Monday 28 October 2019
by Wulf
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When I visited Magnus at the start of October, I made an excursion to Penrhyn Castle, a nearby National Trust property. I often have mixed feelings about these big old country piles. The present edifice is not medieval but an … Continue reading
Monday 24 June 2019
by Wulf
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Apropos of nothing other than the fact that I’ve just been browsing my Flickr stream for recent things I haven’t shared here yet, this is a photo I took while travelling home from Leiden in April: I had a change … Continue reading
Wednesday 20 February 2019
by Wulf
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I like a building with a good atrium – a large and well-lit indoor space – and the Weston Library in Oxford is one of those places locally. I popped in there on a lunchtime stroll last week and sketched … Continue reading
Saturday 1 December 2018
by Wulf
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Terms at the University of Oxford are shorter than average. End of term was on Friday just gone and so a lot of students will have gone down for the holiday. One of the consequences is that colleges of the … Continue reading
Sunday 4 November 2018
by Wulf
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Most Sundays I get my sketchbook out and draw something during the service at St Clement’s. That something often involves reference to the bold neo-romanesque arches of this Georgian church. Once in a while, though, I get to sit in … Continue reading
Monday 13 November 2017
by Wulf
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Do you remember the scene in Crocodile Dundee (1986) when the eponymous hero is faced by a mugger with a knife and, quite unfazed, chuckles and pulls out a massive hunting knife with the immortal line “… that’s a knife”? … Continue reading