Photo Album 99/00
Michaelmas 1999
Michaelmas term 1999 saw the launch of ToastieSoc, Oxford's premier toasted sandwich society, dedicated to the appreciation and eating of these delicacies. Yet it was also a term of more than this: meeting lots of new friends, numerous meals out, drunkeness, belly-dancing (at least for the Mure girls), bops, Matriculation, Halloween, the Time Ceremony, Bonfire Night, the ball (a.k.a. Merton Bollock) and hard work (hmm... yes, well...), amongst other things. Not to mention the naughty, naughty toasties. Here are some of the highlights captured in photographic form for the first time ever...
Halloween and the Merton Time Ceremony: the night of the cat-dressing, cross-dressing and undressing (?)
ToastieSoc Christmas Soiree: a night of glitz, glamour and toasties - all in Mure!
Merton Christmas Ball '99: stand in a freezing cold marquee in the middle of December wearing nothing but a strappy ball gown - Oxford's most exciting night out ever!
SPECIAL FEATURE!!!!
ToastieSoc Press Secretary and Public Relations Officer Andrew sits in the middle of a large field
ToastieSoc Committee Photo - meet the faces behind the toasties
Hilary 2000
The President's Birthday: experience a virtual commemoration of the passing of the nineteenth annum in the life of Her Majesty Queen Rosalind the First Defender of the Toasties (in other words look at my birthday photos)
End of term rampancy (word?): we did do slightly more this term than just celebrate my birthday
Easter Vac 2000
Five go mad in County Durham: discover smugglers, secret coves and sheep along with our intrepid explorers Leonie, Phil, Thomas, Helen and Ros the cat (I refuse to be a Timmy imitation)
Murder in the vicarage: a murder mystery party extravaganza chez Benedict's.
Trinity 2000
Ah, exam term! What fun we did have as we sweated and sunbathed our way through sheet loads of Sarraute. And punted, and perambulated, and drank, and danced.... Trinity term is the time to be in Oxford. Despite our humiliating defeat at croquet in cuppers (26-2), we overcame our sorrow to enjoy May morning celebrations, sunshine, champagne on the lawns, St. John's ball, and the hottest week of the year (just in time for my first exam).
May morning: 4am climbing through windows, Magdalen choir singing from the tower (very Shadowlands), sunrise in Fellow's garden, champagne on the lawn, and that disasterous, vile Union breakfast
St. John's ball - but NO Billie! Possibly the most traumatic event of the year!!!
Oxford arty-farty pics - from throughout the year