Seeing a couple on a boat trip up the river Dart from Dartmouth to Totnes I encountered a certain body language which indicated they were not just mother and son as one might think on first sighting - but very much lovers.
The guy was possibly in his early twenties but the woman maybe in her late thirties so one could easily put the toy boy romance tag on her.
I can see what the young guy saw in her, she was no glamour puss as such, just the ordinary girl next door sort of woman who was dressed in a smart tight knee length wool dress that really complimented her pencil slim figure, her smile which I caught when stepping onto the boat was warm and nice and she looked so happy and contented. She struck me that she was in her element, looking up at the tall figure of her young companion with the eyes saying everything, certainly that she was not a mother but a lover.
And it was the way the guy looked at her too, the touch of his fingers strolling her thigh as he whispered something that was probably saying he loved her.
Romance was in the air, it was a perfect late spring day and the river was calm and soothing to the soul.
With my memories running away with me I was reminded how it was just a few years back when I was a toy boy for a woman who oddly looked very much like the one eon the boat. She has moved on now, or rather I have, I guess what I thought at the time to be the most beautiful thing in the world couldn't last maybe because of the age gap.
But we left on good terms, Janice even thanked me for being so sweet and said it was right for me to find someone my own age, that she loved me that much she was willing to sacrifice me. For a younger model, which to date I still have not found - because I tend to compare a possible pairing with Janice and she was certainly a hard act to follow.
Just her kiss every time we met was magic and the feel of her in my arms - she wanting my all and always so calm and soothing, the smell of her perfume from Argos and the deep and intimate privacy we shared in the confines of her beautifully designed bedroom, smelling of flowers and endearing things upon her dressing table, scents and perfumes and all feminine, and her favourite oils which she rubbed into my muscles many times and more.
I remember the first time we bedded, me the shy young guy who hade never been with a woman before, and she adored that idea, said she was so thrilled with the idea of teaching me.
She was so lovely and perhaps I saw some of my mother's warmth in her I don't know, but whatever it was I felt completely submerged in her loving and it all seemed so very right and natural, because I guess she made it that way, I never felt awkward or embarrass that she was that much older then me and she always expressed it wasn't the age that matters but who and what you are.
She was frank, told me of a very dramatic and hurtful divorce after being married for seven years. That was two years back she said and admitted one of the things she really missed was the warmth and touch of a guy next her. That she had always been attracted by the younger guy, especially someone like me because I had a happy disposition, a great attitude and was very sexy and attractive to her.
She laughed that when she first saw me she knew right away she wanted me, she said she wanted to rip the pants off me and just sink into my being like already we had been lovers.
I had never imagined myself to be attracted to the opposite sex, not until I met Janice, but she tells me that is because I never notice how girls look at me, and I guess that's true and Janice is helping me to build confidence in myself in many ways.
When we first went out together, before we bedded or anything like that, we set off on a day cruise off the Devon shore and just sat on deck basking in the sun.
It was quite hot and Janice removed her over -skirt and I realised just how good she looked in a bikini style outfit, she had a figure that many women would die for I reckoned and that was very evident, in noticing how some obese female looked at her in a very enviable way.