Punter

At the helm, originally uploaded by Jonny Hanlon.

This trip is well and truly wrapping up. Yesterday Melinda and Alan and myself wandered down to the river for a spot of punting, which is what anyone who is anybody in Oxford does when the weather is good and they aren’t busy writing theses or crime novels or attending high tea.

Punting is terribly hard work. As a passenger one must sit down and drink wine and eat strawberries, which is not a task to be taken lightly.
Then you must t eat the finest croissants from the delicatessen, crammed with Somerset ham and Dutch cheese. As I said, this is very hard work. Do not under any circumstances try this at home. (Unless you have a slow flowing river running through your garden)

Tomorrow I am off to London for a quick visit to meet a cousin of mine before I fly home on Wednesday.

Be good!

~ by jonnyhanlon on August 31, 2008.