Before arriving here I thought about writing the blog in the style of an American teen college movie – Whooa, dudes, let’s snarf a keg and get wasted back at the frathouse! – but realised the joke would run out of steam after, well, one blog.

However, I’m sorely tempted to degenerate into teen-sex dialogue after those two cheerleaders I saw wandering along the lakeside today. Yes, this British university has a cheerleading squad!

Whoooooa dudes, bring it on!