Comments on: Oxford in the autumn

By: ms. b.

ms. b. — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:21:08 +0000

I’ve just got back from my first ever visit to Oxford, and I thought it was gorgeous. I’m loving all the little patisseries you don’t get in North Yorkshire, and the indie clothing shops, though I might be a little biased seeing as Oxford now means getting to see Matt!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:50:51 +0000

Yes, I freely admit that would hit more buttons. As you say, house prices is a bit Daily Mail, NotW is sex, drugs, and celebrities, and your proposed headline is a bit long (although replacing ‘asylum-seekers’ with ‘foreigners’ might make this possible)

By: Chris Brooke

Chris Brooke — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:44:39 +0000

“Hits all the tabloid buttons, really.”

Only some of them.

Imagine if the same headline continued “… with Asylum Seekers Threatens House Prices” (although perhaps that’s to migrate from the concerns of the NotW to those of the Mail and the Express.

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:17:58 +0000

Hi there, I’ve placed you and Jo on my blogroll. I hope that’s Ok. Any problems, and I’ll remove it for you.
Royston

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:06:58 +0000

Speaking of headlines, today’s News of the World headline is unimprovable for a tabloid newspaper: “Cocaine Kate’s 3 in bed Lesbian Orgies”. Hits all the tabloid buttons, really.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:33:52 +0000

Or maybe I should write about the splash on today’s Daily Mail frontpage, “Labour’s tax on the family“, based (surprise surprise) on another report from the marriage-fetishists of Civitas.

I’m just impressed that they’ve managed to make a headline longer than four words.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:06:38 +0000

Just to be grumpy for a moment:

A city centre built before the advent of poured concrete

But developed after!

Oxford … is beautiful as few other cities are

See above - esp Cornmarket.

BUT

I agree - Oxford is, on the whole, an amazing place to live, though I’m sure more double decker buses would help more people appreciate just how beautiful the colleges and top halves of the buildings on, say, the High Street, are.

By: Chris Brooke

Chris Brooke — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:32:22 +0000

Whether I love Oxford in the Autumn really depends on what kind of Autumn we get…

But when I arrived here in October 1992, I didn’t much like the aesthetics of the city at all, and it was only in the early Spring light, around February, that I noticed just how striking some of the buildings could be and began to enjoy them.

The longer I live here (and I’m just starting my ninth year here), the more I like the buildings, and not just the well-known ones, either.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:56:56 +0000

I do miss Oxford. Haringey has its beautiful buildings, and there’s a certain beauty to sunset over east London from my seventh storey office window, the low evening sun raking the redbrick terraces beautifully, but Oxford, even if its surrounding landscape is a bit dull, is beautiful as few other cities are.