PETER Sewell was just two weeks old when his mother Margaret brought him home from hospital.

She and husband Roy hardly had time to sort out his clothes when flood waters gushed into their flat in Coronation Road, Sheerness.

"Everything was ruined clothes, pram, crib, food everything," Margaret said "We were devastated. I had to be piggy-backed to safety, with Roy following on with anything at all that could be salvaged.

"What a homecoming." But even in disaster there was humour. "The funniest sight was of a tiny mouse sailing high and dry in a baby's potty."