Royal Agricultural University on the day of arrival
Royal Agricultural University on the day of arrival
Royal Agricultural University
Full moon over the RAU playing fields
After dinner discussion
Off to Cirencester amphitheatre
Brigitte leads the way through the underpass
Roman Cirencester or Corinium
Benedek and Borbala after surviving Wales
Daniel
Andy and Chris
The amphiteatre
Daniel and Jeremiah
Grady in full flight
Brigitte and Trevor
David
At Sundey Hill Farm
Chris is looking forward to tea
Krisztian, Benjamin and Benedek with David in the foreground
Tea at Sundey Hill Farm
Abbi
A farm walk with Sundey Hill farmhouse in the background
Brigitte and Jeremiah - those famous blue brollies
The meadow
Crossing the meadow
The view from the top of the meadow
Sophie talks about her meadow and the trees
Andre, Jeremy and Chris listen up
In the meadow
Sophie and Ava admire the puppy hounds
The altar in Garsdon church
Garsdon church
The Washington memorial
Benedek plays the organ
Sir Roger's headstone
Garsdon church
Pepijn and Brigitte pay their respects
I am the true vine
A serious house on serious earth it is
Benjamin and Trevor at Bow in the Cloud vineyard
Grady and Pepijn
Arriving at the vineyard
Andy
The vineyard
The vineyard talk
Grapes have just set
Jeremiah is tall enough to see over the vines
Andre, Sophie and Ian, the Garsdon churchwarden
Hanging on
Vineyard tour
Lunch at the vineyard
Some of the fabulous cheese
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Garsdon Mill
Royal Agricultural University
Royal Agricultural University
Pepijn offers Ava a blackberry in Malmesbury
Malmesbury
Malmesbury
Malmesbury abbey
Malmesbury abbey
Abbey House Manor
Grace and Borbala
Pointing out the details of the Norman porch
The Abbey porch
The inner porch
The inner porch
The unusual watching loft above the abbey nave
Malmesbury Abbey Norman and early Gothic
The abbey altar
Andy uses the mirror to appreciate the roof
A polychronme roof boss
Illuminated manuscript in the abbey
A Malmesbury monk
Borbala in Sundey Hill fam orchard
David
Sundey Hill farm
In the orchard
Andy
Daniel
Joe and Tom in the orchard
Benjamin
Pepijn and Trevor
Renata reads about the aesthetics of music
The concert at Sundey Hill Farm
Angela Good
Stephen Marquiss
Angela
Angela
Stephen explains his liking for Madeleine Dring
Thank you
Thank you, both
Sophie thanks Abbi
Sir Roger portrait in the library, in the library
Sir Roger
Tom raises a glass to Sophie, Angela and Stephen
Tom raises a glass to Sophie
BBQ - venison burgers!
BBQ
Boules at dusk
Boules at dusk
The library at Sherborne House
Grady
Pepijn, Sarah, Andy and Jeremy
Trevor and David
Justine Kolata, Brigitte and Andre
Grace and Pepijn
Anthony O'Hear and Ava
Lunch at Sherborne House
Sherborne House
Pepijn by the pond
The orangery
Andy and Zak discuss: "Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?"
Sherborne House
Sherborne House garden
Sherborne House garden
Sherborne House
Sherborne House
Sherborne House
Grace and Renata
Lavender and honey at Sherborne House
Justine - beauty will save the world
Anthony's and Zak's HO gauge collection
Sherborne House front with three classical orders
Sherborne House and church
Burford church
Burford church
The Burford church tour
Burford church looking into the crossing
Burford church looking below the crossing
Burford church looking east
South chapel
Mother and child sculpture
Crucifixion faciing the nave with the earlier roof lines
Weeping for Christopher Kempster, lead mason at the building of St Paul's cathedral
G E Street chapel
St Dorothy, patron saint of orchards and small gardens
The altar of Burford church
Tomb of Sir Lawrence Tanfield
Burford almshouses date from 1457
In the Ashmolean - portrait of Elias Ashmole
Persian plate with white ground
Biaggio di Antonio Tucci - The flight of the Vestal virgins
Master of the Ashmolean Predella - the Birth of the Virgin Mary
The Wilton diptych - Alec's special love
The tour of the Ashmolean
Camille Pisarro - the view from my window. In pointilliste style
Sir Edward Burne-Jones - the Prioress's Tale Wardrobe
Frederick Sandys - Gentle Spring
Worcester College
Worcester College
Serenhedd describes the history and architecture of Worcester College
The amazing borders in Worcester College
Passageway between the garden and the quad
Worcester College
A spectacular horse chestnut
A spectacular horse chestnut
Sultan Nazrin Shah centre in Worcester College
Modern archetecture at its best, so Alec thinks
Sultan Nazrin Shah centre in Worcester College - elegance and humanity
A spectacular horse chestnut
Worcester College garden
Worcester College
Worcester College
The amazing borders in Worcester College
The amazing borders in Worcester College
Andy and Sarah
The church at Coates that Jeremiah, Ava, Trevor and Alec walked to
The church at Coates - the walk was an end not a means
Jeremiah walking back from Coates just before he succumbed to despair
Gala dinner
Gala dinner
Gala dinner
Michael Gove - guest speaker at the gala dinner
Scrutopia 2024; L to R: Alec, Mikolaj, Grady, Sarah, Sophie, Joe, Daniel, Samuel, Jeremiah, Andy, Ralph, Brigitte, Michael Gove, Pepijn, Tom, Andre, Ava, Peter, Anthony, Benedek, Renata, Benjamin, Grace, Lucy, Borbala, Chris, Trevor, Stephen, Jeremy, David
