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[7 February 2008]
A gallery of Jo's paintings. Enjoy! Though these little pics are a poor reflection of the originals, of course.
[18 January 2008]
Have completely changed the music pages, added lots more material. Not sure if any of this is of interest to anyone but me. And the people who played in bands with me. Oh well...
[17 January 2008]
Have been quiet for a while: apologies! I'm updating this instead of marking exam papers. Which is a well-known avoidance technique, of course.
Anyway, I should have mentioned this new website some time ago: www.fiddlebop.org.
[9 September 2007]
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[1 May 2007]
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
A rather nice number, don't you think?
[3 August 2006]
Jo, Reub and me had a great time in Tunisia. The very best bit was our trip to the Tunisian Sahara. I've never ridden a camel before, but assumed it would be uncomfortable. It wasn't! I loved it!
[25 June 2006] A new website from me, BGRG 'Self-Organizing Systems in Geomorphology'.
[27 May 2006] Lots of material added to the music page.
[24 May 2006] More wedding photos, this time from Jonathan. Thanks, bro'! Several of these were taken on the evening before the wedding, as mentioned below. Captions to follow!
[21 May 2006] Wedding photos at last! Have added pages from Reuben, Paul (husband of Jo's cousin Ray, or Rachel as she is more formally), John Ingram, and Brian Whalley. Thank you so much, all of you, for these! Have trimmed the images down a bit for these web pages, but if anyone wants the original full-size files, let me know. The link to brother-in-law Jonathan's wedding pics has died, but I will be getting copies of these from him ASAP and adding them to these pages.
In the meantime, enjoy the photos!
Other new pics: Jo at work at the Clive Project, and Jo and me playing music (pic at bottom left of page, together with Simon on percussion) at a Clive Project get-together.
Oh, and my Soil Erosion Site is ranked #1 by Google if you search for 'soil erosion'. Not many people know that...
[26 November 2005]
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| Our cottage in the summer sun. Click for a larger image |
OK, at last an update! Why so long? After our holiday in July (to Gambia: see below), we moved house. Still in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, but now just outside the village, in a rented former farm-worker's cottage. A beautiful view, if a trifle windy in winter: we look across the valley of an un-named tributary of the River Swere, which flows into the River Cherwell near Banbury, which flows into the Thames (Isis) at Oxford... we are therefore just within the Thames catchment; our rain flows east. Great Rollright, a few km to the west, where we were married (see below) is in the Avon catchment. Rain there flows west. So we almost straddle the backbone of England.
Geographical musings aside, we had to do a lot of work to make the cottage inhabitable before we could move in. Which took much of the summer, and a few frayed nerves. Then it was time for me to return to Belfast to do my teaching.
This semester, I have been getting to see Jo and Reub every other weekend, on average; with the occasional slightly longer break. All of which hasn't left much time for updating these web pages. But I'm here in Hookey now, and determined to get up-to-date again...
[7 July 2005]
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| Jo on our wedding day (with her hair curled even more than usual). Click for another image |
Well, what a wedding...! The weather was kind, amazing in fact; and all (actually, only almost all) went very well indeed.
Just as we asked (thank you!), wedding guests have passed on copies of their favourite photos. Some of these are amazingly good! We'll be creating a webpage or two for wedding pics soon. In the meantime, low-resolution versions of the photos taken by brother Jonathan can be found here (link now dead). These include Jo trimming my new sideboards on the evening before the wedding; also Jo, pre-wedding, getting her tresses even-more-curled courtesy of cousin Rachel. And Keith and Sonia (thank you for all you did, and do!), Reub giving the world the eye, helium balloons at the village hall, the procession and the ceremony (thank you so much, Christopher! By the way, should anyone want a copy, the service sheet for our wedding ceremony is here : 600 K PDF). And the beautiful girls in pink, Best Man Tony Guerra declaiming at the reception (thank you Tony!), and me and Jo dancing and kissing, kissing and dancing...
What now? Jo, Reuben and me are off to Gambia tomorrow, for a week's holiday (rainy season notwithstanding). So more next week, post-Africa...
[17 June 2005] Our wedding is tomorrow! Fingers crossed for good weather... Had the rehearsal last night, under our now-very-leafy ash tree. It was fun!
A couple of bits and bobs re. organisation.
1. If you are driving to Great Rollright, we are putting up signs showing parking spaces. Please only park in the 'Reserved parking' area next to the church if you have been asked to do so (this is for people who might have difficulty in walking from the other parking areas)
2. We are not having a professional photographer. What would be great, is if everyone who takes photos could give us their best 2 or 3 pics. We'll then put these on this website, for all to see.
Have a good journey! See you all tomorrow.
[18 May 2005] Only one month to go to our wedding! We've got our wedding rings now. We bought these on eBay, from 'Cumbria Chain Creations'. They were made specially for us, and look great. Here's a pic.
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| Our wedding rings. Click for a larger image |
Looks like we will be having around 180 guests on 18 June. Hope the weather is good!
We've been thinking that, with so many guests, it is going to be hard for us to say much more than "Good to see you!" on the day of the wedding. So, for those that are staying in the vicinity on the night of 18 June, we suggest meeting up on the next day, i.e. the lunchtime of Sunday 19 June, in the Pear Tree pub, Hook Norton. (We can do this because we are not having a honeymoon.)
See you there!
[2 March 2005] As Jo pointed out, there are no pictures of both of us on this website. So I've scanned in some recent photos. Here on the left is one of Jo and me, with Barney (Reub's dog) at bottom left. More to come!
[14 February 2005] Valentine's Day: which is an appropriate time for news about weddings, our wedding in particular. Replies are coming in to the first invitations, which Jo and me have begun to send out (some by post, some by email). It is beginning to look like there will be a lot of people visiting Great Rollright on 18 June 2005...
[10 January 2005] Happy New Year to all! I've added a page about our wedding.
[6 December 2004] Looks like I'm only getting round to updating this every 6 months or so at present, which is not very good... Anyhow, since I last wrote (a random selection, pretty much):
•my beloved Jo has started a new job
•I've been doing lots and lots of teaching (and not enough research, for sure)
•we are about to send out invites for our wedding (been saying that for the last couple of months though)
•Jo's son Reuben has a new home page.
[16 April 2004] Our wedding will be at 2pm on Saturday 18th June 2005, under a tree in the churchyard at St Andrew's church, Great Rollright, Oxfordshire. To be followed by music (I certainly intend to play my fiddle!), dancing, food etc., nearby. More details to follow!
[30 December 2003] OK, for those who don't already know: my darling Jo and me are engaged, we will be getting married in June 2005. Hallelujah! (To use Jo's phrase.)
Many thanks to my Level 2 students at Queen's University Belfast for their card!
[3 November 2003] I'm in love with Joanna Davies!!!! And she loves me...
We met, for the first time in 17 years, on 8th September 2003. Curiously, this was the 22nd anniversary of the day that my mother Joan Mortlock died.
[8 July 2003] Not before time, updating these pages... this time from a hotel room in Budapest, having just attended the final COST623 conference. Flying back home tomorrow, to "... Belfast, devout and profane and hard, Built on reclaimed mud, hammers playing in the shipyard..."
I rather like these lines from "Valediction" by Belfast-born poet Louis MacNeice.
[2 December 2002] I've finally got round to putting something here! But there still are lots of other things pressing for my attention, so for the moment these pages remain very much 'under construction'.
The picture used as a background to most of these pages shows a freeze-frame of vigorous water flow, as I imagine it might look in a rill simulated by my RillGrow models. It's a close-up: that isn't a boulder on the right, it is a pebble! I've modified the image from an original at GraphicFreebies.com.
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