Well I have now recovered from my epic day in Oxford. The purpose of the trip being to empty Chris`s house (ok... slight exaggeration... chris`s room) into my fiat Stilo... after 4 years of uni one certainly accumulates some stuff.
But as Chris was leaving St Annes college and Oxford for good we wanted to have a last look around the city. It was Open Day for the colleges so we were able to have a shuffty round about 7 of them with a walk through The Parks etc en route.
Lady Margaret Hall had grotty coloured bricks so that didnt get off to a very good start!
Keble was very nice and fairly central and we liked the bricks so we gave that college a big tick.
St John`s was also a big hit... lovely buildings if you ignored the "Beehive" residential block... I`m sure they were lovely rooms inside!
New College... WOW! Fabulous grounds, you walk through the arch way to lovely big lawns and make your way to The Mound which was intriguing until we actually walked UP it!!!
Yes Soooze I think it DID squeak back at us when we clapped at it... the people at the top vehemently denied any participation in any squeaking anyway!
But New provided no catering facilities for first years so when your mutson and farti come to stay theres no kitchen for a cuppa tea(BE WARNED EM your mutson likes her tea) I suspect a fair bit of kettle smuggling and George Foreman schneaking goes on in New college!
Magdalen...We all fell in love with this college, its magnificent cloisters and lovely chapel and it`s own deer park....I expect a lot of candidates apply here.
Christ Church is the richest college due to all the tourists(are they all Harry Potter fans??!!)We tried to work out which seat in the fantastic dining room Hermione sat in when they filmed the films. You couldn`t help looking up to see if an owl was delivering the Daily Prophet...
It was a brilliant morning, warm and sunny too. Pity that didnt last for the journey home, not only was the car full to busting, it absolutely hammered it down on the motorway, so not only could I not see out of the windows... I was being sprayed by all the lorries. No wonder my arms ached the next morning.
And just for the record.. all Chris`s stuff is now all over the landing(tho to be fair he HAS started sorting it out which must be a record cos he hasnt been home a week yet!) Strangely enough he must have brought a pet mouse home with him because the items in the fridge have been very slowly and schneakily disappearing...........
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