Impasse

Joseph  had gone off to his friends so Mrs BB & I decided to walk along the river to the marina cafe for lunch, forgetting that it was midday high water and a strong southerly had been blowing for a few days.

The river path was completely flooded as was the dinghy park at Swanwick hard.

Fortunately we have more than one marina with cafes and this one, although close to flooding was still open(sand bags were at the ready.

Over at Lands End Road water levels were getting very close to spoiling the day. When I was a teenager my mum went mad when I tried to bring a motorbike into the kitchen (it was the middle of freezing cold winter), she would definitely wouldn't have been happy with a steam boat  floating around the larder.