Magdalen Bridge with punts, 1980
I have just posted the first new Chronicle since my old account was closed, here. I had already written about a quarter of this when my earlier account was deleted so lost it and have had to reconstruct the beginning, at least. This is based on a quite an extensive journal entry I wrote shortly afterwards and some letters I wrote to A to which she responded, giving me some more detail. The events were so memorable that I can still recall most of them very clearly, even thirty seven years later!
This episode features punting and this is a photo of the punt rollers, mentioned in the piece, between the upper and lower Cherwell which I took the following summer. The girl at front left is really rather splendid and is wearing an unusually short skirt for the time. In Oxford, the flat deck is always at the bow but in Cambridge it is at the stern and it is on this that Cambridge punters, like J, stand.
