St Edward's Rhubarb Issue 5

22 ST EDWARD’S r h u b a r b

2007 Ione Braddick (M, 2002-2007) is a Project Architect at the six- person practice Archio Ltd, who were shortlisted for BD Young Architect of the Year 2016. The Young Architect of the Year Award recognises the most promising new architectural practice in the European Union, and is open to fully qualified architects who have been in practice for 12 years or less. Ione writes: “It is one of the most prestigious awards in our industry and as you can imagine we were pretty thrilled to make it to the last eight. We are delighted with this recognition for our hard-working team, our projects and our clients.” For more information on Archio or any of their current or future projects, please feel free to get in touch with Ione at ibraddick@ archio.co.uk or visit their website: www.archio.co.uk 2007 AlexWiggins (A, 2002-2007) is a Sports Massage Therapist and founder of Oxford Sports and Remedial Massage ( www.oxmassage.co.uk ), a ‘home-visit’ massage service. 2010 Christopher Burrows (B, 2005-2010) is an organist and organ consultant to Downe House, and has completed his PhD on Brahms’ Requiem . Grace Robinson (K, 2005-2010) writes: “I had always wanted to cycle the length of the country, and naturally, I decided to do top- to-bottom as in my head it seemed downhill and subsequently easier. Little did I know it is in fact harder! Alongside my cycling partner, Tom Pottage, an old friend and Salisbury’s answer to Bradley Wiggins, my legs would have to work double time to keep up, but his bike fixing skill sealed the deal. We chose two charities to support, the Injured Players Foundation and Wings for Life. A mutual friend of ours, Jack Fishwick, went into a ruck in 2013 and was badly injured and he is now paralyzed from the armpits down. It really hit home, for both Tom and I, and we wanted to help Jack in any way we could and others like him. Overall, we raised just over £3000

major bike issues and with only one fall, one knock by a car and one puncture. It was quite overwhelming coming up over the brow of the hill and seeing the Land’s End building and as we did so, the sun came out for our finish! I can honestly say I loved every second of it, and am now a triathlete converted to cyclist. Although lonely at times (conversation does deteriorate when there are only two of you and you are quite literally spending 24 hours a day together), we saw some beautiful scenery, experienced parts of the UK we wouldn’t normally have had a chance to visit, met some amazing people, and encountered so much kindness along the way. I can now say I am officially an End- to-Ender!

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Grace Robinson

2012 Patrick Burrows (B, 2007-2012) is teaching German to Jordanian children, and is now fluent in Arabic, German and Persian. 2011 Max Narula (A, 2006-2011) graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in July 2014 with a First Class degree in Technical Theatre: Lighting Design, also winning the Gold Medal for that year. Afterwards, in October, he won the Association of Lighting Designers Michael Northen Bursary for emerging Lighting Designers. He now works as a freelance Lighting Designer and Lighting Programmer for opera, ballet, plays and musicals in the UK and internationally, recently working on Elf the Musical , Rebecca (UK Tour), and with English Touring Opera and the Royal Opera House. 2013 Sam MacDonald-Smith (H, 2008- 2013) was commissioned on Saturday 1st August 2015 as a Reserve Officer from RMA Sandhurst after completing an 8-week intensive course. He is now a 2nd Lieutenant at Northumbrian UOTC for his final year at Durham University before a gap year and Regular Sandhurst beginning in May 2017.

between us and every single penny got split between the two charities. John O’Groats to Lands End took 12 days in total and my inner geographer took a lot of delight in getting massive maps out and studying them in conjunction with various cycle touring routes and blogs from other end-to-enders. We started at Duncansby Head, the most northern tip of the UK. I decided that we would try to stay with as many friends across the country as possible to keep the cost down, and to get periodic “pick-me-ups”. In total, we managed to stay with eight friends along the way, including a friend from South Africa, some of the Worcester Warriors Rugby players, Durham University friends, Salisbury friends, School friends, family- friends and various friends’ parents at their family homes. We thought Scotland was hilly but it was nothing in comparison to Devon, and to add insult to injury the weather was dreadful. Ironically, we had bright sunshine the entire way through Scotland getting sunburnt and dehydrated but as soon as we hit the border, the weather turned and was against us until five miles before the end. We had torrential rain for most of the trip and a head wind that was like cycling into a tornado. We crossed the finishing ribbon and had a bottle of Champagne on ice waiting for us with family and friends. It was very surreal finishing the trip, knowing we had cycled 1198 miles non-stop, that we had actually done it without a row or