midday
`` But who cares ? We have plenty of time . '' All were hungry for a taste of roast duck , and so they stopped off long enough to cook a fine dinner . For dessert they had some blackberries which they chanced to find growing near the watercourse , and they stopped so long over their midday meal that it was after two o'clock before the journey was resumed . `` Do you remember the awful windstorm we once struck up here ? '' queried Shep , as they rowed along . `` Will we ever forget it , '' cried Whopper .