Soooo, What Are We All Putting In Our Hampers For Henley?

[EpicChaos]

Are you buying from Fortnums, or are you getting the caterers in, perhaps?
If we're doing our own, I'll chip in a bottle of violet flavoured gin, so that boiledbeetle can try it, while we cheer the boys on, possibly even as they win the girls events.
I might even organise some little sausage rolls and some salmon paste sarnies
( no expense whatsoever gone to, lol :-D )

Row, Row Row The Boat, Gently Down The Stream

Stickers? Some signs?

Upside down cake.

Oh, that's a great idea @Helleofabore there'll be plenty of boats to sticker and we can get a couple of volunteers to distract the judges, whilst a couple of stickers are stuck to their backs.

Upside down cake @IcakethereforeIam what? just the one? Not plural? :-/ Poor show that, it has to be said :-(
Any chance of a chocolate fudge cake, at all?

Isn't cake one of those words, like sheep and fish, where you don't always need an 's' to make a plural?

Saveloys?

@IcakethereforeIam " Isn't cake one of those words, like sheep and fish, where you don't always need an 's' to make a plural? "

Best not to leave anything like that to chance where cake is concerned, i feel.
We could all assume you mean more than one, couldn't we but can you imagine the upset if you only turned up on the day with just one? It would be awful, literal violence, even. Definitely best to double check.
Not sure why you'd want to take a sheep to Henley but whatever floats your boat, i spose ;-)

Oh good call @BettyFilous I haven't had one of those in years, yes, they'll go down a treat.

Apologies btw to a @flyingbuttress, who had already posted a thread on this subject, i didn't spot it when i looked. Sorry.

Does anyone have any hens or capons, we could have fresh eggs! Then use the shells to cross the river 🧙‍♀️

Sheep, hens and capons, plus an undisclosed number of cakes. I'm going to need a van. Thank gawd I'm not bringing a fox! I'd be ferrying back and forth all day.

:-D
@IcakethereforeIam " Sheep, hens and capons, plus an undisclosed number of cakes. I'm going to need a van. Thank gawd I'm not bringing a fox! I'd be ferrying back and forth all day. "

LOLz! :-D We could all watch in totes amazeballsment, as you worked the (c)oracle
Just don't leave the fox with the hens but particularly, don't leave the fox with the cake/s!

But what if the fox identifies as cake or hens?

It is 3.30 and I’ve had no sleep and I’m now in the verge of delirium, in my head I can mash fox, cake and hens and get, maybe appropriately, fake ends?

If it identified as headgear you could <pause for dramatic effect> wear the fox hat.

I'll get my capon.

😶

This thread had already baffled me and now I am totally lost. Help! Bo Peep! Where are you?

Henley Regatta has apparently established in 1839. It was about 150 years before women got to take part beginning in 1988, and now 35 years later the girls' competition is disappearing, to all intents and purposes.

From reading the article this appears to be about helping boys get into a top university, another sphere women were denied for a long time and still have yet to reach equal opportunity in. Women and girls just don't really matter, do we?

There’s an article in the Telegraph this morning confirming that the 2015 Cambridge Women’s Boat Race 8 included a mtf rower. I hadn’t realised.

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