Some long-overdue photos, part the first

So it seems that it has been a little while since my last post... but I do have several good excuses, in that I have been (a) travelling for work, (b) travelling for holidaying, and (c) travelling home and trying to catch up with the more-than-100 overdue tasks which were waiting in my to-do box as a result of my holidaying. (It's now down to about 30, a week after getting home...). This post will be thick on the pictures and relatively thin on the commentary, because most of the scenery speaks for itself - these are the photos from the first bit of my trip, which was spent in Oxford, Abingdon and surrounding areas, running (very successful) experiments at the ISIS neutron source, but did include the chance to sneak out for a couple of afternoons to take some photos in what I am assured is just about the most "English" bit of England. The river in some of the photos is the Thames, which is much nicer at that point of its existence than a bit further downstream in London, where it looks much murkier. Most of the buildings are related in some way or another to Oxford University, which has a ridiculously picturesque aspect to it that makes it quite difficult to take a bad photo... So, here goes: