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...Eventually, as we’re nearing the end of our lesson, Mardollo suggests I take my fins off, and try descending feet first....
...This is where the lesson in marine anatomy comes in: like many dolphins, Freddie used his penis to “hook” his human swimming companions....
...I arrived seeking exhilaration – a swim with sharks – which, I suppose, I had. But what has stuck with me is the importance of conservation, and how it touches every aspect of what I saw and did....
...There are lessons we learn, then we progress. I’m not really one for regrets. “The Fifth Chapter” by Beverley Knight is out now on Tag8/BMC....
...“Life Lessons” by Jay Blades is published by Bluebird Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Details will revolve around giving children in camps sports lessons. “When I got to Germany, the first thing I did was swim. That was the only thing that felt like home,” she says....
...Based on a photograph of the artist and his daughter, the image shows a father waist-deep in a river teaching his young child how to swim....
...The lesson, I think, isn’t that we need pack our days with new experiences, forcing ourselves to swim continually into unfamiliar waters....
...As the world started opening up again, I was determined to remember the lesson....
...Food follows Home and The Object Lesson, two similarly innovative works that expanded on the everyday to embrace profound questions about life....
...I learnt to swim there (the lifeguards gave lessons). I mastered the complex strokes and dives....
...Swim at your own risk”. The kids only seem to remember the lols and the toasted marshmallows. They’re resilient. And they have to be....
...When I turned 50 last year I vowed that I would take lessons, and I did. I’m still taking them. Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...But where Nolan really excels is in the delineation of complex, sometimes contradictory interior states: the water we all swim in and call “reality” but which few of us ever learn to interrogate or describe...
...Swimming lessons and coaching for all levels are available to book....
...Nasa is studying the way a stingray swims to design a planetary exploration module for the extreme weather of Venus....
...As the saying goes — popularised by the writer David Foster Wallace — fish don’t see the water they swim in 🐟....
...As a child, she had excelled in those ballet lessons. Now she rediscovered performance. An acting career was pursued in her twenties. Another catch: acting didn’t take....
...The sad truth is that we spend more time teaching children how to swim than to manage money....
...There was no need to insist: social media and the internet were the seas in which “a group of hungry kids excited at the opportunity to compete with their pompous elders” wanted to swim....
...To sharpen my appetite, I elected to go for a swim in the Arkaig: it was bracingly but not brutally cold, and deep enough to luxuriate in, thrashing my limbs against nothing but peaty water....
...I knew, from my own life, that this lesson is as likely to yield a desire to spurn the world as to reshape it....
...I didn’t take a life lesson . . . But reading Tolstoy had a religious feeling and I was a pretty serious Catholic kid.”...
...If not offering a lesson that the world doesn’t revolve around you, then perhaps at least that it doesn’t revolve around the rigid routines of work and home that can define a life....
...And I think that to me is the big lesson from what you’ve done. And it does raise a general question, which is about ageism....
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