STARFISH

© usborne

Some swimming days, it has to be said, are better than others. Sometimes, I am slightly terrified of the horizontal position I have to assume in the water if I want to go anywhere. At others, I feel like a proper swimming person in that I am moving arms and legs and breathing and moving – until you see the telltale stick of bendy foam under my chest. However, with the aid of analogies like bunnies, frogs, starfish and dolphins, I’m getting there, slowly.