Where had  I left my coat, blue shoulder bag, and best jewellery? I thought that I had checked all the possible places on the Queen Margaret campus in Corstorphine. Little D (M’s sister), who had also misplaced her belongings, joined the hunt. We eventually found everything on a coat rack on the lower ground floor.

The next challenge was to safely cross the river, with all my belongings, on a rising tide. TPR swam over to help me. I wore my coat and shoulder bag, and carried most of the jewellery on my person, stuffing the rest into the pockets of TPR’s Barbour jacket.

We had to hurry because the warden wanted us off the premises by 4pm.