Downstream

there was no point calling the
police. Anyway, I had the
strongest of hunches you’d be
OK.’ It was then that
Matthew realised
navigational tables are in
GMT. He’d got the time
wrong; high tide was an hour
later than he’d thought. Yet
he was overjoyed that he’d
done what he’d set out to do
and, as for any effect on his
health, ‘I did swallow a lot of
water and it tasted slightly