Stramongate Bridge

Today's the day ........................ to await the arrival

It started off as a rather quiet day - in every sense.

The weather was quiet. There was no wind to ruffle the surface, no colour and hardly any water in the River Kent as it flowed quietly down towards Morecambe Bay. There wasn't a lot to do either - all the preparations had been made - and we were just twiddling our thumbs, waiting for our three guests from Singapore to arrive.

It would take a lot of space to explain how we came to know them. Suffice to say that one of them, Jeanne, had come to our rescue when we were in Singapore earlier in the year, on our way home from New Zealand. She had turned our few days there into a wonderful experience - and we now had the chance to repay her kindness and to look after her, Edward and Roy at the start of their holiday in the UK.

And in due course, they did arrive - full of energy and excitement - and the day stopped being quiet .......................!