sorry to tell you this kenty but oxford have has a major set back in preperation for the boat race:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 419307.stm

I did see that actually.

It's probably a good thing that happened it now, so it can get fixed before it happens in the real thing.

We don't want Cambridge to win.

Hey pok , hear Kent's getting really bad weather..

Yeah, I woke up this morning at The University, opened the curtains...and outside was a couple of inches of snow!!!

And it was the last day of term as well.

I left Canterbury this morning to travel back home to Gillingham - East Kent got off pretty lightly, but still badly.

I got to the station, saw that trains both to London and the Kent Coast were starting to be delayed and get cancelled. I was lucky to catch a delayed train home and any avoid further disruption.

As the train went through North Kent, I could see through the train window that the area had been hit very badly.

When I arrived in Gillingham, the road leading from Gillingham station to my house was just one thick sheet of ice. It was like that when it snowed in February. I walked up the garden path when I got home and literally had to wade through the snow to get to the back door, that's how bad it was.

Apparantly, the Gills were asking for volunteers to clear the pitch before tomorrows home game with Stockport.

They were offering the fans who went a free ticket for tomorrow's game.

And what's more, more snow is predicted overnight here....

The Loids were offering free tickets to their match against Northampton tomorrow to anyone who turned up today to clear the snow, apparently 5 turned up.

The Boat Race, .... in which two groups of braying Ruperts, expensively educated beyond their ability to comprehend, take part in a pointless race in 'boats' of dubious capability to cope with even the fookin Thames, to claim the bragging rights and adoration of a group of narcissistic tvvats infesting the local bars and contemporary restaurants of that smug part of London.
if I had my way, the course would be mined, then I'd watch it.

Well, as I say, if you don't have any affiliation to either Oxford or Cambridge whatsoever, then it can feel pretty meaningless to watch, but in the years I've watched it there have been some great close races - especially when Oxford won by a foot in 2003. That was a great race.

People think rowing isn't a sport, but you do need to be physically and mentally strong to be good at it I think.

That's what the Boat Race shows. In this country, people tend to focus their attention on only a certain group of the most popular sports. Things like the Boat Race are an opportunity for people in this country to see big events from sports that are outside the most popular group.

The amount of snow East Kent got was less than in Gillingham in North Kent, but the snow still caused disruption.

I thought that as well Mutters, but decided to let it pass.

we have a roof thus preventing the snow in the house issue.

ah just realised you like going in the back door