For Discuss Social Night, we took Rachel's excellent recommendation and decided to go ont a pnt down the river. We were slightly worried about weather but it was a beautiful evening, with a little bit of chill but in general wonderful conditions. We met down at the Cherwell Boat House with our gifts of food and went to go rent our punts. Because there were ten of of, we rented two punts and divided up. My boat was headed up by the fearless Rachel who was a great punter and knew what she was doing (unlike myself who contemplated punting but eventually decided against it since our boat was always first... well, most of the time first).
As I said, it was an absolutely gorgeous late afternoon (dusk?) and I got this really cool shot of the Celtic Cross in the Dragon School courtyard. As we punted down the river, we saw all sorts of water fowl, including various sizes of geese, ducks, coots, etc. My favorite thing about this was that I saw everything from ducklings and goslings to medium sized ducks and geese, some geese that didnt' have long adult necks yet, etc. We even saw this little duckling, tiny little thing, who kept trying to make its way up the bank to its mum and just couldn't do it! So sad! Finally mum came down and that's the end of the story because we continued down the river and missed out of what happened next.
II was in the boat with Ailsa, Chloe and Olly and we were close enough to the other boat, holding Becky, Ed, Liz, Gareth and Rob, that we were able to chat with them as well.
As we sailed, we also ran into another Discuss group- Pete, Michaela, Rose, Pete, Tom, Stuart and two other people I didn't know- also on the river. There was so lovely little banter going on between us and later, we threw some tomatoes at them as we were punting by while we were eating our picnic. Clearly good relationships were being fostered while we were away from usual Discuss.
As you can see, we had a wonderful picnic spread. Baguettes, baps, sausage rolls, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, strawberries, grapes, various cheeses and spreads, pringles, juices and Jaffa cakes. So yummy, yummy, yummy, we were definitely well fed! Conversation ensued, as well as laughter, light teasing, throwing of tomatoes at aforementioned group, etc.
Here are two pictures of the group- one without me and one with me, taken by a random stranger walking through University Parks where we were having our picnic. Thanks random stranger!
All in all, such a great night! Nobody fell into the river, we didn't hit any banks, only some slight zig zags across the river and everybody parked perfectly. So glad we did this- you're wonderful, Discuss Group!
As I said, it was an absolutely gorgeous late afternoon (dusk?) and I got this really cool shot of the Celtic Cross in the Dragon School courtyard. As we punted down the river, we saw all sorts of water fowl, including various sizes of geese, ducks, coots, etc. My favorite thing about this was that I saw everything from ducklings and goslings to medium sized ducks and geese, some geese that didnt' have long adult necks yet, etc. We even saw this little duckling, tiny little thing, who kept trying to make its way up the bank to its mum and just couldn't do it! So sad! Finally mum came down and that's the end of the story because we continued down the river and missed out of what happened next.
II was in the boat with Ailsa, Chloe and Olly and we were close enough to the other boat, holding Becky, Ed, Liz, Gareth and Rob, that we were able to chat with them as well.
As we sailed, we also ran into another Discuss group- Pete, Michaela, Rose, Pete, Tom, Stuart and two other people I didn't know- also on the river. There was so lovely little banter going on between us and later, we threw some tomatoes at them as we were punting by while we were eating our picnic. Clearly good relationships were being fostered while we were away from usual Discuss.
As you can see, we had a wonderful picnic spread. Baguettes, baps, sausage rolls, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, strawberries, grapes, various cheeses and spreads, pringles, juices and Jaffa cakes. So yummy, yummy, yummy, we were definitely well fed! Conversation ensued, as well as laughter, light teasing, throwing of tomatoes at aforementioned group, etc.
Here are two pictures of the group- one without me and one with me, taken by a random stranger walking through University Parks where we were having our picnic. Thanks random stranger!
All in all, such a great night! Nobody fell into the river, we didn't hit any banks, only some slight zig zags across the river and everybody parked perfectly. So glad we did this- you're wonderful, Discuss Group!
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