Oxford and Oxon

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Drove by Oxford enroute to visit another of N..'s cousins, who'd invited us for high tea. They live in a beautifully wooded estate in Chinnor. While we walked in the woods, W.. climbed trees, shinied up ropes and ran along with a model airplane before becoming a strawman. The Strawman had to be dethatched before he got back into the car.

N..'s cousins are founders of some web sites focussed on encouraging the world to be green. For example, by encouraging business and conference travel via SecondLife and encouraging and distributing video conferencing technology. They are committed to their cause, but it seems it's an uphill struggle to get others to commit. So Kermit was right when he sang “it's hard to be Green ...”

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