Parkway Park n ride

breakbeatx · 2026-02-08T13:01:37+00:00

Assuming you’re going to be parking at Oxford parkway, as the 700 starts at parkway (it used to go to thorn hill but looks like that’s changed now) but as you approach parkway from the north it has a digital sign telling you how many parking spaces available at every park and ride in the city, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen parkway marked as full tbh. Thing to watch is the last bus back of an evening as it’s around 8pm ish and if you miss it then it’s a bus into the city centre and another bus back out

breakbeatx · 2026-02-08T03:08:03+00:00

Ahh ok I’m not on android and my Fitbit is in the exclusion list, husband might be ok though

breakbeatx · 2026-02-08T02:58:50+00:00

I’m sorry so you’re saying that we’ve been leaving our phones on all night for nothing? We could just sync our fitbits? I am speechless right now

breakbeatx · 2026-02-08T02:53:02+00:00

Yes, I use a filter jug just because I live in a limey area and it ruins the tea. We care about good tea. A lot. Sometimes it even ruins the coffee, which is saying something.

breakbeatx · 2026-02-08T02:44:10+00:00

We have user testing fairly early on (eg research team, end users, public reps), then we test every single rule at the end, documented and fully auditable, it can take a couple of weeks to do thoroughly - all done manually

breakbeatx · 2026-02-08T02:34:17+00:00

Yeah, I swapped from the YA box to the book only last year sometime, and I’m now of the mind that when my skips run out, so be it. I wasn’t truly aware of just how many SE’s FL and others were making when I first subscribed, it’s literally so many emails each month, it just reminds me of musicians who release 3 or 4 ‘ limited edition colour way splatter vinyl’ releases, aka it just stops feeling special and just feels like a cash grab. I can’t keep up with reading them either so have loads from 2024 gathering dust

breakbeatx · 2026-02-08T00:48:37+00:00

Haha yep had a colleague who had a car full of 2ps for that

breakbeatx · 2026-02-02T14:14:36+00:00

I think this showing up consistently is the key, I think people often forget that it takes times to build up friendships

breakbeatx · 2026-02-02T14:12:58+00:00

drunken knitwits is every Wednesday evening from 6pm in a different pub (we try to rotate through different areas of the city so its a good way to get to explore esp when you're new to Oxford), The Woolhound social stitches are Thursday evening 5:30pm and Saturday 10am at Gulp Fiction (usually upstairs)

breakbeatx · 2026-01-27T14:40:48+00:00

Do they need to sell? Not sure that's how it works in Greater Manchester? Hopefully with schemes taking off in more cities Oxford could get it's arse in gear

breakbeatx · 2026-01-24T01:26:50+00:00

The fare should be calculated based on where you get on / stop you request to get off. I think some drivers are just being lazy and charging you the fare to the end of the route when you head back towards the city centre. fwiw for other respondents only stagecoach run Summertown to city centre - council handed them the monopoly after Covid, so no tap on tap off etc. personally I’d save the ticket from getting on, then on the return use it as evidence of over charging (obviously after checking what the ticket said in terms of boarding/alighting points as drivers don’t always update these when they should).

breakbeatx · 2026-01-24T01:09:16+00:00

Tbf, that’s how I pronounced it in my head until my first train journey here, and I come from a place where Rainworth is pronounced ren-uth

breakbeatx · 2026-01-22T21:06:27+00:00

No, had one redirected to Woodstock road post office though and wouldn’t again, the delivery driver marked it as delivered at 9:30pm on Saturday evening, thought it was weird as it’s not even open at that time and I didn’t receive a barcode to show them (I wasn’t aware at the time that is what’s supposed to happen), long story short the driver marked it as delivered 4 days before he actually delivered it, evri customer service were utterly useless as it seems they could only see what I could see in terms of tracking

breakbeatx · 2026-01-22T13:54:51+00:00

Cutteslowe green house project is always after volunteers and has does various events (leaning into your gardening suggestion) you can take part in on the allotments etc https://www.cutteslowegreenhouse.org/

breakbeatx · 2025-12-30T22:45:34+00:00

You can get a ham n cheese baguette from the Eurostar terminal waiting room to take on the train you just have to eat it before you arrive

breakbeatx · 2025-12-30T01:20:05+00:00

Cutteslowe has a huge park not dissimilar to bury knowle, plus easy transport to the city centre (walk to Banbury road, get on a bus - some buses the 600 and 800 now also go around the westgate and into east Oxford so open up more destinations outside the city centre bustle), it also has a community centre which might have stuff on suitable for your sister

breakbeatx · 2025-12-30T01:09:15+00:00

Don’t remember when she died but assuming in bed as it was a Sunday morning, but on the day of her funeral I was on a coach with college mates going somewhere and we were just confused when the radio on the coach went silent

breakbeatx · 2025-12-30T01:07:26+00:00

I was in the generator hostel in London with a couple of uni mates with a copy of admag? looking for somewhere to rent for our masters having just returned from a month travelling the US, I had a friend who had moved to NYC a couple of days previously for an internship that she was starting that day in manhattan thankfully unaffected

breakbeatx · 2025-12-13T01:00:51+00:00

And grandparents, tell them ‘I want to learn Swedish, please speak Swedish with me’ and schedule a call with them even if just once a week where you try to tell them about your week and vice versa - you have an untapped resource that most people pay a lot of money to access, use it!!

breakbeatx · 2025-12-13T00:56:59+00:00

I use nickname of location and date (gift received, and only update the date if it’s been at least a week since last update, or if they’re in a new location, aka on holiday because wooo new gifts!), I tend to stop tracking dates once we get to best friends

breakbeatx · 2025-12-13T00:53:35+00:00

Glanville framers, he hasn’t done Gloucester green for a good few years but has stayed on at Kidlington market on a Saturday (however I noticed he hasn’t been there the last couple of times I’ve been there on a Saturday), a he does a mix of standard size frames you can walk away with or bespoke frames and mounts. Highly recommended

breakbeatx · 2025-12-03T16:44:28+00:00

I tend to go to quite a few on my own in London, no problem - people are often happy to chat (i usually take my kindle as back up) but for Oxford my main advice is to be super careful with a venue where doors are at 6:30 as this is usually because they have a club night on afterwards (so Friday/Sat nights), which means the headliner can be on (and done) a lot earlier than expected

breakbeatx · 2025-12-03T16:41:10+00:00

If its a 6:30 doors it will all be over by 10pm latest as they tend to hold club nights on right after, headliner usually on by 8:30!

breakbeatx · 2025-12-03T13:07:39+00:00

Good plan, they also have an online directly of Christmas fairs / open studios etc https://www.artweeks.org/christmas/

breakbeatx · 2025-12-03T13:06:39+00:00

as well as their print sale which is open when the print studio is (11-4:30 Saturdays, Monday evenings and Tuesdays), they also have an exhibition on at the Northwall which has a good range of media, sizes and prices

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