[Mithalwen]

Were you in one of the old colleges? Years ago I stayed at "Lincoln" for a sixthform conference and was given a set of rooms on the ground floor since the study/sitting room was rather bare and exposed I retreated to the tiny bedroom and the connecting door practically fell off ..... it had been there for hundreds of years and I managed to almost break it in ten minutes...aiieeeee But Oxford is lovely and well worth a visit for Tolkienites and ... though it has to be said that the Bird and Baby has been systematically stripped of character like so many of the pubs in Oxford.... the Lamb and Flag across the road was much more the kind of thing you would imagine but that was under threat when I was there in '96 and I haven't dared go back and see ..... But still Oxford is sublime, the loveliest city in England of those I have been too.....