After a day of sitting around indoors, due to the pissing rain, cooking and eating, I took advantage of a gap in the rain to nip out this evening.
Roads very wet, my ditches runneth over. Got wet feet pedalling through a small flood near Southwater. Some time later, I'm whizzing down a lane and get overtaken by one of those trucks with a cage on the back, the sort that tree surgeons use. I pay it no heed. A few hundred metres on, he's stopped in the middle of the road, hazards on. In front of him is a swath of the River Arun, which normally crosses the road by going under a bridge but today was going over the road, covering quite a lot and quite deep.
I thought the driver was just weighing up his options, as was I (There's a bridleway a short way back, but I didn't fancy it much) . No, he'd seen me and was waiting. We put the bike in the cage and proceeded gingerly to the other side. What a Top Bloke.
That warmed my heart 
did you mean the Adur or was it another lane?
Warmed my feet too! Definitely the Arun, as I was going down Kerves Lane.
always better than going
up! I avoided it on my ECE to Maresfield last Friday
