Downstream

swim every morning’. But at
once things begin to go
wrong: the river is full of
inept city boaters, parties of
provincial ’Arrys and
’Arriets, just like themselves.
While the plan is to get up
early and ‘fling off our rugs
and shawls’ and ‘spring into
the river with a joyous shout,
and revel in a long delicious
swim’, once morning dawns
the notion is less tempting.
Still, their intention is to head