Saint posted:

The main page is HERE

 

http://www.theboatrace.org/

 

Place: BBC1 

Date:  24th March 

Time: 15.50 - 18.15pm

 

The Women's Boat Race 4.31pm

The Men's Boat Race 5.32pm

Who to support you  may ask?

Well this may help . . .

In the last 10years . . .

OXFORD have won SEVEN times

OXFORD have won four times in the last five years

OXFORD won last year

http://www.theboatrace.org/results

And the women . . .

In the last 10years . . .

OXFORD have won EIGHT times

OXFORD have won four times in the last fives years

BUT

CAMBRIDGE won last year

Saint posted:

And the women . . .

 

In the last 10years . . .

OXFORD have won EIGHT times

OXFORD have won four times in the last fives years

BUT

CAMBRIDGE won last year

As an Inspector Morse fan, I’m supporting Oxford

Understandable Yogi   

What's in a name - surely nothing

Let's see . . . team names

OXFORD   BENEDICT, FELIX, ZACHARY 

JULIETTE, MYRIAM

CAMBRIDGE HUGO, SPENCER  

IMOGEN, ABIGAIL, SOPHIE

Yogi19 posted:

Saint posted:

And the women . . .

 

In the last 10years . . .

OXFORD have won EIGHT times

OXFORD have won four times in the last fives years

BUT

CAMBRIDGE won last year

As an Inspector Morse fan, I’m supporting Oxford

Ditto 

Reserve crews include . . .

PIERS, GERARD, MATILDA, PIPPA, MADELINE, DAPHNE, MILLIE and ELANOR

There's not a Poppy or a Binky to be seen 

With those names you'd think Oxbridge wasn't culturally diverse

Well there's only one face 'of colour' amongst the lot of them

Aherm . . .

I was invited to an Oxbridge open evening at the kids school (Eldest is and always has been an A* student) If I'm honest i was put off... It's like a little bubble slightly outside the real world, obviously i haven't said this to my daughter as it's her life her choice.

Jen-Star posted:

I was invited to an Oxbridge open evening at the kids school (Eldest is and always has been an A* student) If I'm honest i was put off... It's like a little bubble slightly outside the real world, obviously i haven't said this to my daughter as it's her life her choice.

Did you attend?

Saint posted:

Jen-Star posted:

I was invited to an Oxbridge open evening at the kids school (Eldest is and always has been an A* student) If I'm honest i was put off... It's like a little bubble slightly outside the real world, obviously i haven't said this to my daughter as it's her life her choice.

Did you attend?

The open evening? Yes, there were two students from her school who had been accepted (one into each) and a representative from Cambridge who explained the application process etc. 

Jen-Star posted:

Saint posted:

Jen-Star posted:

I was invited to an Oxbridge open evening at the kids school (Eldest is and always has been an A* student) If I'm honest i was put off... It's like a little bubble slightly outside the real world, obviously i haven't said this to my daughter as it's her life her choice.

Did you attend?

The open evening? Yes, there were two students from her school who had been accepted (one into each) and a representative from Cambridge who explained the application process etc. 

Yes - when I visited Oxford it seemed a bit like that

Beautiful and bustling  . . . but in it's own bubble.

For me that's part of the attraction but not sure if that would wear off after a while.

Oxford, Cambridge, York, Chester, Durham (perhaps) all isolated

See you at 4.30 Renton ....up the blues 

Here at 3.59pm

I’m here 

I’m here. Are we watching the women’s race first?

Hi `Yogi and Renton Yes , I’m watching the women’s race too 

Yogi19 posted:

I’m here. Are we watching the women’s race first?

Ladies first around 4.30pm

Baz posted:

Hi `Yogi and Renton Yes , I’m watching the women’s race too 

Saint posted:

Yogi19 posted:

I’m here. Are we watching the women’s race first?

Ladies first around 4.30pm

What a good idea 

Baz posted:

What a good idea 

It’s looking very overcast there 

Baz posted:

It’s looking very overcast there 

Yes, it’s sunnier up here

He looks a lot older than 13 

6 2 at 13 

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

It’s looking very overcast there 

Yes, it’s sunnier up here

It’s overcadt here too ......

Baz posted:

6 2 at 13 

 He’s a big ‘un 

Hello ladies 

Looks like its gonna rain in London

Sunny in Newcastle

Rowing is my kind of sport -you get to sit down while you do it.

Saint posted:

Hello ladies 

 

Looks like its gonna rain in London

Sunny in Newcastle

 Sunny up here too

Yogi19 posted:

Rowing is my kind of sport -you get to sit down while you do it.

Me too

Baz posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Rowing is my kind of sport -you get to sit down while you do it.

Me too

I have an exercise bike that converts to a rowing machine

Some of them are quite old....they must be doimg PhDs 

Saint posted:

I have an exercise bike that converts to a rowing machine

Do you use it?

Saint posted:

I have an exercise bike that converts to a rowing machine

That sounds energetic 

Baz posted:

Some of them are quite old....they must be doimg PhDs 

 Quite a few in the 26-30 age range