Picture of the Week: #24

It has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegone, or "Oxford" as some like to call it. Having no work, although very entertaining, does tend to leave me at something of a loose end. Luckily, though, Oxford has enough entertainment to keep one...err...entertained, and it has done so this week, as I have been (on various days) a tourist, a world-weary city resident reading under a tree by the river, a spoilt brat greeting over-privileged people out of their exams (ahem), and the kind of person who stays up late and sleeps past noon.

This week's photo comes from the first of my various guises, and was taken in Magdalen College, looking at the colourful punts that are hired out to tourists. The tributaries of the Thames that run through Oxford have been central to the city's development, even to the point of providing it with its name, and it's very pleasing for some reason to think that they continue to provide so much for what must be one of the city's most profitable industries.