Two retired parents around the house, a sister working from the room next door on an industrial sewing machine that shakes the floor, plus a very needy cat wandering around does not a productive work environment make. Furthermore, tearooms and coffeeshops aren’t really conducive to day-long bouts of study and feel rather more quaint than academic. Gah! But I’ve got numbers to crunch, papers to read and manuscripts to write….
So I decided to take the bull by the horns and aim for the top- what better a place to get on with my work is there than one of the most distinguished university libraries in the whole wide world! Yes, I’ve managed to wangle myself access to the Bodleian at Oxford.
Now this should do the trick. 
Born to wear pretty dresses and Barbour jackets and skip through muddy English fields in a pair of Hunter wellies, Nin is now a 30-something British Ex-Pat living in the urban wilds of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. She likes cake and chocolate and is on a quest to find the perfect Stateside cream tea.
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Could you possibly be any cooler?
Wowee. What a fabulous building!
(and I’ve tagged you to list your seven favourite spring songs, but feel free to ignore it if you don’t fancy it)
Come visit my museum and let Natasha show you around today. I have a few more photos that I may post this week-end.
P.S. I am getting a Takara Jenny Kirsara doll in the mail soon. Have you heard of them? This one is a beauty with long black hair and a kimono.
That building is the Radcliffe Camera and there’s a reading room in there too, it’s part of the library. I’m going to check it out next time I go. I think it was designed by Sir Christopher Wren?? I’ll find out all the details next time I post, but it’s ALWAYS been one of my favourite buildings in the city, and it’s been an ambition of mine to go inside, EEKS!
TAKARA JENNY DOLLS?! Oooh I love those. I don’t own one myself, but I’ve been getting sweaty palms looking at them on flickr. They wear the same size clothes as Blythes, don’t they?
I haven’t actually seen her in person yet but I think so. You know that little yellow dress I had on Natasha is a Skipper dress from the 60’s. It was in perfect condition and fit perfectly too. I am going to get some more Skipper dresses for her. The shoes were borrowed from another one of my Blythe’s.