0409.xml 0411.xml 0410.jpg 09/06/1975 The Cherwell, University Parks [none] 1/125 sec., f8. Because this one was slightly blurry, it was tucked away and there was no contemporary comment. Something about photos of thirty-year-old punting trips in idyllic weather makes finding words – let alone witty, cheerful words – difficult. They tempt me to imagine that there was this time of golden happiness in the long-distant past. But was it heaven? No. We were not especially happy (or the opposite). We knew we were living an idyll – a brief idyll in the midst of furious revision and unprecedented exam tension – but we were not ready for it.