Well definitely going to be trying this one out www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2544125...
06.09.2025 07:01 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0@annarailton.bsky.social
πΉ Labour city councillor for Hinksey Park, deputy leader & cabinet member for zero carbon Oxford Unofficial bridge champion
Well definitely going to be trying this one out www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2544125...
06.09.2025 07:01 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0In an Oxford barbers π
30.08.2025 14:21 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Something very delightfully Oxford about someone taking the time to hand-paint a temporary Queens Lane sign when scaffolding covers the original
28.08.2025 21:35 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Β£7 on Vinted and actually quite good quality!?
05.08.2025 12:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Delighted with this purchase
05.08.2025 12:55 β π 29 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I've asked a lot and answer is always no
"The traffic must flow"
APPARENTLY YES π
I cycled 120 miles to see the cathedral the other day only for it to have scaffolding up π
What losing 10% of your body weight does to you, as told by trips to Wells Cathedral
02.08.2025 17:01 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Do you know why there's pretty much always 2x 5s at the station? Always struck me as a bit inefficient
01.08.2025 14:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Entering the sewer to remove the fatberg
Fat, grease and debris being cleared
A fatberg the size of a blue whale has been removed from Oxfordβs sewers. It took two weeks to remove the 120-tonne lump of congealed fat, oil, grease and wipes, while maintaining Oxfordβs wastewater flow and guarding against high gas levels elevated by the fatberg.
01.08.2025 14:23 β π 22 π 13 π¬ 4 π 5Yes, modulo
1) Who pays for the hangars
2) Persuading people to store Β£100s in kit in hangars in a car park...
Unofficial bridge champion position CONFIRMED with 2x bits about 2x different bridges in the press today πβ¨
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2535010...
Do love some tufted vetch π₯°
29.07.2025 17:57 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Is being discussed but there's genuinely not that much room (and it's quite expensive stuff).
29.07.2025 11:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Me too!
29.07.2025 11:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0These are not in any way easily mode-switchable trips though (unlike any of the other stuff inside this central zone where a charge in unavoidable).
Would be great if the county was up for funding the inevitable shortfall / alternatives but I'm not super optimistic about that
It's also been a delight to learn about Barbara Gatehouse who was key to getting the rink built in the first place.
Labour women getting stuff done, I hope to live up to her legacy.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/1421846...
On the radio this morning talking about the impact of congestion charge on the ice rink
π lots of kit
β²οΈ weird times of day
πΊοΈ travelling huge distances
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multiple times a week
π©βπ¦ lots of juniors
Could be absolutely disastrous for clubs & rink without an exemption
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oh yeah quite the brain fart! Exeter College!!
25.07.2025 20:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Other cities may have better vistas and landmarks, or more impressive colonnades and sprawling public spaces, but few cities do better *glimpses* than Oxford.
Nobody can touch us when it comes to half-seen things that stick in the memory.
YES, this is exactly it
There is no Notre Dame but there are thousands of tiny vignettes.
"A Cambridge Diary" photo series captured this perfectly in the other place
There's a similar glimpse up Turl Street but it loses marks for a flagpole obscuring the spire π
25.07.2025 10:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is one of my favourite views in Oxford
As you pass under the Bridge of Sighs, the gothic spire of Essex College chapel flashes into view for a moment before being lost behind the Sheldonian again. Sublime.
An Oxford landlord will have to pay over Β£11,000 after poor conditions were uncovered in one of his rental properties. Faults included an inadequate fire alarm, lacking ventilation, missing stair guards, and badly maintained fire doors. www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article...
22.07.2025 17:42 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Dodged that today, got over North Wessex Downs via Combe Gibbet which was a fair slog
22.07.2025 17:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wantage is a bit of a bugger to get to by bike but a very jolly ride to Winchester
22.07.2025 17:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wantage π€ Winchester
Proper good statues of Alfred the Great π«Ά
Pomodoro did very much get me through writing up my PhD!
22.07.2025 17:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yep there was a deadline - writing AGM minutes up from notes for a meeting on Wednesday π
21.07.2025 11:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0