1st, 2nd and 3rd: early Christmas family gathering in Wargrave followed by Auntie Kathleen’s funeral in New Brighton. New and old generations, parents mistaken for grandparents, no longer living relatives present in the faces of grandchildren. The Thames filling its valley, overflowing; changing parks, fields and cricket ground to reflected sky, the Mersey vibrant and forceful rushing between the wirral and the city. Both rivers flowing as they have been across all those years.