Oxford's Radcliffe Camera with spring flowers in the foreground

Spring blossoms

Spooky abandoned outbuildings

Agreed to take the boy to a new hobby and inadvertently found myself in a 70s horror film

a close up of a person holding a statue of a monster Alt: Shrivelled

We're 50 feet from a river, how is the humidity in our office down to 22%?

1950s trsin station platform coin-operated machine that dispenses "A full size tablet of Nestle's milk chocolate AND your weight"

The 1950s did passive-aggressive in style:

A full size tablet of Nestle's milk chocolate AND YOUR WEIGHT

Left - before, right - after

Earning his Easter egg

A Nankauri 'scare devil'

Wednesday.

Tythings, a sculpture of a mouse (left), an owl (centre), and two mice (right) sitting on the central three of seven pillars commemorating the seven tythings (or hamlets) of Cumnor

Tuesday Tythings - Julian Warren's gorgeous owl and mice 'Tythings' sculpture in Oxford, one of the seven tythings of Abingdon Abbey (675-1538 CE)

Building a Church out of Herring: Doles, Shares, and Maritime Date: 2026-05-13T00:00:00 | Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Venue: Oxford Lifelong Learning (in-person and online) Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JA

One for anyone who's interested in the mediaeval period, buildings and landscapes, and human societies making what they can out of what they have (in person in Oxford but also available online) - 13th May 5-6pm

www.ox.ac.uk/event/buildi...

Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum

The view from this afternoon's #office

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A silly little yellow dog

Equinox milestones - the back lawn has had its first cut of the year, and this idiot has had his first lecture of the year on the difference between delicious healthy snacks, and slugs that have drowned in a plant pot

Lisbon street cats being fed

#Caturday and dinner time for the street cats at Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara, Lisbon

The Ashmolean Museum

The view from this afternoon's #office

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Nosferatu, not a fan of the parsnip

You know how everything with goat's cheese in it tastes of goat? And when the sugar industry tried making sugar from parsnips, it all tasted of parsnip? Do you think it works like that for vampires?

Left: Radcliffe Camera, ahead: All Souls College, right: The University Church of St Mary the Virgin

Good morning from sunny #Oxford

The 14th century tomb of Lopo Fernandes Pacheco, Sé de Lisboa

Love this very smug hound laying on the tomb of Lopo Fernandes Pacheco, Sé de Lisboa #MementoMoriMonday

A box of 'GoodSlim Drain Hot Plus', whatever that might be

Terrifying

Statue contemplating a mammoth skull

And a close up

TFW it's a lovely present but you don't know where you're going to keep it

Window view from a TAP Air flight to Portugal for a conference

The view from this morning's #office

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Magnolias in flower around Oxford (clockwise from top left: Hertford College, High Street, Cricket Rd and Outram Rd)

Oxford's magnolias (even the ones tucked away behind hoardings) are putting on a show already

Oxford's Pitt Rivers museum, viewed from the Clore Gallery (1st floor)

The view from this morning's #office

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The memorial to Lionel Lockyer, (17th century quack and miracle cure merchant) Southwark Cathedral

Monday.

Borlotti beans and kale, in a sauce made from roasted butternut squash, garlic, and potato, served with bread and butter and a little grated cheddar

TFW you take your first bite of the meal you just made and think "I am *good* at this"

Dexter, a Western Hognosed snake

Dexter's starting the day off by being gratuitously cute

#snakesonsunday

Hodge, Southwark Cathedral's resident cat

Happy #Caturday from Hodge, the Southwark Cathedral cat

The Museum of Natural History, Oxford

The view from this morning's #office

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Aisle windows of a disused London church, now overgrown

St Dunstan-in-the-East going all-out gothic for #WindowsOnWednesday

Magdalen College tower, viewed from St Clements

Magdalen on a moody misty morning

Dinosaur!

College dining halls are so stuffy and forma...

The Clarendon Building (left), Bodleian Library (behind) and Sheldonian Theatre (right), Oxford

The view from this morning's #office

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The Ashmolean Museum's 'East meets West' gallery

The view from this afternoon's #office

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