Day 3

I found it easier going today - I had decided yesterday what picture I would use, as it was a continuation of yesterday's memories of the National Botanical Gardens of Wales. When we visited in 2003 everything was still very new, and I would like to return one day to see how it has grown.

The photograph of the lake linked in very nicely with my thoughts on my son's current ambition. He wants to swim down the Thames! No, he doesn't intend dodging the pleasure cruisers outside the Houses of Parliament, but the part of the Thames that runs through beautiful Gloucestershire countryside.

He is allergic to the chlorine in swimming pools so trains in a mere [meres are small lakes in hollows created by glacial action] in Cheshire.