It would have been my Dad's birthday today. Thinking about him has put me in a reflective mood. Even when people we love are no longer with us their character and the love they showed us live on in our lives. Dad loved the river and spent much of his childhood canoeing along the rivers outside Norwich. When I was a child I remember many happy Sunday mornings with him in our two man kayak paddling slowly along. Travelling by canoe, under your own muscle power is a wonderful wa