{"id":222,"date":"2007-07-31T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T23:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2007\/07\/31\/home-from-oxford\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T23:37:23","slug":"home-from-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/07\/home-from-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Home from Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usu\u00adal, the trip to the XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School<\/a> in Oxford was excel\u00adlent. I learned a lot and met some inter\u00adest\u00ading people and had fun too, even though I\u2019ve decided that two trips to Europe, with a one-year-old, in 26 days, is a little too much travel in a short peri\u00adod of time. The XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School had day\u00adcare, oth\u00ader\u00adwise I really would\u00adn\u2019t have been able to cope. I think the baby enjoyed the trip as well; she made lots of new friends and I star\u00adted call\u00ading her \u201cPrin\u00adcess\u201d because of the way she waved and simpered. I am extremely grate\u00adful for all the work the Sum\u00admer School organ\u00adisers and the day\u00adcare people put in to make the trip as easy as possible.<\/p>\n

I did\u00adn\u2019t see a lot of the flood\u00ading and was only tan\u00adgen\u00adtially affected by it; I do have memor\u00adies of the water slosh\u00ading around on the arrivals floor in Ter\u00admin\u00adal 1 when I arrived on the morn\u00ading of Fri\u00adday 20th July and the attempts people were mak\u00ading to stop it going down into the base\u00adment where the Tube and the tun\u00adnels to get to oth\u00ader parts of the air\u00adport are loc\u00adated. The tun\u00adnel out of Heath\u00adrow was down to one lane and it was closed in the oth\u00ader dir\u00adec\u00adtion. I was\u00adn\u2019t sur\u00adprised to learn later that sev\u00ader\u00adal flights had been cancelled.<\/p>\n

Although in the centre of Oxford, where we were, there were few signs of the floods (a couple of roads closed off), sur\u00adround\u00ading areas were strongly affected. One friend who cycled in to meet us at the pub crawl on Wed\u00adnes\u00adday found it sur\u00adreal that his area was full of sand\u00adbags and people pan\u00adick\u00ading about the rising ground\u00adwa\u00adter, while a short bike ride away people were going shop\u00adping, going to the pub, and gen\u00ader\u00adally behav\u00ading the way they would without the floods.<\/p>\n

The punt\u00ading was can\u00adcelled of course, the Cher\u00adwell was just too high and too fast for it to be safe; there was a cer\u00adtain amount of nervous\u00adness about los\u00ading a del\u00adeg\u00adate or two.<\/p>\n

\"Punts<\/a><\/p>\n

Before the Sum\u00admer School star\u00adted, I met up with a friend on the Sunday for lunch. We went to The Fishes in North Hink\u00adsey, a cute little place with a ver\u00adandah and a play\u00adground and a pic\u00adnic area. Which would have been great for the baby to crawl around in, if it had\u00adn\u2019t been under a cer\u00adtain amount of water at the time.<\/p>\n

\"flooded_playground\"<\/a> <\/a>\"flooded_picnic_area\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All in all, I was quite glad to see the sun again when I got home to Van\u00adcouver, and to be happy we don\u2019t live on a flood plain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usu\u00adal, the trip to the XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School in Oxford was excel\u00adlent. I learned a lot and met some inter\u00adest\u00ading people and had fun too, even though I\u2019ve decided that two trips to Europe, with a one-year-old, in 26 days, is a little too much travel in a short peri\u00adod of time. The XML<\/span> \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cHome from Oxford\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}