View from Sheldonian Coppola photos
View from Sheldonian Coppola
The Bodleian. Shooting into the sun.
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All Souls Spires Oxford photos
All Souls in late winter Sun.
Gargoyle looks approvingly at the Radcliffe Camera.
The last few minutes of sun, is often the best. It almost looks like autumn. …
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Magdalen college photos
It is a cold and wet January, but sometimes when the sun comes out, you can get some good photos.
I was cycling back home at around 4.00pm and a few rays of a late winter sun, hit the light stonework of Magdalen College and Magdalen Tower. …
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A belated New Year resolution
I didn’t make any New Year resolutions. Very bad.
So I will make a belated resolution. To spend less time reading rubbish on the internet. I wrote an article here: managing life with internet.
As an economist, I often read articles on economics at papers like the Guardian and Independent. In one sense they are free, but the cost is that your eyes often get drawn to reading the useless comments at the bottom of the articles. In the old days, these comments were more carefully thought about, selected and the best published as letters to the editor. – And I rarely read letters to the editor, because they weren’t very good anyway. So why have I spent time reading things that only give a mild sense of frustration?
I like this page – don’t read the comments. Three of my favourites.
“The problem with internet comments is that you can never really know who’s saying them.”
— Winston Churchill
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Clip from British Time Trial Championship 2015
In 2015, I entered the British Time Trial Championship. It was really expensive and awkward to enter.
Usually I do time trials governed by Cycling Time Trials, a UK body. But, this race came under UCI rules – the International cycling body have strict rules about size and shape of bike parts.
I had to spend £400 on a UCI fork and UCI compliant aerobars, to make my bike “UCI legal” …
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The journey of one hundred thousand paces begins with
I try to have a few more meditations on Christmas Eve. It’s a good feeling as the world slows down and becomes a little more reflective.
With the sun setting below the hills, I closed my door and burnt some incense. The pungent fragrance filling the room. Settled in the chair I felt unusually receptive for meditation. I started to chant AUM, AUM, AUM … – when from above, I heard an unexpected sound.
“The journey of one hundred thousand paces begins with a flat tyre and a broken fan-belt.” …
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University Church of St Mary Oxford photos
The University church of St Mary’s was used to host the first congregation of the University of Oxford from as early as 1252. A church has been recorded on his site from Anglo-Saxon times.
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Adventures in writing
Rather unexpectedly, on a rather dreary day, I had a good experience in a local church (a place I very rarely visit). It felt a certain grace, a feeling of newness. Hungry for more, I tried to repeat experience, but it wasn’t the same.
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The unexpected peace
From a concert by the music group, Ananda – performing the songs of Sri Chinmoy. Lord Mayor’s Chapel, Bristol, 13 December, 2015.
The entrance to the concert was through a modest wooden door. In a street filled with the brilliance of commerce, it would have been quite easy to walk straight past. But this reserved entrance, hid an unexpected sanctuary of peace – within the chapel a generosity of light and calm.
A small crowd gathers, patiently in the ancient wooden pews; a few intrepid souls, perhaps wondering what is to come.
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