Downstream

meant you could get in. We
did it to cool off and we
weren’t the only ones, there
were people sunbathing,
people with kids . . . I
remember mum was always
careful, she’d say “don’t go
too far”, but there was a low
current. I can’t say it was
pleasant but it was cool. It
was dirty, but not polluted.
There was boat oil, and
people cut their feet on
broken bottles, but it was