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The book is only available from Amazon and can be purchased on Amazon.com. Click HERE to visit the Amazon page.
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Hello everyone and welcome to a new post. So, I returned yesterday after a week in Oxford. As always I posted various photos and videos to my social media. For those who don’t do social media here are those photos and videos. I have many other photos and videos that have not been published anywhere still to come over the following weeks. So, for the moment catch up on what has been posted on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Enjoy.
My accommodation was Wadham College. Wadham was used in four Morse Universe episodes: Daughters of Cain (Morse), Pilot Episode of Lewis; The Wench is Dead (Morse), Who Killed Harry Field (Morse).
Arriving at my room in Wadham College. Wadham College.
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Up next, When I visit Oxford I always attempt to show you photos and videos of locations that you wouldn’t normally see. How about this one. The laundry room of Wadham College. Don’t tell me I don’t know how to enjoy myself when on holiday.
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I don’t think I have ever had breakfast in a more grand place than the Wadham College Hall.
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Wadham College. walking from back Quad to the Front Quad.
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I’m with James Hathaway and his hatred of the misused possessive apostrophe. This is a sign on a new shop opening soon on Broad Street.
This started an excellent discussion on Facebook. here is that discussion.
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The Covered Market, Oxford. No sign of Morse chasing Charlie Bennett (Absolute Conviction) or Hathaway being stabbed with a syringe (Down Among the Fearful).
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A pint in the The White Horse.
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A pint in the Lamb and Flag.
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A pint in the Morse Bar.
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My last full day at Wadham College. The torrential rain has given way to sunshine. All is good in Oxford.
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A rehearsal in Wadham College Chapel last night, (Wednesday 20th sept’).
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Martyr’s memorial. Probably best known in the Morse Universe for the episode, The Wolvercote Tongue. Cedric Downes (Kenneth Cranham) trying to recall his historical facts while taking an American group on tour.
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John Everett Millais, The Woodman’s Daughter. A clue in a Morse episode. But which one? 😉😊
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No pint, instead a coffee and cake, (chocolate and raspberry). I’m in the cafe that was used in the Lewis episode, The Indelible Stain (the one with David Soul). It’s where Hathaway and Lewis meet ‘the old girls.’ It has new owners and as you can see it has changed dramatically.
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Bye Oxford.
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One last photo before I leave Oxford. This is Bursary Quad in Wadham College. The black door that can be glimpsed through the tree branches is an entrance to the rear of Holywell Music Room.
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This photo shows the pub The Head of the River and Folly Bridge. A few Lewis episodes filmed in particular when Innocent is asking Lewis to return as a police advisor in series 9, episode 1.
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So, there we go. You have now caught up with everything I placed on social media. Watch out for many new posts in the forthcoming weeks.
Before I continue, in case you didn’t know, I have written a book on the Endeavour series. It has a colour (color) version, a B&W version and lastly a kindle version.
The book is only available from Amazon and can be purchased on Amazon.com. Click HERE to visit the Amazon page.
I hope this post finds you all well, mentally as well as physically.
Before the post begins please take time to read the following.
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Thank you.
A wonderful set of pictures Chris. The College looked great, was your room comfy? Take care, I will tune in Sunday coming.
Very comfy, thank you.
Kit – not to be too nosy, but was the room rate expensive ?
Not prohibitively expensive.
good to know, see you Sunday for Kavanagh.
With reference to the apostrophe debate, it is easy to construct a sentence in which a possessive is not followed by the thing possessed. I wrote this sentence in an email this morning:
“I’m pretty sure I was still using film in 2002, so any images on it [a back-up disk] must be Andrew’s.” It would have seemed very odd to have written, “I’m pretty sure I was still using film in 2002, so any images on it must be Andrew’s images.”
I am not a little surprised that nobody has jumped in to correct Tom Bowers’ post: “However for a plural noun it’s use isn’t recommended”. I didn’t need my spellchecker to know that there should be a comma after “However”, and that the possessive adjective of “it” is “its”. The latter must be a typo; Tom must know the difference between “it’s” and “its”.
I would disagree with another of Tom’s statements: “Only if the proper name ended with an S would you use the apostrophe at the end such as if the name were Thomas'” (My spellchecker points out that the sentence needs a full stop at the end, and a comma after “end”.) It is not only with proper names that the apostrophe may stand at the end of the word. There could be two (or more) businesses that own a building. It is the businesses’ building. With names, it depends on the number of syllables in the name (imo). I would generally use “‘s” with monosyllabic and disyllabic names, because I would pronounce the name with “iz” at the end. Thus, James’s book, or this book is James’s. (Pronounced “jaymz-iz”) This is Thomas’s coat, or this coat is Thomas’s. (Pronounced “tomas-iz.) But with names of more than two syllables ending in s (or z), I would use the apostrophe at the end of the name. Thus, Archimedes’ Principle, Socrates’ plays, Achilles’ heel, because I don’t say “arkimedeez-iz principle” or “sokrateez-iz plays” etc. If you say “arkimedeez-iz principle”, feel free to write Archimedes’s Principle. You will have observed that I wrote “Tom Bowers’ post”. This is because I would not say “tom bowerz-iz post”. The exception proves the rule, as they say.
Hi Bert. Your sentence, “I’m pretty sure I was still using film in 2002, so any images on it [a back-up disk] must be Andrew’s.” is correct because you have mentioned the images that belonged to Andrew previously in the sentence. That gives the possessive apostrophe context. The sign I photographed that simply said, ‘Theo’s’ has no context.
Two typos I didn’t spot. Nobody’s prefect. 🙂