You never know, while we’re on the waiting list we might go the whole hog and actually inflate their paddling pool. So I look forward to reporting back about our swimming successes as I teach the kids to swim. (Not enjoyable because he always looks about 12 to me). I have Celine Dion’s “My heart will go on” playing in my head, together with an image of Leonardo Di Caprio. Whenever I swim, I stick to a regal breaststroke and the distance I swim is calculated on the likely distance I’d have to swim to a lifeboat, should I be on a sinking cruise ship. I recruited a lot of top talent from that. I have nothing but admiration for those brave souls who cover themselves in goose fat and swim the Channel like an aquatic oven ready roast potato. A competitor of mine had a brutal sink or swim attitude about their new hires, feeling that only strong employees would last the first 90 days. I just remember the water being freezing and having to spend the rest of the school day soggy, tired and extra hungry.

I was lucky enough to attend a comprehensive school which had its own swimming pool and remember the joy of having to stuff a large ponytail into a swimming cap. Because every swimmer is underwater at least 2 times consecutively, and swimmers can’t go from being out of the pool to underwater directly, Swimmers 2 and 4 only have a few options of when they. It’s hard to be a swimming superstar if your swimming style has to encompass keeping your contact lenses in and, more importantly, keeping your hair dry. Step 1: Combining clues from A1, E2, and B4 we can figure out what B2 and E4 are. I’m so short-sighted the last time I went on my own, I walked into a caretaker’s cupboard and tried to dive into a mop bucket and now, with my dodgy hearing, I fear becoming a kind of water-logged Helen Keller.

Pool time sink and swim