Downstream

tides and Alison had to move
to the sides, while on the
upstream swim ‘everything
was coming towards her, the
water was foul. I don’t even
want to talk about what was
in it. She was ill for six weeks
afterwards. Before the end
she was beginning to go a
funny bluish colour. But there
was a friend and her family
on a bridge and they yelled
and she saw them and that
seemed to do it, because she