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The Henna Wars

Nishat and Flávia are rivals at school, but Nishat can't help the secret crush burning in her heart - even though her parents disapprove of the fact she likes girls.




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2021-12-18

A scene of the Long Alley Almshouse viewed from the garden in the 20th century. ❄️❄️

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2021-12-07

Some original painting sales from Oxford art fair. A very busy successful weekend. I’ll be adding my remaining mini paintings to my Etsy shop over the next few days. 😁

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2021-12-07

'But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful'
(W.B. Yeats, 'The Wild Swans at Coole)

Swans by the canal, glowing in the evening light.

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2021-12-06

On this day in 1962 Bob Dylan recorded 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' and versions of 'Hero Blues', 'Whatcha Gonna Do', 'Oxford Town', and 'I Shall Be Free', at Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios in New York City.

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2021-12-06

'Seriously committed to light heartedness' 👻👻👻
Read our review of A Christmas Carole here:
https://t.co/2wJW9pB5cw

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2021-12-03

I will be holding a special Xero auction for charity at 3pm EST - 100% of the sale will be donated to the victims & families of the Oxford High School shooting. 💙💛

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2021-12-03

Literary Advent Fact according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest known use of the phrase ‘Christmas pudding’ is in Anthony Trollope’s 1858 Barsetshire novel Doctor Thorne.

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2021-12-02

Janet Boulton, 'Sheds, Cow Mead Allotments, Oxford', 2012.

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2021-12-02

Melancholy: A New Anatomy, curated by Oxford experts in mental health research and the humanities, it explores 'cures' for melancholy such as sleep, greenspaces, music and writing. Until 20 March 2022, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. https://t.co/Mp6CVa9iVp

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2021-12-01

You can't be pro-life and consider guns more important than human life.
You’re just a hypocrite.


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2021-12-01

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Did you know a Dragon shot down the first enemy airship over Britain during WW1?

Leefe Robinson is just one former Dragon School pupil whose story you'll hear in streaming 7pm, 7 December

WATCH HERE: https://t.co/4QsFinDkjE

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2021-11-26

A huge congratulations is in order for Gallery artist Rob Pointon! Rob has won The Mall Galleries ROI Artist Magazine Award for his painting 'Piccadilly Flow'.

This painting 'Oxford Road' will be on show at the Gallery from the 4th of December for our Winter show 10+1.

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2021-11-24

Epitaph to the original 'Dandy Highwayman' heart-throb Claude Du Vall, Hung at Tyburn age 27, in 1670, celebrated in plays & art, his ebullient ghost is said to haunt his old Oxfordshire haunts, including the Holt Hotel.

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2021-11-22

First & last panels from the C15th Nottingham alabaster altarpiece in St Peter’s church, Drayton

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2021-11-20

The BBC deliberately targeted Brazil, the country with the highest number of murders of trans people, with hate-propaganda designed to make trans people a target.

London will be held outside Broadcasting House, Portland Place, on Sat 20th Nov at 6pm. (Oxford Circus tube).

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2021-11-18

Quite a while ago I made a short series of Oxfordinary comics about adopting Heath. I had completely forgot that I made an alternate ending to one of the comics.
The original -> The alternate ending

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2021-11-16