It was a mixed weekend for me. Saturday i went to the OU dayschool at oxford. It was cold and raining so i decided not to stay for the day. The morning though was ok.

I set off around 7:30 and stopped at Warwick services at 8 for a stretch and some breakfast. The breakfasts in the restaurant were quite a rip off. Huge meals for 7 and 8 pounds, and nothing much smaller (at least nothing on the price board). So i went to the coffee shop at the services where they did a panini and the largest mug of tea i have ever seen. That was precisley what i needed. I set off again at around 8:30 and made good time, arriving at the park and ride around 9:17am. Pretty good value for money at 2:50 for both parking and a return bus trip. I got off and walked around in a circle before finding the ashmolean. There was a dearth of OU students, and i got a bit worried until a young lad (about 18 or 19) was randonly going around asking people if they were with the OU. So i piped up. He was nice enough, and about 10 minutes after we had been asked to meet, the two tutors and 4 other students turned up. We split into groups to look at the pottery, so i was with the young lad. It was a really good experience to see these pots so close up. Normally you see them only as pictures in books.

We then all went off to the cast gallery, to look at various casts. We went round in one large group as there were so few of us. And when we were there i saw Thom Yorke from radiohead! He was sketching with his son, and spending a quiet rainy Saturday.

As it was really to rainy and cold to spend the afternoon taking snaps i went back to birmingham and met lindsay and marcus the fort jester. Marcus was in the wacky warehouse and lindsay and i had a drink, nachos and caught up.

The mixed news was that Joolz phoned me last night to say that one of our uni friends died. It was such a shock. Apparently she had an accident and hurt her back, and as a result of this had a DVT. It's really making me reevaluate my life.