Bits and Pieces: Oxbridge annual boat race

After getting back from KL, I had one night in my bed and then a quick flight to London for 8 days of work. It wasn't meant to go that long (only 4 initially), but life right now seems to be playing tricks on me. This trick was get on a plane with 4 days of clothes and then figure out how to stretch that to double the number of days. I did laundry through a hotel service for the first time ever and washed more clothes in the sink because I just couldn't see spending 4 pounds to get a t-shirt washed.

Part of the reason I had to stay longer was I got massively ill on Friday, like sleep on the bathroom floor ill. I don't know what it was. On Thursday, I only ate a salad for lunch in the canteen and some chips. I'm praying that was not the culperate because I need to be able to eat in that canteen through September 2016. That is going to be a long 2 years of no subsidised food if the canteen must be dead to me now.

I've never had a worse bug in my life. Just awful. I probably could have flown on Sunday morning, but then I would have needed to fly back on Monday morning for work anyways, so I stayed. I got some work done on Sunday and then headed to the Oxford v Cambridge annual boat race on the River Thames. I got a great spot on the Putney bridge to watch the start and then as it was starting to rain, I had a great spot for getting back quickly to the tube.

Oxford won (which is who I choose to support based on number of friends from each - O 2 C 0)! I'm definitely a t-shirt fan though because I had to text said friends to figure out which color Oxford was.

Here's a film of the start:

Una got in on the action - can see the Cambridge boat in backround. She rooted for Oxford as well. Naturally, I got strange looks taking this picture.

Putting the boats in at the dock

I think this is Cambridge's reserves team. I thought at first it was the actual team, but it was definitely the reserves team that raced before the big race.