Double whammy win!

Whoohoooo! Oxford won the Boat Race today - twice! Many congratulations to the ladies in particular. Not sure why their race has been relegated to another time and another place for the last 88 years, but today was their day and it was great to see Oxford triumph so convincingly over Cambridge. Likewise the chaps!

I had a bit of a good vantage point, on the umpire's launch, to get this shot of the dark blues streaking ahead of the pale blues,

and then again from the helicopter to see Oxford on one side of Barnes Railway Bridge, and Cambridge lagging behind on the other!

You can probably tell I am an Oxford supporter! After all the hours I spent on the Thames riverbanks, trainers' launches, and hanging around boathouses when I was 18, endlessly waiting for a Oxford rower boyfriend, it is hardly surprising. Oh, and my dad was an Oxford man, so it's in the blood anyway!

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In a vase on Monday - colour

The intense colours in my vase this week come from nasturtiums, sweetpeas and a single glorious zinnia! Their beauty and love of life speak for themselves and need no further words from me! Enjoy!

Possibly the last post and a sizzlingly hot vase on Monday

The border in our tiny garden is in an in-between phase at the moment and not very colourful, but elsewhere there are pops of high summer colour and I have brought them together in my vase today. The running wave uses Blogger as it's vehicle and they are changing the way a post is created but unfortunately I cannot make the new format work. I can't progress beyond the title! I cannot navigate to the main body of the post to create text. The new template has no prompts for adding photos, weblinks, to format the text, change font etc. It may be my old MacBook that's as fault but I can't do anything about that!! Are any other IAVOM bloggers who use Blogger having the same problems? I have tried, three times, to contact Blogger through their 'Help' prompt and received no feedback or contact whatsoever. This post is using the old 'Legacy' format, which no longer permits any kind of formatting of text, and so after four attempts I have finally manage...

Early morning light

There have been some cracking early morning skies this week. The sunrise has generated a strong rose gold light which has been picked up not only in the clouds but also through the silver-white grasses around the edge of the golf course. I always marvel at the clouds. Constantly changing, formations that have never been seen before, never to be seen again.

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