I’ve always swum. Well, actually that’s not quite true — I’ve always liked being in the water and for someone who grew up in Margate, I learned to swim quite late.
Even when I couldn’t swim I was more than happy to play in the slipways at full tide, being dragged up and down the ramp by the crashing waves. It was competitive to see how much blood would be pouring from our scrapes and cuts by the end of the day as the sun set and the tide turned and made its way out.
