> # Back at school

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> Posted by Jamie on June 08, 2018 at 14:53:47

> Last week and until Wednesday this week was half-term holiday at our old school where Kevin's younger brother Kayne, is now a pupil - and doing rather well by all reports - and on Monday afternoon we went back to the school to watch Kayne take part in the inter-house swimming gala that is held every year. Kayne got into his junior house team for the relay and the butterfly. He is a good swimmer now and totally fearless. The school also has a competition for the school senior swim team against a team made up of recent under-21 leavers. We got a call over the weekend asking if we would be members of that team as the captain was having problems finding volunteers. He was so desperate that he even said he'd take me after I had reminded him about losing most of one leg...... "No problem, mate, you can still swim, can't you?"...... so we took the day off work and went along and joined everyone for lunch before the competition started. It was nice to see all the old masters and many students that we had known from the years below us and meet a few old friends from the year ahead of us.

> It seemed strange to be in the changing rooms again with a load of youngsters and contemporaries milling around. We had been told to bring our swimming trunks from our school days if possible as they were in what had been our house colours, but inevitably they were a bit too tight and ill-fitting to be decent in public - who knew we'd put on a few inches around the waist after doing manual labour and working physically for a year? very unfair - so we wore our more comfortable black trunks. When I swim these days I wear my most basic prosthetic which is almost solid from fixing to foot with just a slight flex at the knee rather than a fully-operational joint. It is waterproof (obviously) and a similar weight to the real thing so doesn't make that much difference to how I swim now to what I was like before the amputation.

> Our team did quite well in the competition and beat the school team in the 4x100m relay as well as the free-style 100m. We were beaten in the other two races. After the serious stuff we were challenged to a series of races with some of the younger students. We didn't know that this was going to happen so we were completely unprepared, and surprised, when our captain said to us all "Come on, guys, of course we'll do it - we'll beat them hollow." only to be informed that we would have to swim fully clothed whilst our opponents would be still wearing just trunks. Our captain's face fell at that point but the rest of us promptly reminded him of what he had said beforehand.

> So we all went and got dressed again. I had worn navy chinos and a short-sleeved blue and white check shirt, blue socks and leather deck shoes. Chris was in tan chinos and a short-sleeved orange shirt and leather deck shoes. At least we didn't have to wear the shoes. Our team captain, Robert, was in very expensive looking grey linen trousers, a grey and white check shirt by Lacoste and grey suede shoes. He complained loudly that it was all far too expensive to get wet, so whilst he complained the rest of us hustled him under a shower and got him drenched before we headed out to the pool again. Most of us had got pretty much soaked whilst man-handling Robert under the shower so we made a grand entrance by diving into the pool before clambering out again to begin the challenge. That got a cheer from the spectators and much laughter as well as we stood there dripping wet and waited to be told what was next.

> We stayed wet pretty much for the rest of the afternoon as we competed against various teams of students at a range of silly races. We did a relay in teams of four doing a length of the pool each against the under-14s team - we lost 3 pairs to one.

> We had a race across the pool over inflated obstacles including running along floating tubes, climbing up and sliding down an a frame slide, running across a series of floating platforms and so on which involved a lot of falling in and going back to the start again - we won that against the under-16s and the senior team and lost against the under-14s.

> Chris and I represented our team in the diving and Chris won against all his opponents. I beat the seniors and the under-14s and lost against the other two.

> It was all done as a knock-out competition and overall our team of old-boys came equal second, along with the under-16s, to the Seniors. They celebrated by pushing us all back into the pool yet again. We did manage to take a few of them with us but it wasn't as satisfying as it would have been had they been fully dressed like us, but it gave them a laugh anyway.

> We finished the day by getting out of our wet clothes and into our dry underwear and borrowed tracksuits to drive home. It was a good laugh and I shall look forward to seeing some of the photos that a few masters were taking in due course.

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