Day 16. Visit to Oxford.

It all seems to be happening.  BMA getting worked up over 7 day working (shame on them), IDS does not know how to achieve the cuts and DC is hopefully doing good things in Brussels.  Meanwhile I am having dramas with the park and ride, losing 5p under bus, paying with 10 kroner and wanting change for a tenner in the end. You get away with it at my age. 

First stop Cafe Loco to meet one of my oldest and dearest friends.  Cafe Loco is great.  Brings back warm memories of working at Luther St Medical Centre with Oxford's homeless.  Hope it is still standing and IDS hasn't cottoned on.  Great place.  Good work. 

I once left my debit card here and the lovely owner traced me!  

Next we attend the 11.00 service at Oxford Unitarians, Harris Manchester Chapel, Mansfield Road.  This college is for mature students and the courses are mainly theological. The service is thoughtful and further inspiration comes from the lovely Burne-Jones windows. 

Another benugo lunch at the cafe in the newly opened Bodleian Weston Library, after chancing upon the Marks of Genius exhibition.  We view such treasures as the Kennicott hebrew bible produced in Spain in the 15th century. 

And this 16th century Qur'an

And from 1937

Next to Great British Drawings at the Ashmolean. A whole wall is dedicated to the pre-raphaelites, there is a Ravilius and a book of Edward Lear's Nonesense Poems