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Thames Water’s latest casualty – Oxford’s blue boat.

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Affluence and effluence

We had been warned

12 years on from Trenton Oldfield’s unwanted intervention

Oxford University’s president admitted in his post race interview to having been struck down by “poo in the water” , leaving him puking that morning. Being the noble fellow that he is, he decided to row anyway and the runaway favorites lost by a country mile. This despite the Cambridge stroke breaking down with half a mile to go.

It appears that it was Thames Water wot won it for Cambridge.

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It caps off a pretty grim week for the water company whose 9 shareholders declared the company “uninvestable”.  Ironically, they included the University Superannuation Scheme which owns nearly a fifth of the ailing firm.

Oxford’s brainless cox!

In the women’s race the drama came from Oxford who mistook the boat race for Torpids and rammed Cambridge. I never had a high opinion of Oxford student intelligence, but this suggests their cox could be lining up a strategy position at Thames Water.

Oxford cox Joe Gellett raised an appeal at the conclusion of the race as he believed the Cambridge boat had crossed their path, but after a debate with umpire Richard Phelps the appeal was dismissed.

Phelps said Oxford had in fact moved into Cambridge’s station and bumped their boat. Same old Oxford…

The winning teams did not enter the water at the end of the race and they were also told to avoid swallowing any water because of high levels of E. coli in the Thames.

Thanks to Michelle Bavington for the vid.

Tales from the riverbank

I am currently living on the river in Eton

At the beginning of their spring term, the boys could not go back to school, raw sewage was bubbling out of the drains , a gift from Thames Water. There’s no getting away from affluent effluence.

Wildlife change

Am I getting paranoid or is the river creating  strange behavior in the local waterfowl.

After so much rain, the cormorants are indulging in some late evening sun-bathing.  Some evenings we can see as many as 50 cormorants perched on the trees by the weir.

A grim foreboding for the Thames and Thames Water.

For all this doom , the Thames remains the most majestic of waterways.

Though upstream,  the river on boat race day, continued to prevent any boating for Lady Lucy!

Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song

 

 

 

 

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