It's been a little while, but I had a super busy weekend! On Saturday, I met up with some of my university friends to go punting (despite living in Cambridge for most of my life, I am dreadful at punting and can barely maneuver the pole since it is so heavy.) My boyfriend also came, and then stayed over until yesterday! It was super fun.
For the punting, we split into a guy's punt and a girl's punt. Since two of us girls came from Cambridge and had punted before we were guessing that we'd win the race. We decided that it should be a race, since we are competitive and thought it'd be fun to beat them.
Unfortunately, it seems that guys are naturally gifted at punting... All of them were good at it, without even really trying! So unfair. We got to the half way point a long way behind them - they were already turning back. So we craftily stole David (the boyfriend, haha) and had him punt us back to the start.
He was not even particularly tired afterwards, although it is harder upstream and he did it the entire way. When I tried to punt for about 10 minutes, the punt span around and didn't really go anywhere. We also crashed into just about every other punt on the river... super shaming. My only saving grace was that I didn't fall in or lose the pole like a tourist.
We've already planned the next excursion - some time this summer, we shall engage in pirate punting. Punt hopping, bridge hopping, copious amounts of rum and pirate costumes.
However, spring is most definitely here! The sun keeps coming out, and the trees are all blooming - one of the reasons I love where I live is because it's so green, with so many plants. I keep stopping to take cheeky photos of the blossom. I just wish there was more! Cherry, plum, apple, magnolia blossom trees. Crêpes from the crêpe stand in town, sitting on the greens. It's pretty nostalgic, really.
For now, it's time to revise. But I've had tons of good ideas for my novel - might post about some of them soon, or about my conlang. At the moment I'm also deciding on a name change for one of my principle characters - I just don't like the old name so much. It's tough to find a better one that fits, though.
For the punting, we split into a guy's punt and a girl's punt. Since two of us girls came from Cambridge and had punted before we were guessing that we'd win the race. We decided that it should be a race, since we are competitive and thought it'd be fun to beat them.
Unfortunately, it seems that guys are naturally gifted at punting... All of them were good at it, without even really trying! So unfair. We got to the half way point a long way behind them - they were already turning back. So we craftily stole David (the boyfriend, haha) and had him punt us back to the start.
He was not even particularly tired afterwards, although it is harder upstream and he did it the entire way. When I tried to punt for about 10 minutes, the punt span around and didn't really go anywhere. We also crashed into just about every other punt on the river... super shaming. My only saving grace was that I didn't fall in or lose the pole like a tourist.
We've already planned the next excursion - some time this summer, we shall engage in pirate punting. Punt hopping, bridge hopping, copious amounts of rum and pirate costumes.
However, spring is most definitely here! The sun keeps coming out, and the trees are all blooming - one of the reasons I love where I live is because it's so green, with so many plants. I keep stopping to take cheeky photos of the blossom. I just wish there was more! Cherry, plum, apple, magnolia blossom trees. Crêpes from the crêpe stand in town, sitting on the greens. It's pretty nostalgic, really.
For now, it's time to revise. But I've had tons of good ideas for my novel - might post about some of them soon, or about my conlang. At the moment I'm also deciding on a name change for one of my principle characters - I just don't like the old name so much. It's tough to find a better one that fits, though.
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