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	<description>an Australian expatriate in Oxford</description>
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		<title>Classic Car Show - Blenheim Palace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend Camilla and I went to a classic car show at Blenheim Palace. This was more Camilla's thing than mine &#8212; I've been known to joke that cars have size and colour but no hair &#8212; but the cars were rather cute. a Fiat Arbath a classic caravan classic cars classic beetles We also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/09/classic-car-show-blenheim-palace/</link>
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		<title>Guiting Power walk: Cotswolds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To take advantage of our newly acquired car, we headed off for a day in the Cotswolds. Our goal was to do a walk at Guiting Power (picked pretty much at random from a book Fifty Walks in the Cotswolds). But we had a bit of confusion with the roundabouts and intersections on the ring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/08/guiting-power-walk-cotswolds/</link>
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		<title>the Anglo-Saxon chain of being</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The British media really only cover Australia when there are major political events, disasters, or "man bites kangaroo" stories. Australians can get a feel for how this works by considering the treatment of New Zealand in the Australian media. And of course the United States does the same to Britain. Going the other way, of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/08/anglo-saxon-chain-of-being/</link>
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		<title>Wellcome Collection + The Habit of Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday our friends Val and Paul took us to see Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art, at the National Theatre in London. We had some time before the performance, so we looked at the Wellcome Collection. This has a permanent display "Medicine Man" showcasing part of Henry Wellcome's collection, which has everything from images [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/07/wellcome-collection-the-habit-of-art/</link>
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		<title>Birmingham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We only had little bits of time to see Birmingham, fitted in around the Europython 2010 conference we were attending. It's not the most attractive city, from what we saw. The shops seem segregated into large shopping malls (such as the Mailbox and the Bull Ring) and cars dominate in a way they certainly don't [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/07/birmingham/</link>
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		<title>Picking berries at Medley Manor Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[eating fresh jam the next morning Our friend Selma from Australia arrived last Saturday morning. She only had a day and a half here, so we whisked her off immediately, before jet lag could set in. We cycled up the Thames to Medley Manor Farm, where we picked blackberries and raspberries and strawberries and broad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/07/picking-berries/</link>
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		<title>Europython 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Europython 2010 was conveniently in Birmingham &#8212; an hour forty by bus &#8212; and Camilla was going with two of her colleagues, so I tagged along. As a sysadmin I've never done any large-scale programming, but Python has been my programming language of choice for fifteen years. The talks were a mixed bunch, and picking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/07/europython-2010/</link>
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		<title>Upgrading my camera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For five and a half years now I've been using an Olympus E-1, which as digital cameras go is now something of an antique, since it was released seven years ago. I bought the E-1 with a 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 lens &#8212; a fast standard zoom (28-108 equivalent) with decent macro performance (0.52x equivalent) &#8212; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/07/olympus-e1-upgrade/</link>
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		<title>Our first guests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gabi was our first visitor, but she stayed with my sister. So Matthew and Colene were our first house guests, staying for two days as part of a trip around the UK and Europe. punting is serious work! Jenny showed us around Chirstchurch, so we got to see her rooms and the Jabberwocky tree as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/07/our-first-guests/</link>
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		<title>a bicycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought myself a bicycle to replace the one that was stolen, and have been cycling around for a couple of weeks now. My bicycle is an old English three-speed, refurbished by the Oxford Cycle Workshop (which is conveniently just around the corner from us). This isn't going to win any races and is far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2010/07/bicycle/</link>
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