Country Livin'

The Eponymous Castle






My college is seven miles outside the center of Oxford and Sundays and Wednesdays I come back late from Hertford College. Cuddesdon has no nighttime bus service, so I take a bus to the village of Wheatly and walk a mile or two to Cuddesdon. The other night the fog was so thick that I couldn't see more than a few feet in front of me. As I walked along I could hear animals moving in the woods, and restless birds in the trees. It was creepy.




I am happy to say that the fog is rare, and several days a week, evenings look more like this



Last week workmen came and cut back the hedges which line the road to Cuddesdon. There are grassy banks on either side of the road which serve as sidewalks, but the hedges were so over grown that it was much easier to walk in the road than to navigate the sharp branches, especially in the dark. Now the hedges are mangled, but better them than me.




My Window.