Have you got 2 minutes for the coolest application of Maths you’ll see all year? 🤩 Our fantastic Maths Professor, John Chapman Jon Chapman has created this quirky & mathematically inspired photo of College in the style of Escher. In the video below, he explains how! 🤯 ...🧵

“Don’t you sometimes feel green with envy the way she can cram a whole poem-idea into a sentence?” Elizabeth Bishop letter to Lowell. Talking about Flannery O’Connor

Alerting me to a cat vomit, our eight-year-old reports it has a ‘deafening smell’.

I love my Cotinus so much. Just look at it for goodness sake.

Is this as a result of the US population becoming more right wing, or as a result of the Democrats becoming more left wing? #USA2024

Why do we have food banks at all? This is gross

Who has executed the best flounce to the hermetically sealed echo-chamber of Bluesky?

Happy birthday to William Blake and to me.

Riu Riu Chiu youtube.com/watch?v=WRZWiW…

The most disappointing thing about my game of chess is my propensity to throw a match to stalemate from a strong winning position. Argh. #chess.com

Start in the middle is great advice.

Breakfasted on porridge made with water. Served with sea salt and the tiniest drizzle of milk. Just like my Dad made for me as a kid.

Made the cloveyist bread sauce.

HNY everyone. This morning I bought some new Brooks Cascadia trail running shoes. I miss running and need it. I’ve also decided I want to walk the Camino Frances, from St Jean to Santiago.

A new post on the Guidebook narrator in Finnegans Wake peterchrisp.blogspot.com/2025/01/guideb…

"Words belong to each other." On Virginia Woolf's birthday, hear the only surviving recording of her (rather surprising) voice, in a love letter to language she broadcast on the BBC themarginalian.org/2013/04/29/cra…

I wish that insufferable snob Alan Clark could see Michael Heseltine’s arboretum at Thenford. Now that’s an inheritance!

NEW: Faculty of English's Dr Leah Veronese has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This is only the second known manuscript copy of the sonnet ever discovered. More info ⬇️

I love the way Michael Hofmann describes Wallace Stevens as “the Matisse among poets” and “imitating a whole orchestra, not despising the triangle.”

Connie Shaw Women to men: 'No'. Men: "You're persecuting me!"