Jill, this is such a stunning post! Thank you for the riproaring ride through the boiling rapids of Oxford finals!
I had a cousin at Oxford, and a while after he’d graduated we met on a rushhour train out of London to meet up with his friends for the May morning shebang. We drank too much cheap wine and ate runny Brie, inadvertently spreading it across the tatty carpet of the room of his college friend. Stayed up all night, drinking interrupted by a fire alarm, and experienced GREAT excitement in the evacuation aftermath to see all four members of the latest series of that college’s BBC University Challenge quiz team in their dressing gowns on the quad. Watched some idiots in evening dress chuck themselves in the river, and got an early train back to London to sleep off our cheese, wine and brushing-up-against-academia excesses.
Thank you so much for causing me to recall those memories this morning! 😊
Helen went to New College and went through all that too. Our first home was at the end of Cowley Road. We moved away from Oxford in 2006. I went to Oxford Brookes, I always thought my 2:1 meant I had achieved a good balance between partying and working!
Ah that’s hilarious Rebecca!! 😂 Good times. Thanks for sharing, I love that. Our college quiz team never covered themselves in much glory as far as I can remember but dressing gowns in the middle of the night is a new low. 😅 Also it’s the chucking in the river I can’t quite wrap my head around the most. The number of rats.... 😳
Jill, this is such a stunning post! Thank you for the riproaring ride through the boiling rapids of Oxford finals!
I had a cousin at Oxford, and a while after he’d graduated we met on a rushhour train out of London to meet up with his friends for the May morning shebang. We drank too much cheap wine and ate runny Brie, inadvertently spreading it across the tatty carpet of the room of his college friend. Stayed up all night, drinking interrupted by a fire alarm, and experienced GREAT excitement in the evacuation aftermath to see all four members of the latest series of that college’s BBC University Challenge quiz team in their dressing gowns on the quad. Watched some idiots in evening dress chuck themselves in the river, and got an early train back to London to sleep off our cheese, wine and brushing-up-against-academia excesses.
Thank you so much for causing me to recall those memories this morning! 😊
Helen went to New College and went through all that too. Our first home was at the end of Cowley Road. We moved away from Oxford in 2006. I went to Oxford Brookes, I always thought my 2:1 meant I had achieved a good balance between partying and working!
Absolutely 💯 me too Richard
Powerful memories written exquisitely- too much for a blog.... but great foundation for your first novel.
Thank you 💕 that's the goal....
Ah that’s hilarious Rebecca!! 😂 Good times. Thanks for sharing, I love that. Our college quiz team never covered themselves in much glory as far as I can remember but dressing gowns in the middle of the night is a new low. 😅 Also it’s the chucking in the river I can’t quite wrap my head around the most. The number of rats.... 😳
This was so good Jill! 👏🏼 Are you writing a book because this is a book I would absolutely read! Your use of description is brilliant! ✨💕