Roaring Meg

We more than survived the rafting - it was really good fun........once I'd established that the rope was there and I'd checked it out for it's capacity to hold me. That's Pete reassuring me, Meg in disguise and Finn happy because he's not cold yet.

Meg tortured us all by not wanting to come and going through every ruse to avoid it, before I resorted to bribery. She probably enjoyed it the most.......minx! It was the club night, so the river was full of pretty skilful and adventurous Kayakers. Some as young as 11/12 and very adept. We came through the Roaring Meg, which was very poignant as that was exactly what our Meg had been doing earlier. Meg says she is keen to give kayaking another go. Pete says they have the boats in the pool in winter and will let Meg know (his partner is Meg's PE teacher). He says he used to play Canoe Polo with a guy called Calum Anderson from Fort William when he was about 17, so would someone ask Calum if he remembers a Pete Simpson. Very resourceful - runs his jeep on old chip pan oil thrown out from restaurants. Smells like his dinners cooking when he drives past!

Very tired children when we got home.