Aquaventures

My neighbour’s trampoline is clearly sick of being the nail, not the hammer, and has just vaulted 2 fences and back-flipped into a shed.

- Finn Mullen

Our garden looks like it has been landscaped by a bulldozer and we’re down a paddling pool. It’s windy, and whatever isn’t tied down is being tied down. The beach is calling and I answer in hot pursuit of an £8.99 inflatable pool, last seen heading downwind. Engine on, radio on, mission on. The DJ talks excitedly about some celebrity, radio off, iPod on – AC/DC, ‘Back in black’ – “Yes, I’m let loose from the noose, that’s kept me hanging about I’m just looking at the sky ‘cause it’s getting me high, forget the hearse, ‘cause I’ll never die I got nine lives, cat’s eyes, abusing every one of them and running wild.”