Diary of a Donkeybody - MND musings (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
I'm glad to report that my experiences with my new dentist and the swine 'flu jab this week have been positive. The dentist, John, was genial and even reckoned I've done quite a good job at cleaning my teeth. I've become so used to being told off for not doing it properly that I made my apologies in advance. Anyway although I've got lots of fillings he said I kept them surprisingly well. And I didn't...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Details of a £10m upgrade of Oxford railway station are unveiled by Network Rail and Oxfordshire County Council.
Jobs in USA | Jobs in Bangalore, Canada, UK,... (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Our client, an established building services consultancy have a role for a graduate or junior sustainability engineer. The job title is Building Sciences Engineer.Role: Building Science Engine...
Eclecticity (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
That neat little widget below right known as feedjit, lets me see where my small band of de.lightful non-readers and non-listeners hail from. It's fun to see who comes to the main page. It's especially fun to see repeat offenders. Some I can guess who they are, some are under my radar. If you want to self-report, send me an email. The police will be after all of us eventually anyway . This is to salute...
Zoé Patrick - Local News and Views (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Congratulations to all at CERN with the circulation of two beams of protons after the successful restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Having lived in Geneva for some time (my husband is a particle physicist), its quite astounding that many years later I am sitting in Oxfordshire and writing this blog post using the World Wide Web - another technological advance from CERN. Another Oxfordshire...
Oxford Respect: The Unity Coalition (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Stop Climate Change Demonstration Oxford Stop Climate Chaos Coalition is running subsidised coaches to the demonstration to get as many people there as possible. Coaches leave St Giles at 10a.m. Tickets Cost £10 waged and £8 unwaged. There is also a special price of £3 for members of Oxfordshire UNISON health branch. Tickets can be bought online below http://web.bethere.co.uk/OSCC/...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Museum 'of story and storytelling' planned for Oxford | Books | guardian.co.uk From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK's most enduring literary creations. Now a �2.5m donation from an anonymous private benefactor means the first steps have been...
Business Blog Reviews (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Builders Oxfordshire MJ Building Contractors provide a range of building services throughout Oxfordshire and the surrounding areas. There builders services have considerable experience in all types of specialist building work including new build, extensions and renovations, dry stone walling, plastering, rendering, decorating, tiling, carpentry, roofing, and plastering. Carpentry Services - Fitted...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"The Story Museum has existed online for the past four years, holding events across Oxfordshire and running storytelling pilots in schools, but [a £2.5 million] donation enables it to start constructing a permanent home in Oxford."...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Anonymous £2.5m donation paves the way for a major new children's attraction, due to open in 2014 From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK's most enduring literary creations. Now a £2.5m donation from an anonymous private benefactor means the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Swinford toll bridge earns around £190,000 a year and will set potential buyers back about £1.25m It's enough to make the Three Billy Goats Gruff trip over in glee: the chance to own your very own working toll bridge – one that also doubles as a private tax haven. Swinford toll bridge near the village of Eynsham in Oxfordshire is for sale at auction with a guide price of £1m-£1.25m....
NB Zindagi (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Since we left Blisworth in mid-September, we knew that we were really planning to head south, down the Thames to Reading and then on to the Kennet and Avon, but we seemed to have been trundling up and down the Oxford Canal, with short trips on the Thames thrown in for good measure. We enjoyed it, but now it was time to begin the journey south in earnest! Ironically, to start off southwards we needed...
The Brooks Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Conference: The Mechanisms of Self-Control: Lessons from Addiction May 13-14 2010, University of Oxford Loss of control over some aspects of behavior is usually held to be a defining feature of addiction. But the loss of control envisaged is somewhat mysterious. The series of actions in which addicts engage in order to procure and consume their drug is not reflexive; should it nevertheless be properly...
UK400ClubRareBirdAlert (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The juvenile ROSE-COLOURED STARLING was still present today in Forest Hill village, just two miles NE of Oxford. The bird was first seen on or about 23 October (according to local residents) and is favouring the gardens along Mickle Way in the NW end of the village at SP 584 080. The bird is consorting with a small flock of Common Starlings and can be regularly seen as it perches on the roofs, aerials...
The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
There have been a few radio ventures on the F-word front over the past week. You can catch Louise Livesey talking about last Friday's Reclaim the Night in Oxford on BBC Radio Oxfordshire (2.04.15) and regular guest blogger Kate Smuthwaite...
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cotswoldaerials | 06/10/2009
The Digital Switch over in Witney will start in 2010/2011. If you live in Witney you can receive Digital tv now, below are your current options. Freeview - Digital TV through a TV aerial. To receive Freeview in Witney you will require a wideband digital aerial upgrade to the Oxford transmitter. Freesat - Freesat receives Digital through a satellite dish, this insures a perfect digital picture. Sky...
cotswoldaerials | 06/10/2009
The Digital Switch over in Burford, Oxfordshire will start in 2010/2011. If you live in Burford you can receive Digital tv now, below are your current options. Freeview - Digital TV through a TV aerial. To receive Freeview in Burford you will require a digital aerial upgrade to the Oxford transmitter, you may also require a masthead amplifier as signal levels for Freeview are medium strength in Burford....
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