Downstream

explaining there were no
fixtures arranged for the
current year and no handbook
had been published. And
while I know what’s coming,
it’s still a shock as I come to
the club’s report for the
spring of that year. It makes
bleak reading: gone is the
usual page-long account of
successes in swimming and
water polo; instead there is a
list of members who have
joined His Majesty’s Forces –