-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Simpson - Email Address: chrisnash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent On: 30/01/2009 15:12 Sent To: Chat - Email Address: guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: sinking When I was about nineteen, and full of bravado, we were having a family picnic at a local beauty spot where there was a wide fast flowing river, and I had swam across several times and was playing to the gallery which was made up of quite a few pretty girls, so I decided to really impress them and swim across with my young nephew on my back, which my big brother had done with me years ago,so I dived in and promptly sank like a stone,owing to the fact that I was not as good as I thought I was and my nephew was a bit of a Billy bunter, luckily for us my cargo had the sense to cling on and hold his breath, and there were several strong swimmers watching so we were rescued, but after a scare like that it was an end to my showing off, Chris Cringle