Visit to Oxford

[David Nicholson]

Thank you David for these beautiful pictures.
You showed some very interesting plants!
I enjoyed seeing these beautiful borders at Waterperry's.
One question: do you remember the height of the Inula salicina?
It looks very much like I. ensifolia which is mostly just 25 cm.

Luit, I would guess something like 30/35 cm.

[David Nicholson]

Luc, I had a pint in a pub that claims to have been Morse's 'local' in the series. I also must admit to having had another pint in the Eagle and Child (Bird and the Baby!) where C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien are alleged to have done some drinking (the most expensive pint of bitter I have ever had!) see  http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/stgiles/tour/west/48_49_eagle.htm and http://www.mythsoc.org/inklings/

We'll have to compare expensive pints David.

One pint of bitter and a half of lager shandy =  £5-40, I'm still not fully recovered!

[David Nicholson]

OOOps!
Did I show my 'colours' there David.
Try:  http://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/the_college_pages/buildings_and_gardens.htm.
Designed (building, garden, and everything else) by Arne Jacobsen.
Took garden design into the 21st Century (back in the '60's !)

Didn't get into St. Cath's indeed we seem to have chosen a day when a lot of the Colleges were closed for some reason, but, later in the afternoon we had a quick look around Trinity. Lovely, which I suppose they all are in their own way, wish I had been endowed with the brain to have attended one of them (or even one at Fen Polytechnic!!). Had a laugh when I read that St. Annes is colloquially known as 'Stans'.

[Giles]

David, John Richards shares your enthusiasm for Waterperry - see his entry on the AGS website
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/
then go: Members Diaries>Northumberland Diary> 14 July (Entry 82)
I would agree with your comment about the excellent tea and cakes there!