Rose Hill News May and June editions
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
Community Newsletter put together by residents, community organisations and Oxford City Council community workers. This item includes both the May and June editions.<br /><br /><p>"Covid 19 has really shown local communities responding to support those who are more vulnerable within their own communities. Also there has been good joint working between communities, community, and voluntary and statutory organisations within Oxford and Rose Hill is a good example of this." Alan Foulkes, Locality Officer for Oxford City Council. </p>
Alan Foulkes
Museum of Oxford
May and June 2020
The natural world in lockdown
Science, technology and the environment
<p>I have been much more observant of the natural world since lockdown, through being out and about in nature and doing more gardening.<br /><br />Photo 1: My garden<br /><br />Haiku Poem 1: Birds<br /><br />Haiku Poem 2: Wild Flowers<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Angela Stannard
Museum of Oxford
April 2020
Angela Stannard
Knitted over 14 weeks of lockdown
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
"I have finished knitting this shawl/throw, started it at the beginning of lockdown, and have just finished it.It is the shawl from a Harry Potter pattern, called 'The Order of the Phoenix.' knitted for my daughter Clare."
Ann Ellis
Museum of Oxford
June 2020
Working in the West Oxford Hub
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
A personal account from David Juler, the Museum Development Officer at the Museum of Oxford and his brief time supporting the locality hubs set up by Oxford City Council in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.<br /><br />All views expressed are David's.
David Juler
Museum of Oxford
17th April 2020-23rd April 2020
"Artists finds 113 NHS rainbows in Headington" Oxford Mail Article
"Artists finds 113 NHS rainbows in Headington" Oxford Mail Article by Fran Way on 25th April 2020.
Artist Lana Al-Shami has been collating rainbow art into a collage.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18405307.artists-finds-113-nhs-rainbows-headington/
Fran Way, Oxford Mail
Oxford Mail
Oxford Mail
25th April 2020
What is lockdown?
Health and wellness
This project is a video made using PowerPoint. It was done during the time when lockdown restrictions were strictest. It reflects, I hope very simply, the experience of lockdown (or at least the experience for me). The ‘w’ at the beginning of every line started as a coincidence but became an interesting motif.
Freya (Age 12)
Museum of Oxford
Freya (Age 12)
During the lockdown, Headington Market moved online!
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
Our Market Manager created this little graphic of our traders to advertise our move to online trading during the lock down. <br /><br />For many of us this picture provided a bit of a boost, a reminder that our market community remains strong even during the COVID situation. <br /><br />In June, many of our traders have been showing support for our community by delivering ready meals and other goodies to Sobell House Hospice (with funding provided through the charity <a href="https://www.headingtonaction.org/">Headington Action</a>).
Headington Market
Museum of Oxford
2020
Headington Market
A Street in Oxford during Lockdown
Art and photography
Street of Oxford during lockdown taken in March
Image and text by Siqi Zhang
Museum of Oxford
March 2020
Siqi Zhang
Takeaway Only: Restaurants in Lockdown
Retail and industry
Notification of a restaurant only opened for takeaway when lockdown just began.
Image and text by Siqi Zhang
Museum of Oxford
2020
Siqi Zhang
Dawn Chorus in Lockdown
An account of early morning birdsong.
To set the scene, we live in Beaumont Buildings which - although in the centre of Oxford, a stone's-throw from the Randolph - is a very quiet backwater full of trees, shrubs and flowers. At the back we benefit from our neighbours' gardens, many given over to trees and flowering shrubs including a line of three lime trees which dominate the skyline, a Cypress, an elder with a mass of flowers (which I use in more normal times to make wine) a damson and a huge Buddlia which actually manages to attract a few butterflies. Thus, standing at my fourth-floor bathroom window I was looking down on an ocean of many shades of green and a sea of white blossom.
The chorus began just after 5 am. Chorus? It was actually a series of solos begun by our blackbird, with its flute-like song, described as the Beethoven of birds. Perched on the roof ledge about a foot from my eyes, his tuneful trill was followed by solos from a coo-ing dove, a cheerful wren, a robin (whose song is too complicated to describe) and a woodpecker. These are songs I recognize.
Thanks to that omniscient "twitcher", Google , I believe I also heard a blue tit, great tit, and dunnock. Our colony of house sparrows, whose chattering sometimes makes me want to ring the Environment Health people, were strangely silent. Either that or I failed to recognize the unusual sound of a sparrow singing alone.
Our blackbird seemed to conduct the singing. After his own song he flew about as if instructing the others when to begin, sometimes perching on a television aerial to spy around before moving on. After the singing was over it was the blackbirds who first flew about freely as if to say that the show was over.
As soon as the chorus ended, the two pigeons in the damson tree opposite my window began fighting. Perhaps one had said, "Look mate (literally) it was my turn to sing today?".
My overall impression is that there are more birds around than usual. I wonder if anyone else feels this?
Jane Allingham
Museum of Oxford
27 April 2020