He bribed us into swimming whoever swims first across the breadth of the bath I’ll give them half a crown.
Kathleen
I learnt to swim in Bramley Baths. I was like a fish when I was younger. My dad used to bring me and my sister every Saturday. He bribed us into swimming whoever swims first across the breadth of the bath I’ll give them half a crown.
Me being me went in, straight in swam to the other side, got the half a crown. My sister were a long time after me!
The beauty of being in a company of older performers is the kaleidoscopic range of real-life experiences that they bring to the table. These experiences cover everything from the vivid and strange world of childhood, to the unexpected late awakenings of old age. Take our newest batch of anecdotes, for example. These new stories are delightfully diverse: from the earthly, sensual joy of baking bread, to the cosmic dreams of outer space; from an unnerving encounter with a poltergeist, to the risqué glories of adult pleasure products and burlesque. Running as a rich theme throughout, is the possibility of love, and the simple wonder of human connection. As one writer tells us, in her story of funeral rites and flirting, “Amidst death, life goes on”, and indeed it does, delightfully so.