Rocking all over the cut

摘要

If you were looking for a mooring near Cropredy this year in mid-August you would have been hard-put to find one near the village - boats stretched for some two miles from below Slat Mill lock up through Cropredy as far as Elkington's Lock.rnThe giveaway for the mass attraction was the bunting stretching along the Oxford and the sound of folk and rock music echoing across the fields down to the canal. That, and the thousands of festival-goers and boaters who were milling good-humouredly up and down the towpath wearing silly hats and big smiles.