Downstream

that pleasant but not so bad.’
Just as would later happen
at Henley and Maidenhead,
when Steve advertised a
Thames swim others joined
in. ‘I let the PLA and river
police know and they came
and watched. But we found it
was fraught with difficulties.
If you swim right on high tide
there is no current, but at low
tide there would be no water.
And you are crossing what I
call the shipping lane and that