Saturday 24 March 2018

Photo diary: week 12 (project 365)

Yet another week has whizzed past. On Sunday we still had plenty of snow for us to worry if the schools would be open the next day, and whether Sasha's respite stay was going to happen. He has to travel for an hour by car to the respite centre, and if the roads were unpassable, he would have had to stay at home, and he was very eager to go. Every time I mention the place where he stays he gestures that he wants to go.
I've been postponing a post on Oreos for BritMums, but the deadline was looming the next day. We love Oreos, we truly do, and buy them regularly, but I just couldn't feign much enthusiasm to do a cookie quest around the house. Eddie wasn't keen either.


On Monday the snow was still on the ground, but roads were clear enough and schools were open in town. Thankfully, Sasha was able to travel to his favourite respite home to stay overnight, and my husband and I took Eddie out to Pizza Express. This was his first visit there.
He loved the dough balls with garlic butter and the ice cream with chocolate sauce and fresh strawberries the best, but deemed their pizza not as good as Domino's (a declaration which I completely disagree with).

This was my pizza, with spinach and egg. The crust was just as I like it, thin and crispy.


One of the houses in our street is a home to at least a dozen of white doves. They have several nests in the creeper branches over the house. The house looks so eerie, and we call it the ghost house.
It would make a good setting for an episode of Goosebumps.


The new Moon on Wednesday: I just liked the juxtaposition of the old house's chimney with the modern aerial and the eternal presence of the Moon.



On Thursday we had to get up very early, as Eddie's class travelled to Bath to visit the Roman Baths.
They study ancient Rome this term, and this was part of the programme. The tour itself was splendid, and I am going to do a separate post about it.
The trip by coach was a big trial. It was about 2 hours each way, and so many kids were sick. The poor heroic teachers were running around with sick bags and cleaning up.

Eddie loved dressing up in Roman toga.


I am drawn to this house with a red post/letter box in Woodgreen square. I think I have a red post box envy. I wish we had one in our house.

red post box

Today we walked through the fields, past the old woolen blanket factory buildings with a huge chimney. The road is new and shiny as it has just been redone this week.

wool blankets of Witney

19 comments:

  1. I never knew that's what the building was in your town. Now I know. That's a long distance to travel for a school trip! I always have the same pizza (but minus the olivs)

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    1. Thank you, Emma! You should come over to Witney, and we'll give you a tour of its significant landmarks. :) Yes, over four hours on the coach in one day was a big trial.

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  2. I just can't get my head around egg on a pizza...lol It looks very tasty though.
    The house on your street does look ever so spooky...Eek!

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    1. Thank you, Kim, I believe it's a classic recipe from Florence, so not that weird, and it's definitely tasty. :)

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  3. I'm with you on Pizza Express being better. The school coach trip sounds quite horrific.

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    1. Thank you, Erica! I think I wouldn't want to repeat the journey like that any time soon, it was tough.

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  4. I love a good florentine Pizza, I think I’ve had one with asparagus and egg before. That ghost house really does look very spooky!

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    1. Asparagus on pizza is lovely too. The ghost house attracts me a lot, I'd love to have a tour inside.

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  5. no egg on a pizza for me but i do like thin pizza crusts. Glad Sasha managed to get to his respite, hope he had a nice time. 4 hours round trip seems a bit excessive for a school trip #365

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    1. Thank you, Suzanne! Thin crusts on pizza all the way for me. :)

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  6. egg on pizza???? never heard of that before.
    Glad Sasha got away for the night.
    We have a lot of post boxes built into walls in our area as well. Most of them date back to King George's time

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    1. Thank you, Elaine! I love old style post boxes, they are beautiful.

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  7. I know that road with the chimney well, always imagine it billowing smoke. I'm quite envious of the Bath trip bit maybe not the sick. We all enjoy Pizza Express here #365

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    1. Thank you, Mary! I think I'll remember that trip for a long time, for all sorts of reasons. :)

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  8. Glad Eddie enjoyed his first trip to Pizza Express - even if it wasn't as good as Domino's! Love the photo of him in his toga. The school trip sounds horrendous. I have a phobia of vomiting, so would have really struggled. I've helped on a couple of school trips and nobody has been sick, but fear that it may happen made it difficult for me.

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    1. Thank you, Sarah! I was so sorry for the teachers who had to clean up the kids and deal with their tears.

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  9. Some gorgeous photographs! I love the doves image and the postbox one! x

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    1. Thank you, Siobhan! The doves have taken over that house, there are at least a dozen of them living there.

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  10. Some very atmospheric scenic shots and that pizza looks tasty! I like Pizza Express but sometimes the crust is a bit hard (gluten free version) #project365

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