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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
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Objects and stories about the people of Oxford's responses, stories, and feelings during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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Image 1: deserted high street
Image 2: deserted beaumont street
Image 3: deserted holywell street
Image 4: deserted christ church meadow
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Missing the Hustle and Bustle
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"At first I enjoyed the peace and quiet, and the cleaner air with hardly any traffic. Once I was the only person on High Street; on another occasion I seemed to have Christ Church Meadow all to myself. <br /><br />In spring the city would be thronged with the first wave of foreign language students. Their numbers and noise irritated me so it was good to have some respite. As the days passed and the novelty wore off, I suddenly realised that all the assumed benefits were reminders that we were living in a dystopian nightmare; facing an existential crisis that the peace and quiet accentuated. <br /><br />The normality that returns will never be the same, and nor would we expect it to be. We want to keep the cleaner air, and less congested roads. But I want the foreign language students to return, and all our other visitors, and they can be as noisy as they like."
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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
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Bob Weatherhead
Publisher
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Museum of Oxford
Date
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April 2020
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Bob Weatherhead
Coronavirus
Creative Writing
Lockdown
Oxford
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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
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Objects and stories about the people of Oxford's responses, stories, and feelings during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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Image: blackbird on black wooden fence at sunrise
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Dawn Chorus in Lockdown
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An account of early morning birdsong.
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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?
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Jane Allingham
Publisher
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Museum of Oxford
Date
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27 April 2020
Bird Song
Covid-19
Creative Writing
Isolation
Lockdown