As we set off on the walk this morning we were alerted to a swan and her mate and a brood of tiny grey cygnets nestling by the river bank.

Passing through Hemingford Grey we gazed at a glorious house and garden once lived in by the childrens’ author, Lucy Boston ( The Green Knowe books). The house is an ancient Norman Manor built in 1130 and reputed to be one of the oldest inhabited houses in the British Isles.

Further along the route we came upon a telephone box that has become a tiny library (a good idea for our Gables phone box).

In St Ives we crossed the ancient stone bridge and, as we sat drinking tea in the delightful Riverside Cafe, we waved at passengers on passing canal boats.