Battleship Bob is doing a very fine job indeed! He's allowing the family to have an undisturbed morning of doing whatever swans do. He then has a fine "compound" near where his boat is normally moored and the family will be encouraged to spend time there during the danger period (given that boats often crash into other boats or the bank, sometimes with human injuries, racing isn't the safest thing for swans). They looked as if they were practicing last night and looked very happy indeed. My sources tell me this was the agreed solution at a meeting with the rowers - the swans have exclusive use of the river in the morning during Bumps, and then are installed in safer pleasant accomodation so the rowers can have exclusive use during the actual races. Sadly it looks as if some of the eggs didn't hatch - I thought I could only see three cygnets. Heather On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Andi Everitt wrote: > On an unrelated note did anyone else cycling/walking down the river this > morning see the grey boat moored accross the river (clearly designed to > block access for rowers) around Fen Ditton - I suspect it is related to > this: > www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Swan-will-be-moved-over-my-dead-body.htm > > cheers, > Andi