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You can bank on the Boathouse
10:38am Thursday 9th October 2008
Katherine MacAlister discovers that an Oxford favourite is still setting the standards for fine dining and originality
Jamioe does the business
2:41pm Friday 11th July 2008
Katherine MacAlister plucks up courage to say that Jamies Italian is really rather good . . .
The map man
2:28pm Friday 11th July 2008
Linora Lawrence meets Nick Millea, head of the Bodleian Map Library
Outstanding in their field
11:08am Friday 30th May 2008
Painter Jan Harvey and scrap metal sculptor Sophie Thompson, who have previously exhibited on their own forArtweeks, are joining forces this year to produce a show on a theme dear to both their hearts - rare breed animals.
Forza Alesi!
11:00am Friday 30th May 2008
J ean Alesi had a spectacular Formula One career that lasted for more than 12 years. At the beginning he won the French Formula Three title, then graduated to Formula 3000 with the French ORECA team in 1988.
Comics, Coca-Cola and childhood memories
10:57am Friday 30th May 2008
H amish Vigne Christie Paul - better known to his many fans as Korky was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951, one of seven children.
Martyrs memorial
10:53am Friday 30th May 2008
I wonder how many of the commuters driving through the village of South Newington on the busy main road between Banbury and Chipping Norton know that they are within a stone's throw of probably the finest wall paintings of any church in Oxfordshire?
Know your onions!
10:49am Friday 30th May 2008
I admit, I had to refer to Wikipedia to confirm what an Allium was. I thought it was a kind of lily (I was getting confused with Arum) - in fact Allium is the onion genus and there are no less than 1,250 species covering everything from onions, shallots and leeks to garlic and chives.
Saved by the bistro
10:39am Friday 30th May 2008
All dressed up but nothing to eat? Katherine MacAlister has her night out at the Feathers rescued by a menu . . .
Raymond would be proud
5:28pm Friday 28th March 2008
Katherine MacAlister visits The Thatch, home to TV-show winners couple, Jane and Jeremy Hooper
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The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Early taste of Christmas wine
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
Dylan Moran: New Theatre, Oxford
‘I was the first person to discover that if you infected a person with Marmite, he would stand up and bark at the moon.” “Everybody under the age of 35 has the intelligence of raspberry jam.” “Children can hear vegetables hiding.”
Sleeping Beauty, Chipping Norton Theatre
There’s nothing King Couer-de-Loup likes more than a good battle: “We’ll march on King Florizel’s wet and wicked army,” he proclaims. His Queen is not so sure, however. She would rather her husband stayed around: there’s the christening of their daughter Princess Aurora to arrange for a start. And he certainly can’t go out and fight looking like that: “Your chain mail’s got a ladder in it,” she wails.
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