Around the end of the previous winter, a friend of mine in Wandsworth began discussing swimming lessons in the same…
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On a weekday afternoon silence descends upon a public pool there are whistles, the sporadic shriek, and the sound of…
A certain type of British summer afternoon culminates in someone getting drenched on a grassy bank with a towel draped…
In a British backyard, there’s a certain sound that heralds summer and it’s not birdsong. It’s the slow groan of…
Every weekday I keep seeing this scene in suburban driveways and apartment lobbies: parents looking at the time, children half…
At six in the morning, there’s a certain quiet inside a public pool. The lifeguard drinks coffee from a paper…
On a Saturday morning, you can see them if you stroll by any community pool. Bright pink and electric blue…
There is a certain time in almost every public pool in the country, usually around 7 a.m. on a weekday.…
The custom is familiar to anyone who learned to swim prior to the late 1990s. For the remainder of the…
It’s always the first warm weekend of the year. You can see them if you drive through nearly any suburban…