Sorry for the stupid question: is it possible to add a link to my nostr profile on a normal website, like you do to Instagram or Facebook profiles? If so, how? #plebchain

The Eagle and Child is an historical pub on St. Giles' Street. I read it was here since 1650. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S.Lewis and the other members of the writers group "The Inklings" met in this pub every Thursday evening for years. The pub is closed since 2020, another victim of Covid restrictions... Couple of doors down the road, Ramen Kulture serves the best ramen in Oxford. I love ramen.

Great episode!

Amethyst is much better than last time I tried it!

St. Mary's passage connects Hight Street to the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, and I heard a story about this little pathway. The famous writer C.S.Lewis once exited via the side door of the church, facing St. Mary's passage, on a snowy day. Directly in front of the church exit, there is a wooden door adorned with the relief of a lion and flanked by two fauns. Its view somehow conjured in the young author's mind the picture of "a faun with a parcel in a snowy wood". That image was the seed that, many years later, blossomed in his famous Narnia book series. Now, I am not really certain this is completely true, but I was told that on Internet one could write whatever he wants without being saddled by things like accuracy or truthfulness, so that's it.

I very frequently park the bike here when I go to the city center. I like the corner tower of this building, decorated with reliefs showing tigers, elephants and moustached barechest men. Makes sense, since it used to be the Indian Institute of Oxford. You know, British Empire and such...While I was drawing, it started to rain and of course a drop of rain fell exactly on the only spot with fresh ink. Try to spot the stain.

Every day, on my way to the gym or grocery store, I walk past this charming cottage with a thatched roof. It looks completely different from the surrounding buildings, which consist of two big malls and an ugly, multilevel parking lot. It's not hard to imagine a time when this cottage was situated in a more rural and sparsely populated area. Or perhaps it was built in the 80s by a weirdo.

I like very much the dome on top of the circular structure supported by columns, so prominent on top of the entrance, so I was very surprised when I asked chatGPT to write a brief description of the Queen's College entrance and it adamantly said that there was no dome on top of it, nor columns, nor statue. It insisted that "the entrance features a vaulted archway with a series of spires and sculptures rising above the roofline". Only after I told it that I saw and drew the dome myself that very day, that it apologized and admitted that "it appears that there is indeed a dome structure on top of the entrance of Queen's College on High Street, Oxford"...

Because I may faint.

GM, sir

I am reposting here an old drawing of mine, about this ominous building that towers over Basel main train station. This is the BIS tower, one of the reasons the current financial system is so profoundly wrong. To feel better, I embedded in this drawing a symbol of hope. Let me know if you find it.