With out putting my life at risk I had a fab mayday in Oxford by avoiding town and the idiots on / under magdalin bridge.

Alarm at 4:30
up at 4:45 and in to britches, long empire line dress, and tail coat (ribbons & flowers into button hole)
5:10: 1st Breakfast
5:30 2 of the people I'm driving out to the Vicky Arms arrive.
5:45 planned leaving time
6:am load up the car with instuments as the 2 Ians have finnally surfaced. The singing from the tower acctually sounds far better outside the back door of the 1/2Moon than from near the bridge (where I was last year.)

A loverly sunny day up at the VickyArms followed compleate with a lampost maypole (the water table didn't allow for the pole to be sunk into the grass.) we planed to move on to the Rose & Crown at about 1pm but were having 2mutch fun where we were so stayed till about 3:30 pm & then headed home (in Taxi) in need of a quiet night in - didn't even make it to the Sun eve session at the moon!

Of course having left the car behind the next morning we were forced to make the most pleasant walk up the cherwell & revisit the scene the next lunch time! ohh it's a hard life ;¬) *ggl*

LIZABEE