Choir Tour - Parents View Oxford

Half the UK (and France) seemed  to be in Oxford on the weekend, and those not shopping were on the road to Blenheim Palace. Unfortunately this meant the bus turned back after a couple of hours battling the traffic and the boys missed the tour and maze.  On the positive side the weather was fantastic and summer in full swing.
 
The Dean of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford held a reception for the tour party after the Friday service, so Ladies, Men and boys all dressed up for the occasion. 
 
The reception was held in the Dean's Garden which has a bit of history, and my translation of the story he told the boys is:
 
A previous Dean had a daughter called Alice who could see into the neighbour's garden from her upstairs bedroom. Of course that garden looked more interesting than her own, and she used to try and gain access via a (small) door in the wall between the gardens.  Lewis Caroll was a friend of the Dean, and this was the inspriation for Alice in Wonderland, which he apparently wrote sitting in the garden.  
 
The boys then (unsuccessfully) searched the garden for the College's missing tortoise which had just come last in the inter college tortoise race - which according to the dean this is the correct position for a tortoise to come in a race.
 
Chris D