River Thames, near Royal Windsor Racecourse, 29th August 2010

My own first for a while, having lived on unexpected generosity for weeks. This was not as far from home as the last, but a different world nonetheless - snapped departing a lock on a bank holiday weekend pootle down the river on an old schoolfriend's family's riverboat. We were heading back at this stage, having passed through the same lock far more sober and with a functional boat some hours previously. In the inter-lock time it broke down mid-stream while under my erratic and uncontrolled charge, and had to be towed from its ersatz mooring to a riverside willow to a real berth, before we could coax its hot engine home.

The sun shone on our lunch, our repairs and this photo. In between each, it poured cold and hard.