The day dawned with that wonderful wintery light, so young James and I thought we would spend the morning snapping. Unfortunately, owing to the inordinate amount of rain, the common is like a mud-bath. Reversing the Bongo, I caught the wheel on the grass and the more I tried to drive off, the more the wheelspin I got and the thing just slid back and back and back. The tow truck had to be called to pull it back onto the road and that was the morning gone.