Thursday 28th October

 Since there was no reason to race to the river (height almost 2 m above normal) we were up at about nine.

Yesterday the wader test had a favourable result, no leakage for the first time since I arrived here.

And today another two waders were repaired, a pair of  Mike's breathable waders were treated with glue and a few patches and Franca's neoprenes were glued.

It is raining heavily in these parts of Scotland and there were flood warnings issued. The gauging station at Hawick showed a height in the red part of the graph. They are getting nervous there.

Some of us had poached eggs for lunch.

And now some serious water.

After a thorough inspection of the river we headed for Sainsbury's and amongst the goods we extracted from the reasonably filled shelves we had hand stretched sourdough pizza! We could not find banana shallots and we forgot the olive oil.