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Without The Bod
Eight years, six months, and one week after I started at the Bodleian, we've gone our separate ways. It's genuinely been the nicest place I've ever worked; the Communications team are a tightly-knit, supportive, caring bunch of diverse misfits and I love them all dearly, but the time had come for bodleian, music, employment, video, job, memorable, drinking, party, cakeEnding on a High
I celebrated the New Year by climbing Ben Nevis with Robin. He's written about it at https://52reflect.com/2019/01/02/no-52-ben-nevis/, or you can get my take at https://danq.me/2019/01/03/ending-20 Years Of Blogging
Come next week, I'll have been blogging for 20 years - significantly over half my life. Over that time, a lot has changed on the Web, in the world, and for me: how has my blog (and my blogging) adapted?
https://danq.me/2018/10/08/20-years-of-blogging/Bread Winner
Yesterday, Ruth and I attended a Festive Breads Workshop at the Oxford Brookes Restaurant Cookery and Wine School, where we had a hands-on lesson in making a variety of different (semi-)seasonal bread products. It was a fantastic experience and gave us both skills and confidence that we'd haveQuickly, Before They Turn The Glass Into Lesbians!
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So, what have I been up to this weekend, you ask. Well…
"Cover The Mirrors" Launch Party
On Friday I took the train up to Preston. The train I was on broke down at Machynlleth when they linked it up to the carriages that had come down the Pwllheli line, and the repairs ( Read more... )QParty - Part 2 - The Party
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After extended delays, here’s the remainder of my "looking back at QParty" post.
The party kicked off at 6pm, and guests trickled in over about about half hour to either side, which gave Claire and I ample time to try to greet everybody as they came through the doors. At ( Read more... )QParty - Part 1 - Before The Party
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Well, it’s been three weeks since QParty (and the heap of blog posts it generated) and about thirty weeks since Claire and I changed our names to Q, and I suppose it’s time to write my piece about QParty itself - I was stalling on doing so until I’d uploaded a majority of ( Read more... )QMoon Virtual Postcard #4
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Pompeii was simply stunning; so much more than I’d expected. For a 2000 year old town it’s in excellent condition: in some places, it’s even possible to make out painting on the walls of the villas and pretty much whole buildings, as well as mosaics, statues, fountains and ( Read more... )QMoon Virtual Postcard #3
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The motorists have a game here in Napoli. The aim is, over the course of your journey, to (justifiably) sound your horn at other motorists more times than other motorists sound theirs at you. The taxi driver who brought us from the station to our hotel yesterday is ( Read more... )QMoon Virtual Postcard #2
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We arrived in Rome last night to find a city teeming with life. There’s a buzz everywhere, and a crowd whereever you look. Roma Termini, the central station, stretches for miles and is bustling with commuters and tourists, fighting their way through ticket office queues or ( Read more... )