Only in a university city...

So, as is my wont on the way back from Cubs, I treated myself to a carry-out from the Indo-Chinese takeaway on the corner of Stockmore St, which, while it looks grubby and unimpressive from the outside, is actually brilliant. As is also my habit, I had a book to read while waiting, in this case Caroline Walker Bynum's Wonderful Blood, on blood devotions in late mediaeval Europe.

As I was waiting for my chilli-and-basil pork (not bad, but not as good as the pork, chilli and peanut fried noodles, for the record), a voice behind me said "So, did you see her when she was over here last year?" And I found myself falling into conversation with an art historian who's giving the paper on the Rothschild Canticles tomorrow at the mediaeval church and culture seminar.

This does not often happen to me in takeaways, even round here, but it's rather fun when it does.

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