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A quick advert: a few times, people have said to me that they'd love to try rapper dancing, but that they're a bit scared because they're never done anything like it and they'll be crap. At the moment we have a few new people starting with Mabel Gubbins, and at least one of them has never even seen rapper dancing before. So, if you're female[*], and in Oxfordshire-ish, and you've ever thought you might like to give it a try, now would be a really great time - we'll[**] be teaching everything from the absolute basics.
http://mabelgubbins.co.uk
Practices are Tuesday evenings 8pm - 9pm for beginners (hardcore Mabels stay til 10pm), in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell.
[*] If you're male, and in Londonish, try Thrales. They're very welcoming of beginners. I can try and offer suggestions of other teams if neither of these suits.
[**] Where by "we" I apparently mean "I" - think I blinked at a critical moment at the AGM :(
http://mabelgubbins.co.uk
Practices are Tuesday evenings 8pm - 9pm for beginners (hardcore Mabels stay til 10pm), in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell.
[*] If you're male, and in Londonish, try Thrales. They're very welcoming of beginners. I can try and offer suggestions of other teams if neither of these suits.
[**] Where by "we" I apparently mean "I" - think I blinked at a critical moment at the AGM :(
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
(Interested to know how well or not it's being preserved. When I was at school with people from there it was "bri'llumso'll", I'm told that before that it was just "bri'll" - with a hint of a t but no more.)
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I was delighted to discover at the weekend that there is a place called Brill (not far off the A40). Apparently it is on a hill. With a mill. Town planning by Dr Zeuss!
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Disappointingly, I'm not sure I've ever been in that college. I don't think I've ever walked over the Bridge of Size. (I've always spelled it like that since I heard a friend's excellentlt nonsensical Oxford Walking Tour commentary, which included the comment that although it's small now, when it was first built it was a bridge of considerable size...)
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Btw when you come through the main entrance, at the top of the wall across Old Quad you can see the bedroom window that belonged to Steve Webb. I often went round for a cuppa. Steve always warmed his teapot carefully before use. I drop his name now because who wouldn't? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Webb
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Once, many years ago, I was meeting a friend from a cricket match, and was left rather confused about whether I was allowed to enter the Magdalen cricket clubhouse or not. I asked for assistance from someone who turned out to be a Magdalen fellow, who reprimanded me sternly: you're a member of the University! You don't wonder whether you're allowed in somewhere, you stride in through the front door as if you own the place!
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I had one strand of tutorials in the ground-floor room in the left corner of OB quad, which was famously (then) the room into which Sebastian Flyte had been sick through the window in the TV Brideshead Revisited. Granada had paid for the whole staircase to be redecorated.
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That story about being sick through a window in Brideshead Revisited is true, no doubt, but it was told about my room's window too! My address was in New Buildings and my room was the lower one of the two curvy ones under the turret. I'm now thinking that some entrepreneur could take tourists around every room that's said to have had its window puked through.
Since we're on Hertford anecdotes, here's another. When I was volunteering at the Night Cellar on Iffley Road, where people could stay if they were too young for the Night Shelter, one of our regular couples was a classic case of criminal, drug-addled bloke with clean supportive girlfriend. She casually mentioned that her man had burgled the staircase I was then living on.
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