I was struck by this at first, but I wanted to share: there are so many birds of different types here. It is so great. There are many ducks, which is great. We see swans somewhat regularly, and there are these kind of geese (i think) which are much more beautiful than your average Canadian Goose. Perhaps they're called English Geese? We see magpies sometimes, and of course a ridiculous amount of pigeons. We take this footpath beside the river to get into town, and part of it goes under these train tracks. There is always an obnoxious amount of pigeons underneath there coo-ing, and it kind of echoes. It's quite spooky. But I enjoy the fowl in general.

Well, I'm quite sorry to say that this news has been on facebook, but I will reiterate it here for those of you lucky souls who do not have facebook:

Ian and I are engaged! Enjoy this photo which Kaia put together of photos I took. We had a picnic out at Godstow Abbey (mentioned before) and then he proposed, right in the middle of these beautiful monastic ruins and trees and wildflowers around!