As a child, our family holidays were always spent at the seaside, usually in the north of Scotland. I always wanted to be able to swim but for various reasons never learned.
As an adult, I finally decided to take swimming lessons and really enjoyed them. The teacher was in the pool with me, and this gave me confidence. Soon I was able to swim a breadth. The next step was to swim a length!
Starting from the shallow end one day, I was managing quite well until I realized I was out of my depth. The teacher was swimming beside me, but as she was between me and the side of the pool, I couldn’t hold on to the side.
