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-81491647861101503422010-05-06T15:16:09.607+01:002010-05-06T15:16:09.607+01:00Set about with the well-meaning opposition. I don&...Set about with the well-meaning opposition. I don't believe a word of it (least of all the ones about Cambridge, the point being that I love whichever city I'm in at the time).<br /><br />Today, JV, it's today, and the results start flooding in at around 11pm our time. And, no, Labour is not at all popular, and I'm not surprised. The mood is that something has to change, and that the Lib Dems's hour might finally come, if only it weren't for the present system.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-78737322620178439002010-05-06T15:02:44.604+01:002010-05-06T15:02:44.604+01:00I do indeed know that a general election is coming...I do indeed know that a general election is coming up, but, to my shame, do not know when it is. Is Labour expected to retain its majority, whether strongly or slimly? As you know, I would probably be voting for the party you did not mention were I living there, unless they have weakened, as our Republican Party seems to be doing here, _DEFINITELY_ in the District of Columbia. <br /><br />I renewed acquaintance with _The_ _Chronicles_ _Of_ _Narnia_ earlier in this decade, and play my Focus on the Family dramatizations of them quite regularly these days. Yet I did not know that "Jack" Lewis was an Oxford man until I acquired these recordings, nor an Anglican since Evangelical Christians seem fond of his writings, and Anglicanism is often rather liberal these days. <br /><br />I will belatedly write of your recent loss in the thread pertaining to it. <br /><br />J. V.JVaughanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07468133975019785693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-69589914154189528952010-05-06T14:54:32.291+01:002010-05-06T14:54:32.291+01:00David Damant writes
It is a pity that the enthusi...David Damant writes<br /><br />It is a pity that the enthusiam shown by so many at Oxford for the Lib Dems overlooks the fact that proportional representation, if implemented, would ensure that governments and policies would for ever afterwards be the result of deals between party professionals in what used to be smoked filled rooms. Just the sort of politicking that those who hold Mr Clegg to be a bright new light wish to get away from. <br /><br />Anyway, most fortunately all the main parties now run Mrs Thatcher's economic policies, so we can relax on that front<br /><br />One may add that "The advantage is, as it has always been, with the less ancient and less splendid university"David Damanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18409591480349323761noreply@blogger.com