Downstream

you’re doing a Walliams?”
We used to bet how many
people would say that every
day. So the shock factor of
doing the Thames has gone,
except that I was female.’ I
ask why, if people were so
fascinated at seeing her, she
had no media coverage. ‘With
my previous journeys there
had been lots of coverage,’
she explains, ‘and it’s easy to
get bogged down with
organising and contacting