Downstream

thinking, well, I’m quite glad
it’s dark and I can’t see
what’s in the water, what’s
down there in the murky
depths. But it was quite silky,
with an occasional leaf
brushing past.’ As for health
risks, she says statistically
you’re as likely to pick up a
bug or a verruca from a pool.
However, she swam the
Thames with her face out of
the water, ‘although I spend
my professional life telling