Downstream

people not to do that because
it places more stress on the
back and neck. But in the
Thames I was really careful
not to swallow water.’
Esther Browning is another
long-time Oxford resident,
having arrived as an eighteen-
year-old to study Human
Sciences. One of the
attractions was the river; she
rowed for her college and was
a member of the Wallingford
Rowing Club, racing on the