The Photographic Habit

The Covered Market

A little tour of the Covered Market:

Some of the offerings in one of the butcher shops:

It's game season, so there's a lot of dead animals hanging up:

London Visit

Coming from Oxford, I got off the Oxford bus at Marble Arch,

and went down into the tube to get to the Design Museum.

The Design Museum is right next to Tower Bridge, next to the Thames. Tower Bridge - which was, as of this morning, not in Texas.

The Design Museum:

And the back streets around the wharf behind the Design Museum

After nosing around the Borough Market (closed on Mondays) and Neal's Yard Dairy (great cheese), it was back on the tube, back to Marble Arch, and back on the bus to Oxford.

19 November

Magdalen Bridge

Two of Turl Street:

Balliol's annual Christmas tree in Broad Street:

And the fairly dodgy-looking way this (~20 foot tree) is held upright:

31 October

I had an hour to kill between lectures, so I took a little stroll around the streets behind Exam Schools.

Down Logic Lane,

along Magpie Lane,

and up Merton Street.

This is the back of University College (or maybe Oriel … I'm not totally sure which)

Edited to add: You may notice that everything looks like it's leaning a little in many of these pictures; that's partly an optical effect, but the streets and buildings do tend to be a bit slanty in the back lanes of Oxford.

29 October

Finally had a day where I wasn't running about in a panic, and fortunately it also happened to be a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Since I had a bit of spare time between a meeting for the paper and meeting friends for tea, I walked up through Jericho to take a walk around Port Meadow.

Walking through Jericho:

Port Meadow is a large, very flat field north of Oxford along the Thames. At the top of Port Meadow is The Trout pub and Godstow, where I'm doing water training with the firsts this term. You can't see them in these pictures, but horses and cows are allowed to roam free across the meadow.