Sunday, April 18, 2010

ash


The New York Post is never one to soft-peddle news, but this is emphatic, to say the least. At a St Anne's brunch (these things are held bi-annually in NYC, and coincide with a more general Oxford University get together) it was not a little amusing to hear that there are currently 30 heads of Oxford colleges stuck in New York, and wondering whether they can possibly charter a liner home (I think not: seemingly all the berths on cruise ships have already been snapped up). As Tim Gardam, St Anne's principal put it, it's like a disaster movie ("Ash," we thought) with the script by David Lodge.

Meanwhile, it was an exceptionally beautiful day in New York.


2 comments:

  1. And here I was thinking Amanda Vickery merely being hyperbolic when she said she thought the UK govt should charter a liner for her to return home from NYC with her family and john styles!! They have been told by Virgin that they can fly in 10 days time!! xx

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  2. Judging by the UK press, the Royal Navy will be sending a warship any time now...

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