Following up on my last post, I witnessed another evening of Oxford students in action last Saturday, at Cardinals Cocktails. “Cardinals” is a recurring, well-known event on the Oxford University student social calendar, and is, according to this article, hosted by a drinking society called The Cardinals. As far as I know, they’re based at [...]

I may not have mentioned it on the blog so far, so I’ll do it now: back in September, I was lucky enough to find a place playing keyboards in one of Oxford University’s three main student-run jazz bands, the Donut Kings. Despite the somewhat silly name, I’m very happy to be one of the [...]

A few weekends ago, to the scandal of several of our Oxonian friends, we took a trip to that unmentionable rival university town, Cambridge. We had high hopes – we had heard that it was even more beautiful than Oxford, and certainly those glamorous shots of punters on the river Cam with King’s College and [...]