Changes

They seemed more like characters out of Peter Pan than octogenarians who were worried about aging. I borrowed a bathing costume and dove into the water to join in and it hit me - these women here in England were so much like my mother it was as if they were cut from the same cloth. As I walked away from my first swim at the Ladies Pond, I smiled and shook my head looking up to the sun in the cloudy sky, I felt my mother was with me that day - ''You've given me a story Mum, and now I'm going to have to write it''.