It was so calm and peaceful down by the river this morning. As per usual on shopping Saturdays, we pulled into the Passage House Inn car park for a bit of blog reading (to my mum) by the Teign River. The tide was in and the river was right up to the top of the banks on either side; a family of hippos going for a swim would have burst the banks and flooded the car park. Luckily, there were no hippos, just the regular wild birds that live amongst the reeds and the same bevy of swans (if you can call a penn and her growing cygnets a bevy!).

The sun hid behind the clouds and a grey mist levitated above the river, making the tranquil scene quite magical. Then it rained.