Last week kept us busy with a couple of black tie dinners.
The first one was a bit of a debut for Brian as the new physics Tutor at Keble college. It was an annual formal dinner put on by the undergraduate physics students at Keble. They invite their tutors and the tutors' partners to join them for a three-course dinner in the college dining hall. If you've been to visit us in Oxford and have seen the Harry Potter-like college dining hall at Christ Church College, Keble's is just as impressive. It's not quite as old or ornate (well we are still talking 1860s), but the Keble dining hall was purposefully built to be 6 inches longer than Christ Church's. Obviously so Keble could claim to have the longest dining hall of all of the Oxford colleges!
About 50 of sat on one very long dining table, 25 on each side. Very Oxford. I sat next to Brian and one of the graduate students and also across from a couple of the undergraduates. Mind you, this is an all physics crowd (my life as I'm getting used to), but they were extremely friendly and welcoming - and so young! The food was very good, I had breast of duck with cabbage and roast potatoes (so British) and Brian had a veggie pasta. Brian was welcomed after we ate and gave a few words to everyone saying how he looks forward to getting to know them all and explore the what, why and how of the world.
I wasn't allowed (by Dr Smith) to take any photos of the evening, as he didn't want us to look like tourists at his new job! Which I understand (I guess). . . I'm sure there will be more college photos of us dressed up over the years to come!
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