Christopher Smith
MY SWIM STORY
I couldn’t swim as either a child or an adult. My father took me to the pool when I was three years old, and the next time I went into the water was 45 years later. I’d had a fear of water for most of my life, and avoided swimming lessons as school, because I was told that the teachers threw you in at the deep end. I don’t know how true that was because miraculously whenever we had swimming lessons I’d suddenly not feel very well, or my ankle would hurt, or I’d have forgotten my swimming trunks! After a few months the teachers gave up and I’d sit in the changing rooms reading.