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On a cloudy day that threatened rain, I ventured into Oxford to see how the world is getting along. With Covid loosening its grip the city is becoming busy again, noticeably so over the past couple of weeks. Perhaps people just want to get out, spend money and get on with their lives? I took […]
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Here in England at the end of February we are getting hopeful that Spring is almost here. Today the Sun came out and the wind dropped to offer us our first early Spring-like day. It is still a bit cold so the puffer-jackets will be in use for a while yet. Today after delivering a […]
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Yesterday I took a few moments to stand and sketch the Cupola of the Sheldonian Theatre again. The nearby Radcliffe Square was full of heavy-duty filming equipment with powerful spotlights illuminating the Radcliffe Camera itself for a new film, Willy Wonka, apparently. Walking through the quad at the Bodleian to the Sheldonian was stepping away […]
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Gee’s restaurant is set amongst the well-to-do Victorian houses on the Banbury Road in North Oxford. It occupies what was once a greenhouse and conservatory, built at the end of the 18th century as a sort of forerunner of our modern garden-centres. Back in the balmy days of summer I spent an hour or so […]
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In the summer when I took the opportunity to go out and do some sketching I settled on our local Skoda garage, With urban sketching you don’t always end up drawing what you expect but that is probably part of its charm, where drawing and observation prompt you to draw things you might not have […]
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