Swimming seems to have had no adverse effects, so I go for another one – this time shorter, with some harder efforts. I start checking out the 400m, 100m and 50m times achieved by women at the local swimming club…

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Somewhere in my brain a very clever mechanism has realised focusing on swimming might well be a good way of staying sane – the easily influenced other part of my brain is now wondering if maybe I should switch my attention to swimming for the time being?

Lunch with the Mothership (my mum) means the afternoon goes by in a whirl of cream tea and catch up time.