Its taken a few days but I’ve carried out the new year resolution to go swimming… down at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre. Its a recent addition to Abingdon, built about three years ago off Audlett Drive. We used to swim at the Old Gaol which now stands boarded up waiting for a new use.

An adult swim at the leisure centre costs £2.80. Lockers are 20p but you get that back afterwards. There is a little spin drier for your swim wear. Put your trunks into the little drum, hold down the lid… vroooooom…and they are dry in ten seconds. And there are little robots that go about on the pool floor cleaning the water after hours.