Tag Archives: River Thames
Fifteen years ago Lady Lucy went to Henley (happy memories)
Lady Lucy will be sailing on Thursday (First Actuarial Day), Friday (Mallowstreet Day) and Sunday (by invitation). If you’d like to come, contact me on 07785 377768, we might just have a space!
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Pension PlayPen at Henley
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Posted in gloriana, henley
Tagged England, Eric Murray, Hamish Bond, Henley, Henley Royal Regatta, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, River Thames
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Beautiful women, beautiful boats and beautiful days on the river!
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry’s holy shade; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor’s heights th’ expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise boats, gloriana, Lady Lucy, pension playpen, poetry
Tagged Conditions and Diseases, Eric Thames, Health, Henry, London, River Thames, Shopping, Thames
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Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain
The River Thames is hammering past my patio delivering the rain that’s fallen in mid England back to the ocean, it curls under Windsor bridge and pounds down to Romney Weir past Minivet and on to Eton College. Years ago … Continue reading
Posted in Change, cricket, football, Horse racing
Tagged Britishness, England, Eton College, Lytham St Annes, Rain, River Thames, Robert Rock, Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
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Do not be terrorised by anti-terrorism.
I feel like a stranger in my own City. This is not my London that I live in, it is a town that has been handed over to the security forces. We are a town under threat of a “known … Continue reading
Posted in London, Olympics, Olympics 2012
Tagged England, London, Olympic, Olympic Games, River Thames, Security guard, Surface-to-air missile, Thames
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All the Queen’s Men (overtime at Romney Weir)
What do you do when you come back from Church on a wet April Sunday morning? If you live opposite Romney Weir in Eton, you can enjoy watching eight engineers monitoring how the largest archmides screw in Europe is coping with the extra flows … Continue reading
Posted in Change, happiness, Henry Tapper blog
Tagged Archimedes Screw, Church, Council Tax, Engineer, Eton, Eton College, Queen, River Thames, Romney, Romney Lock, Wikipedia, Windsor
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From Eton to Canary Wharf
This morning I travel from Eton to Canary Wharf, following the River Thames as it flows from Windsor Castle to the Isle of Dogs. My journey takes me by car up Eton High Street, past the college, past the Thames … Continue reading
Posted in Lady Lucy, London
Tagged Canary Wharf, Eton College, Isle of Dogs, Jubilee Line, London Bridge Station, River Thames, South West Trains, Windsor Castle
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Trenton Oldfield – send the plonker home!
Trenton Oldfield is the fellow who swam in front of the Oxford and Cambridge crews in yesterday’s 158th boat race. Video here. He is Mr Chippy, an Australian intellectual so carried away by his peculiar world view that he put his … Continue reading
Posted in Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Tagged Boat Race, Emily Davison, London, Oxford, River Thames, Royal Society of Arts, Thames, Tideway
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Fifteen years ago Lady Lucy went to Henley (happy memories)
Lady Lucy will be sailing on Thursday (First Actuarial Day), Friday (Mallowstreet Day) and Sunday (by invitation). If you’d like to come, contact me on 07785 377768, we might just have a space!
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