Mill Pond

Doodled whilst waiting for lunch. I have drawn from this self same spot before on the balcony bench at The Granta Pub in Cambridge.

The building opposite is the Old Water Mill, now Bella Itaila. I remember at one point it was a Sweeny Todd resteraunt.

Nowadays you can hire punts and canoes launching out from this pond from Granta Punt Hire Company

As a teenager we would punt under the building, look up and wave at customers eating their meal at a glass centered table. They would get quite a surprise! Last week I took my daughter on a punt on the Mill Pond, we tried this again and were rewarded by children waving excitedly down at the punt below.

NOT to be tried if you don't like being in a dark damp hole with spiders swinging around on their webs!

Mill Pond, Cambridge

I am sat in the Granta Pub on the Mill Pond sheltering from the rain - enjoying a pint. I have just drawn the view from my stool.

Sweeny Todd of course has not been there for 20 years, or maybe longer, that is where I went for my Stag Night feast, hmm - 28 years ago.

I have missed out the large fleet of punts which are moored and drifting into the center of the pond, seemingly more a storage yard!

Today it is raining, but there seems to be an ever increasing need to include punting come rain or sunshine whilst visiting Cambridge.

Several punts have set off since I sat down, a most interesting increase in punting backwards and/or from inside the craft. In Cambridge of course, one punts from the platform on the back!