Thick As Theives

Daly's Visit Nottingham

Winter Walk

Bonfire Night

To celebrate the evening Robin, Niki and the kids came over with a box of fireworks.

We all enjoyed the sparklers.

Adam.

Emma.

Amy.

Followed by a nice amount of sparkle.

Oxford

Dan got one of his posters accepted for the Oxford Foundation Symposium a national conference for foundation doctors. Roy and Julie looked after the girls for the day while we drove down to Oxford. We got there in good time and registered for the day then did a bunk into town and had a few hours exporing the city centre before we had to get back for lunch and the poster presentations.

It was nice wandering the covered market and listening to a busker singing a little Irish Jitty 'you are your mammies prescious boy' to a little kid.

The Radcliffe Camera was very impressive, I felt as though I was in some Italian city... the only difference was the cold.

As we were admiring this interesting building on Folly Bridge a friendly local flying by on his bike shouted out that it used to be a brothel.

In ther short time we had, we even managed to scramble up Castle Mound to get this view of the city.

We were back in time for lunch and for Dan to give his presentation. He looks ever so cheery considering the subject of his poster! We enjoyed the rest of the afternoon in various workshops and talks. All in all a very enjoyable day. We had the choice to finish the day off with the local fireworks display but I was quite happy to call it a day and not freeze to death.

Liecester

We had a lovely Autumn trip to catch up with Anna and Isaac, take a look at the New Walk Museum and stop by the university.

Fortunately for me, there was an exhibit of one of my favourite photographers August Sander (German portrait photographer 1876-1964). They had a large collection of his prints many of which I had not seen before from his Face of Our Time project. The kids enjoyed the new dino area. I've not been in the museum for a couple of years I think and they've done a very nice job.

Gorgeous crisp leaves up New Walk and Anna attacking Amy!

We were rather impressed with the new Student Union building, they've got really nice big open social areas. Very different from the old Percy Gee Building with it's long narrow corridors which all looked the same.

Bobbie exploring the corridors of the Geology department. It was nice to be back and chat to Norry and Jan to name a few. The welcome wasn't quite so warm in Geography where the secretary asked us if we had permission to have children in the building until Kevin Tansey turned up and we had a good chat.