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Hello world.
I am home for the holidays, and have done the Cambridge visit. On Thursday I am doing an Oxford visit, more on which in a moment.
The CULES Golden Jubilee Ball was wonderful, as the many (260?) photos attest. I'm now one of probably very few who have played harp for and punned at Andy Hamilton in one evening. (I didn't know who he was six months ago, but that doesn't lessen my disproportionate sense of satisfaction.) Marvellous music - huge brass swing band during dinner, and lovely ceilidh band later.
Also wonderful was again seeing the Cambridge Tea Man. I now have another kilogram of teas to help while away my last few months in France. On an afternoon when we were meant to be busy with important ball-related organisation, benparker took me to the rather exciting new tea shop/cafe/thing and we accomplished tea while we contemplated accomplishing the more strenuous goals. They have a lovely cabinet on one wall made up of tiny drawers full of tea leaves. I had some China Blue Silver Needles, which costs £200/kg. A single pot was mercifully cheaper at £3.50. It was quite nice. Tasted slightly gingery. benparker and I later met a lovely but absolutely loopy lady who said that she'd tried that tea and cried at its beauty. She seemed slightly disappointed that I hadn't. Part of me was sad that I can't taste what she does. Another part of me thought she might have been a bit allergic to ginger.
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I'll be in Oxford Thursday 'til Saturday. While I'll be mostly with OULES in the evenings, first of all watching then being in The Aeneid: The Pantomime, my days are empty and need loving friends to fill them with tea and cake and things. Oxford folk who I haven't seen in an age - I miss all of you lots. Communicate your shared desire for tea via phones, comments or wordless shrieks and manic flailing gestures. I will respond in kind.
Also in the news
I have bought an Irish flute. It's in the post. Excited.
I am home for the holidays, and have done the Cambridge visit. On Thursday I am doing an Oxford visit, more on which in a moment.
The CULES Golden Jubilee Ball was wonderful, as the many (260?) photos attest. I'm now one of probably very few who have played harp for and punned at Andy Hamilton in one evening. (I didn't know who he was six months ago, but that doesn't lessen my disproportionate sense of satisfaction.) Marvellous music - huge brass swing band during dinner, and lovely ceilidh band later.
Also wonderful was again seeing the Cambridge Tea Man. I now have another kilogram of teas to help while away my last few months in France. On an afternoon when we were meant to be busy with important ball-related organisation, benparker took me to the rather exciting new tea shop/cafe/thing and we accomplished tea while we contemplated accomplishing the more strenuous goals. They have a lovely cabinet on one wall made up of tiny drawers full of tea leaves. I had some China Blue Silver Needles, which costs £200/kg. A single pot was mercifully cheaper at £3.50. It was quite nice. Tasted slightly gingery. benparker and I later met a lovely but absolutely loopy lady who said that she'd tried that tea and cried at its beauty. She seemed slightly disappointed that I hadn't. Part of me was sad that I can't taste what she does. Another part of me thought she might have been a bit allergic to ginger.
* * *
I'll be in Oxford Thursday 'til Saturday. While I'll be mostly with OULES in the evenings, first of all watching then being in The Aeneid: The Pantomime, my days are empty and need loving friends to fill them with tea and cake and things. Oxford folk who I haven't seen in an age - I miss all of you lots. Communicate your shared desire for tea via phones, comments or wordless shrieks and manic flailing gestures. I will respond in kind.
Also in the news
I have bought an Irish flute. It's in the post. Excited.