> > Though punting on the
> > foetid 'canals' of Manchester would be interesting for a brief
> > Boddingtons moment...]
>re-reading that: you don't imagine that the Cam is non-foetid, do
>you? There's a specific form of food-poisoning called "Cam fever"
>that you get by accidentally drinking the water. Or there used to
>be, anyway (suddenly remembering that that was a while ago).
The Isis* is similarly bad.
--Peter Metcalfe
*What the people of Oxford call the Thames. Which makes me wonder why Morse didn't introduce himself as being from the Isis Valley Police...
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