And you thought you had timing problems?

Paddle on 15,17,19,21,23 - backing down 2,4,6,8,10 .... GO!

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"I'll try the cuddling thing too...!"

The Skipper then tried the cuddling approach. Didn't quite time it properly, did we?:

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Go on, let me have a seat for Henley...

Dancing Boy Young decided to take a breather from his place on the London RC podium of choice, to make sure he had a seat reserved for the end of June...

"Go on coach, pleeeease..."

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"Oh, go on. I promise I'll cuddle you all night!"

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Caught you looking!

As ever, CBRC brought out it's finest fillies for the evening's festivities.
The Men's Captain is to be commended for the attention he has paid to the squad all year, but it would appear one particular lady required a closer inspection.

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Oldest swinger in town...

After a quick thrash down the Thames, CBRC are never to be underestimated in the fashion stakes.
Cue Crusher in his pre-Twickenham warm up routine:

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HORR ing about

An uncustomary number of red faces were to be seen amongst our Men's Squad this weekend.... but not due to their racing!
The weather was more like regatta season in Putney on Saturday, and there was plenty of pinkness to prove it. A number of the crew members returned to shore a slighlty different colour, but the best comedy sunburn goes to Alice "streetboy" Cawthorne... After a morning wearing has baseball cap backwards (allegedly to keep his locks out of his eyes), his forehead acquired a rather fetching semi-circle of rouge, and a nice white band!

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Oooh!, Young Man....

Whilest sharing a nice cup of coffee over breakfast with Mrs Lush on Sunday morning, imagine my surprise to find a full page on our beloved sport in the sports section of the Bristol Evening Post - The Green'un.
I was drawn to the piece about "Hall and Downey", aka the Nottingham Bathing Couple (see earlier posting). Now, we are proud of our Learn2Row course, and all those that go through it - but anyone would think we are running an old people's home:
..."I am particularly pleased with the progress I have made over the last 18 months, especially for a man of my age"...
Step forward Mr "Crusher" Downey for your goodie bag of Cod Liver Oil, pipe and slippers.

Who drives you on?

Whilest battling through the last few weeks of a particularly cold winter, I hear that our coxes have been coming up with even more novel ways of encouraging crews...

It is rumoured that the novice women used the paddle up to the start of Gloucester Head this weekend to discuss who were the best looking men in the CBRC squads. The top contenders were then allocated a number of strokes for each push during the race - dependent upon their desirability.

No-one knows who was "the push for 10", but I hear that the Men's Skipper was the "Easy Oar"!

Italian Job

Yet another nominee for Crash of the Year has reared its ugly head this morning.

One of the senior mens crews had been watching a few too many videos, and for this morning's outing decided to rig a four to emulate the Italian international crew.

"Tell you what, whilst we are at it we could make this really difficult, and try and steer from 2, just like the Abbagnale Brothers?"

Needless to say, they forgot that Americans are used to driving on the other side of the road, and put one in charge of the steering.

City of Bristol is pleased to be the new owner of another set of bent riggers....

A true triumph of ambition over ability!

Tub single

Spotted out on the docks yesterday, City's secret weapon to win the 'Diamonds' at Henley :-


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Carnage

http://www.livejournal.com/~berrimar/302.html
At least our girls only managed to wreck a trailer, two fins and a rudder....

All new camera with 'Drink-O-Vision'

This morning I have been sent the results of product testing for a brand new camera.
The product aims to replicate the exact nature of the vision of the subject contained within the photo. As you will be able to see, the results from the lab indicate that the test was successful, and that the subject had a great 30th Birthday!

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Happy Birthday Coach!

Lush Awards 2005

This year I am very pleased to nominate someone to speak on my behalf at the Annual Club Ball (I am very shy, you know?).

As ever I am looking for nominations for:

Novice of the Year
Club Person of the Year
Crash of the Year
Romance of the Year
Coxing Call of the Year
Fashion Item of the Year

In addition to these awards, I am still keen for your titbits of gossip - especially anything that might be better saved until the night of the Ball... please send to:

gurt_lush_blog at hotmail dot co dot uk (yes, not .com)

Congrats!

The Lush is both pleased and proud to announce the recent engagement of long term club cornerstone, Brian Stephens, to his young lady, Nesta.
Apparently "Romeo" Stephens was not the one on bended knee... probably due to not being able to get past half slide since 1986! Many congratulations to you both.

Worcester Sauce

'Our' novice girlies have been keeping their recent victory at Worcester HORR quiet, or maybe they didn't know (after all, they did leave before their medals were given out)!

Mine's a double - with ice...

For all you complaining about the recent cold snap here:

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Sex on the beach....

After a successful day down on the docks running the regatta the club descended on Henry Africa's for a night on the cocktails....
Much fun was had by all - a slippery nipple (or 16?) for Steve from the LTR ladies 8, a round of sambucas for the 'engine room' of the first 8 and a flat liner for Stu after his hard work over the last few weeks... to name but a few .
After eventually being thrown out of the bar a small selection of people were ready to move on elsewhere. A certain red-faced young(ish) man thought his luck might in when an unknown lady decided she might like to go back to his place. Obligingly, he agreed and led her back to his lair....
Unfortunately the lush had to go home at that point, well as they say - two's company, three's a crowd!
The lush will be taking suggestions as to who this young lady might be... and to any other titbits of gossip (the lush has many ears, but can't be everywhere!)
Answers on a post card...

gurt_lush_blog at hotmail dot co dot uk

Would I lie to you?

I happened to overhear the Men's 1st VIII de-brief following their race on
Sunday, and it turns out their cox has been using a new form of encouragement - "honesty""
This quote was passed to me -
"Lock and drive, good, and lets go for the push for 20...
Good, that's taken 2 lengths out of the crew in front - I'm not sh*tting you, honestly!"

It obviously worked.