floods

we escaped the floods. those four years of engineering and nerdy curiousity paid off because i was smart enough to check the flood maps before we bought. so after i got home on the wet friday night (4 hour trip via london), i stayed home for the best part of a week while the trains were out. luckily it coincided with Angela and Carl visiting, so i could make use of the time to cook, clean and otherwise prepare the nest for visitors.

the floods did hit our town (the bad area), and almost every town around us. We went into Oxford for a bit on wednesday and I gave Angela and Carl the tour while Adam headed off to a teaching commitment. We wandered to christchurch beach (usually a field) and tried to guess where the 'river' was. And then we had a great dinner at the Trout, which was surrounded by beautiful serene flooded fields, roads and rowing clubs on three sides, and the roaring thames on the fourth.

After four months of travelling, Ange and Carl were happy just to sit on a couch and watch english tv. so we got carl addicted to facebook, and watched all our favourite nerdy tv shows - 8 out of 10 cats, Qi, mock the week, etc. And generally just stayed nice and dry and well fed.

And on saturday, adam and i went to mass. now there is a phrase i never thought i would say! it was part of Adam's summer teaching course, and i went along due to my curiosity combined with the fact that it was in Trinity college chapel/cathedral (which was stunning).