Oxford comma

London is a very long (and good!) story so I'll skip it for now.

We are currently having a beer in the Eagle and Child, or "Bird and Baby". It's a small quiet pub in Oxford with goodish music (KT Tunstall, Jeff Buckley, The Feeling), strange beers, a decent menu, and 900 extra awesome points for being the very pub where where Tolkien and CS Lewis hung out for decades! We were going to take ourselves on a Tolkien / CS Lewis tour but we only got as far as this which was the first stop. The brochure was badly designed so we didn't want to read it.

I'm having a chocolate flavoured beer which is... interesting. Like, in a bad way.

We are not writing any fantasy epics.

It's probably a good thing that we haven't seen much TLOTR souvenirs or you'd all be getting tacky rings of power when I get back.

We're doing a lot of sitting down and cafe/pub-ing today which is a huge relief after the rush of London.

Oxford town is beautiful. It's like a town (city?) sized version of the USYD quad area but older and grander and with less hipsters but significantly more bikes.

Next stop is Bath!

Written between 2pm and 8pm, 31 Jan. N