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My grandson's getting into the rugby: 'Which one's West Ham?'

It was all a very long way from E.M. Forster and Mastermind

14 February 2015

9:00 AM

14 February 2015

9:00 AM

My grandson and I had a lovely hour-long swim at the leisure centre. We had the learner pool to ourselves for the first half an hour, during which we threw and dived for our little weighted plastic sharks. Then a stocky man, tattooed like a Maori, and his little boy entered the pool.

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