Puffin swimming awards

Compo · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:58 am

anyone remember them? I did mine in rossy baths with that crazy old women who taught the kids to swim.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:14 am

Compo wrote:

anyone remember them? I did mine in rossy baths with that crazy old women who taught the kids to swim.

feckin hell. My mum and dad used to force me to go there on a saturday evening around 1985 when I was a nipper. I absolutely HATED it. The old woman was a complete bitch as far as i can remember and I was terrified of her. Im sure I dislike swimming to this day because of Rossy baths.

I remember getting a sticker with a puffin on it afterwards. Was it a puffin or a penguin

Compo · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:38 am

Grave wrote:

Compo wrote:

anyone remember them? I did mine in rossy baths with that crazy old women who taught the kids to swim.

feckin hell. My mum and dad used to force me to go there on a saturday evening around 1985 when I was a nipper. I absolutely HATED it. The old woman was a complete bitch as far as i can remember and I was terrified of her. Im sure I dislike swimming to this day because of Rossy baths.

I remember getting a sticker with a puffin on it afterwards. Was it a puffin or a penguin

I think it was a puffin, I went there about 86-87 so probably the same women, there was also a very shifty man there if memory serves me right. But the women was like a tin-pot hilter with daggers behind her glasses and behive hair cut.

I am glad I could swim well as the kids who used to float like a stone she used to follow with a big stick incase the needed help.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

I used to go to the one at king oswy baths, also hated the women there too, i'm with grave on this, my whole first experience of water was awful because of this women and it's probs effected my swimming ever since.

Bitches, hate them!

Compo · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:16 pm

found this, apparently they are called rainbow awards now:

http://www.awards.sportcentric.com/vsit ... em,00.html

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:50 pm

Betty Sands taught me at Rossmere.

Again, no puffing things, just the 10m, 25m, 50m, 100m etc up to a mile (I'm younger than Mr Elvis :wink:

).

The mile was over a hundred lengths I seem to recall.

Compo · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:00 pm

I did my mile one but sure I did more lengths as I lost count half way through

Spender · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:02 pm

Grave wrote:

Was it a puffin or a penguin

Mate, I'm almost sure in your case it would be a puffin. :grin:

Even if everyone else was getting a penguin....... :wink:

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:08 pm

Spender wrote:

Grave wrote:

Was it a puffin or a penguin

Mate, I'm almost sure in your case it would be a puffin. :grin:

Even if everyone else was getting a penguin....... :wink:

Mampi Swift · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:37 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

Betty Sands??

She's had more lengths that Duncan Goodhew!

Chortle

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:34 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

Betty Sands??

When I were a lad, there was none of this Puffin/Rainbow crap.

You did your 25 yards.

Then your 50 yards.

Then 100, 200 and 400 yards.

Then your Half-Mile and Mile.

For each one you got a Swimming Certificate and a little sew-on rectangular badge for your trunks!

The mile was summat ludicrous like 48 lengths of the baths!

Unless my mind is going, Betty Sands wasn't a bitch

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