THE SWIMMING POOL

Every day in 385 Joo chat Place was a new day. I settles very quickly in my new home and made friends very easily. I think the reason for that is, we were all different in our own way. Chinese, Malaysian, Indian, English. Everyone was busy,busy, I loved the day to day life, going to the swimming pool was a frequent occurrence, that's where all us army sprogs met up ... the coca cola machine was well used, that's when we had real glass bottles with green tint running through the thick bits of the glass. coca cola tasted better then I think..... memories! Swimming there was great ...I had taught myself to swim. I found that if I held my breath and swam under the water first and pretended that I Was a dolphin and so then I wasn't afraid because dolphins aren't afraid. Soon I could dive in and retrieve stones and things at the bottom of the pool ,easily holding my breath for ages, in fact that was the fun part , hold breath for a minute....then see if I could hold it for longer, and I did, what, freedom . I was a dolphin for a long time. The last time I tried that, was a few years ago and at first I thought it was brilliant and I swam on my back under the water then played dead man floating, then without taking a new breath dove under for the length of the pool, aren't I great I thought ...still have it in me. ..........Got an ear infection the next day, couldn't stand up, was so dizzy kept falling over and ended up in out patients at the hospital Mmmmmm! best not to do that again.