Great stuff TRC!
One would think, with the litany of events encountered (seemingly one after the other) that Twyford's name must have been mud with the Met!
So .. how did you prevent yourself from sinking
into the mud as you squelched around 'XD' and how, in the end, was the craft recovered from the river?
Were you at Battersea when Jock Cameron inadvertently inflated the pop-outs on his 206 runabout (G-AWGU) requiring him to plod along on his journey back to Gatters (LGW) at a paltry 80kts (or whatever it was)?