Flood

There was only a few minutes today that it was raining, this morning the rain was particularly heavy, and with all this rain the drains and roads become very full.  Here on the Woodstock Road the council had to put out signs warning motorist of flooding on the roads.  Traffic was very slow this morning with the heavy rainfall disrupting a lot of the buses and trains in the city.

Sarah Outen Indian Row Boat

Sarah Outen who rowed from Fremantle, Australia across the Indian Ocean to Mauritius in this specially designed row boat this year, was in Oxford to giver her first public lecture about her time on the water and her 3 world records. Serendipity, her boat for the trip was at St Edwards School where the talk took place, according to her website, Sarah took 124 days to row the 4000 miles alone across the Indian Ocean. Looking at her boat it definitely was not a pleasure trip.

St Edward's Lodge

The Lodge at the Private School in North Oxford, St Edwards.  It looked very Oxford in the early morning sun this morning with the lawn freshly mowed and flag flying at full mast. Not sure what happens in here I think it is part of the Administration of the School.

Army Helicopter XX378

This Westland SA-341B Gazelle was on the playing fields of St Edward's School this morning, not sure why it was at the School?  The Gazelle is one of the fastest helicopters ever built with a top speed of 310km per hour, it has been used by all of the three branches of the British Armed Forces, first seeing combat action in the Falkland Islands conflict.