The girl in the blue coat looked about 6 or 7 years old, she never hesitated once, cycled through the deepest part and round the bend without stopping. That's a tough little girl.
Which tough little girl is the comment about.
Secondly,I live in Greater London and believe me it's a s...h..e.Aliens speaking in foreign tongues and gobbledigook everywhere you go.Its hard to find an Englishman anywhere these days.Take our bus garage fo example,Turks(both male and female),Greeks,Italians,Scottish,Irish,Chinese,Filipino,Pakistanis,Indians,Lebanese,Jamaicans,Nigerians,Mackams,Welsh,French,Caribbeans,only the very old,time served,Chiswick trained are English.East Europeans,Lithuanians,Poles,Czechs and Yugoslavs.
Exzim, the river here is about as clean as a river can be. There are Cormorants that live here catching fish all day long, also Grebes Ducks and Swans. For that many fish to live in a river it has to be very clean. It looks dirty because it is a fast flowing river and has sediment in almost permanent suspension.