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Wednesday Sep 26, 2007

Pretty in pink

During the summer months my son Callum has not attended swimming at all. He has had an extremely busy social life. This week was our first proper week back!

As soon as I arrived at the pool I was accosted by the volunteer in the baby pool. The other person who usually works with her was on holiday. It was a full group as they had just recently recruited some new swimmers.

With my bare feet and rolled up jeans I went to join them. The group were casually swimming up and down with their floats and I was assigned half of them. When they realised it was someone new to them all the little tricks came out, "miss my toe hurts", "miss my goggles hurt", "miss, can I go to the toilet, miss." They started slowing down and I saw lots of little blue lips and shivering bodies. It was very hard trying to keep a straight face and keep them motivated.

The group were then asked to put their floats up. My half unfortunately at this point started lacking in confidence. "I cant do that", "I can't swim!" They kept with their floats and amazingly at play time suddenly dropped them like hot cakes. How unusual!?

At the end of the session one of the girls in the group noticed my toenails which are currently painted fuschia pink. I had earlier in the evening witnessed her mother telling her that "no, she could not have the pink goggles" "she didn't care if it waas her favourite colour." I asked her if she liked my nails and she beamed at me and nodded. Maybe next session I will bring the polish along with me.

Posted by Louise ( 7:52 AM )
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