Boat Race, Great Ouse, Cambridgeshire

[Bald Rick]

Just been watching the women’s race ..

Very flat, pretty boring and wet looking albeit likely fertile


And respect to the man watching off the roof of his combine.

 

[Paddington]

Is that the crews or the land ?

 

[Bald Rick]

Is that the crews or the land ?

Guess ....

 

[br jones]

cant be bothered,same 2 teams in the final every year,bit of a fiddle methinks

 

[7610 super q]

It was always boring........now we have the life history of each individual taking part.
" Tarquin Sinjin Smyth is taking a year out to study quantum physics.... "

Yeah, and I'm scraping barnacles off my dingy, but I don't go on about it......

 

[Nearly]

Son was at school with the 2 women from Yarm.

 

[Yale]

Son was at school with the 2 women from Yarm.

Isn‘t Yarm a posh place oop north?

 

[Nearly]

Isn‘t Yarm a posh place oop north?

The school thinks it is.
Before this the only thing it was famous for was the cock and balls on the roof that goggle earth picked up.

 

[spanners and hammers]

cambridge should win they got longer boat ( to fit the name on )

 

[Nearly]

Isn‘t Yarm a posh place oop north?

Isn't Yale a posh place in Merica?

 

[Yale]

Isn't Yale a posh place in Merica?

Never heard of it,it’s the English version of our valley name.

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[Northern territory]

It was always boring........now we have the life history of each individual taking part.
" Tarquin Sinjin Smyth is taking a year out to study quantum physics.... "

Yeah, and I'm scraping barnacles off my dingy, but I don't go on about it......

Don’t you feel that about a lot of sport now? Paralysis by analysis. When I was a kid you switched grandstand on and straight into the action. We seem to love talking about people now rather than actually watching.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Nice to see some recognisable land marks, yep saw the combine viewing platform.

 

[onthehoof]

Shows how vulnerable we are though with the river 20ft above the land!

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Shows how vulnerable we are though with the river 20ft above the land!

Gave me quite a turn seeing sailing dinghies passing above the car.
Mind you, in Porthmadog we talk about going up to the harbour!

 

[DairyGrazing]

Isn't Yale a posh place in Merica?

The key people?

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Can't understand why they just don't fit an engine on the back of the boat .....would save a lot hassle . Could be done with one person then !

 

[JP1]

EA taking plenty of credit for clearing the weed on the new route this year

 

[Nearly]

EA taking plenty of credit for clearing the weed on the new route this year

Apart from the clump in midstream....

 

[Two Tone]

I’m regarded as a traitor round here for supporting Cambridge but partly farming in Oxfordshire. But I was born in Cambridge. Well done to both men’s and women’s teams winning today!
Mind you it would have been rough for them to have lost on home ground.

The start at Queen Adelaide village has three railway lines (two of which are level crossings) and the river run through it.
My mother and her identical twin sister were brought up there.
That stretch of the Great Ouse is all man made and replaced the original river that ran further to the East. Much of which went through my Grandfather’s farm. My Mum and aunt would be sent up to the old river bed to collect coal that the barges threw overboard when they bottomed out.

Great to see the Fenlands in Spring. I can smell the crops growing there from here!