Where the cattle cross the river

Yes, we are in Oxford now (Ox ford, get it?) It's rained pretty much non-stop since we got here, apart from a couple of days at the start, and it's just grey and dreary. We've had a look inside a couple of colleges, spent a lot of time wandering round town, and a lot of time in the many bookshops, and yesterday a friend took us out to Blenheim Palace and to see the White Horse carved into the hillside. It rained then too, and we got pretty wet.

The big news is that now Al has chickenpox. So far it doesn't seem too bad, but new 'boutons' are coming up all the time, and everyone seems to have a horror story about adult chickenpox.

Sigh.