What more pleasant way to spend a warm 4th July than punting down a river?
At the Cherwell boathouse with the edge off the heat of the day punters were taking full advantage of the late evening light.
Despite preparing for a wedding party about to descend, the boathouse restaurant offered us a drink and a seat on a warm stone wall with the ducks on the edge of the Cherwell
before we walked over to the garden of nearby St Hugh's college for a birthday party.
St Hugh's was founded in the late 1800s by Elizabeth Wordsworth (great-niece of poet William) to help the growing number of women "who find the charges of the present Halls at Oxford and Cambridge (even the most moderate) beyond their means". Good for you, Elizabeth.
Oxford July 2015
