PHOENIX TIME

We cannot guarantee that we will be able to paddle the advertised rivers or beaches as weather, tides, flooding (Storm Babet) and flooded roads and rivers (Storm Bert), spate, drought, no waves / 12 foot waves, snow covered roads, iced over rivers, pestilence (OK it was a tummy ache), Covid-19 (all variants), amusement arcades, traffic jams, diversions, sheep herding, road closed to erect Christmas decorations, motorway services, fish and chip shop queues, lost keys, locked rooms, satnav malfunctions, map reading, Remembrance Day Parade road closures, cars up to their axles in mud, missing tent poles / pegs / tents, lost paddles / boats / helmets / spray deck / boots/ cagoule / paddlers, late arrivals due to train / tube / bus / work / traffic jam / forgot trip was on / went to wrong airport, visits to A&E, unplanned major surgery, extended WC visit, slalom races, roof rack decay, etc. A few new ones turned up in India including exploding coach tyre, riverside cremations, landslides creating new rapids, leopards outside the loo tent, delhi belly, falling rocks, monkeys, snakes, border police checking travel papers every day, photo calls with every official and airport worker, moving 19 kayaks through airports, moving 35 people anywhere (cat herding), loading 19 kayaks onto very small truck, more delhi belly etc, are all beyond our reasonable control. All of the above can lead to alterations to the scheduled timings and in Club circles, this is referred to as “Phoenix Time”. “Phoenix Time + India Time” takes us to new limits! We will always attempt to make the best (and safest) resolution to a situation!