Downstream

the river to learn to swim, a
basic skill that everyone
needed to know, but
according to the media today
it’s a dangerous pursuit. ‘The
deadly lure of deep water
during sunny spells has once
again proved fatal,’ reported
the Oxford Times in 2000,
following ‘a long list of
tragedies’. Youngsters are
told ‘not to indulge in the
dangerous “sport” of jumping
into the water from river