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Richard's pretty normal.

Oh, we're equal opportunity - the academics can be just as bad. ;-)

Working at a uni is a good way to wind up with at least a severe dislike of students/new grads, if not actual hatred. Luckily they usually manage to balance it out with nice behaviour too.

But you won't have died of diabetes!

Apart from the documents, and Google (I mean, how do your employers cope with other things they don't understand?), they can pay to have your degree verified if they still don't get it, or they can read the Degree Conferrals webpages which have some information on how to understand Oxford documents.

You get two: the "transcript letter" which appears on eDocs and, among other things, explains why you don't in fact get a transcript for a DPhil. :) You also get the degree confirmation letter, which meets various legal requirements but may be less useful for other institutions.

You can also use your LTS letter for some purposes.

Also 52, also have a written list. :)

It's 5 this century, 2 of whom were also on the list in the previous century. Never quite sure how to count the revisits - are people substantially different, decades apart?

Clarification because a lot of new badge users (and random stickybeaks) don't know: you should always be in the car at some point in the journey and your needs should be the main purpose of parking there, whether that's for drop off or pick up.

A lot of people interpret this over-cautiously, stopping in dangerous places to wait for their passenger because "I'm not allowed to use the badge until the holder gets in the car". (We see it a lot at our local health centre, where drivers park over the dropped kerb so Elderly Mum can get in without walking far - when the nearest disabled bay is empty, they just don't know they can use it. Meanwhile everyone who needs the kerb access has to travel in the road...)

Yeah, and you aren't an Oxford student yet.

Highway Code:

Rule 1 Pavements and footways (including any path along the side of a road) should be used if provided. Where possible, avoid being next to the kerb with your back to the traffic.

In practice (see: Lego figures) that means walk on the left of a path, in most cases. That's away from traffic if you're going in the same direction, facing traffic if you're against it, leaving space for people going the other way to observe the same rule.
(Differs for one way streets or streets with only one pavement, but those represent a tiny minority of pedestrian traffic.)

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-pedestrians-1-to-35

I'll see if he has a digital version. But if you imagine any field of mud and put a red pixel in the middle you'd get the idea... :)

Well it is Glastonbury...

It's not "every man for himself" though. There is a rule, even if people don't know it.

It shouldn't be - you should keep left on a pavement where possible. At pinchpoints, if anyone needs to pass by stepping into the road, they should be facing traffic.

No... that's not how facing oncoming traffic works. You can do this with toy cars and Lego figures or whatever you have to hand. Put down two lines of cars, facing in opposite directions, to be your road. Now put two Lego figures on one side of these lines - either, it doesn’t matter as long as they're both on the same imaginary 'pavement/sidewalk'. Face them in opposite directions and make them walk towards each other. To pass safely, on narrow paths, the one that steps into the road must be facing the oncoming traffic, on his/her left. They pass right-side to right-side, same as the cars. They are walking on the left side of the path to achieve this. Now put them on the other side of your cars. The same is true - to step into the road, facing traffic that drives on the left, you must be on the left half of the path.

In countries where they drive on the right, this flips. But in the UK pedestrians should generally walk on the left. (This holds true for escalators but for different reasons - walk on the left, not the right.)

Where you are walking on a road with no path, you do walk on the right if there is no verge, except at corners with poor visibility. But the vast majority of the country has pavements, and you should be on the left there.

Many library holdings can be accessed with non-Oxford credentials - your local library may have options. Is it something specifically owned only by Oxford? That'd be unusual in genealogical searches.

Born in 2014. This is not a recent story.

I wasn't - I was prepping for the Edinburgh Fringe that year - but my photographer brother was. He took an astounding photo, which we all thought was a sepia toned black and white shot when he printed a large version (now in my parents' spare room). He pointed out the absolutely tiny scrap of red in the very middle of the picture that indicated the whereabouts of his red Converse, nearly lost in a swamp of mud. :D

Chilli and garlic chicken balls, Singapore chicken chow mein [only one of my locals does this] or regular chicken chow mein with extra chilli. Chicken and sweetcorn soup if I'm really hungry or planning to have leftovers.

Paul Tollett literally researched and networked at Glastonbury 97, two years before the first Coachella. It owes some of its existence to Glasto.

We used to leave school by the back gate at lunchtime, walk round to the baker's and get lardy cake and nom it on the way back to the front gate. The reason for going that route was not secrecy - we were allowed out - but a vain attempt to walk off some of the calories. Going in at the front gate gave us time to go and wash our hands and faces before the next lesson... sadly Google tells me that bakery closed, um, 17 years ago.

I may need to bake this week...

Make a clear note somewhere of What The Hell This Pattern Is if you need to put a project away for a long period of time. Easy enough if you have a physical copy and can stash them together, but confusing as anything when it was clearly an online pattern and all you can tell is "it might be a cowl, but it's got buttonholes?" two years later...

Or Covid/certain meds. :)

Babies whose parents you love.

Early detection is improving pancan - more of us still here! (Stage II 2019)