Really Awfully Bad and Good Gala Performances

Ready for freestyle (R swimming in distinctive bright pink vest)

R approaching the wall for a win.

Breaststroke start

Breaststroke spurt

Breaststroke finish

 

 

 

Backstroke start

Backstroke finish

Butterfly start

 

 

 

 

 

 

Butterfly in progress

Butterfly finish

Seems my swimming days are past:

Swam in gala, and came last!

No surprise to anyone –

First that I have ever done!!

Plus, young R, upon my back,

Did a certain slightness lack

(J, much smaller, was unwell,

Or a different tale I’d tell?)

Though of parents I was worst,

Grandpas? Only me; thus first!

R herself, though, did much more:

Second and three firsts her score –

Freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly;

Only backstroke let one by!

A few days before, there was a Gala at Durban Preparatory High School with quite a few teams visiting.  R’s school didn’t do too well, but at least she swam freestyle in a ladder relay which achieved a second.  Amusing that the Egyptian geese act as spectators at this school pool as well as those featured at R’s school!

‘Their feet don’t work too well, do they?’

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