It's 8:30am and I've been up for four hours - Steve and I got up early this morning, fell into yesterday's clothes and cycled to town half-asleep to see the madness that is May Day in Oxford. And I am SO GLAD we did, it was the most awesome morning.

( May madness )

This morning I dragged myself out of bed at 4am, got dressed and cycled through the dark and the early-morning birdsong to town. It's the 1st of May, and Oxford goes totally nuts on the first of May. I always wanted to see the choral singing from the top of Magdalen Tower, which is an ancient tradition and which I first became aware of from the ( Read more... )