I’m so glad we met through diving!

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My partner and I met twenty years ago through the SCUBA-diving club, and we spent a lot of our early years diving around the UK (as well as a few trips overseas). While diving in some tropical resort can mean just stepping off a boat in a thin wetsuit, with someone else to sort out all the kit and take you to the good sites, diving in the UK generally means carting all your own stuff about, often driving your own boat, and dealing with weather which may be cold and wet. So when we first met we were both generally dressed up in bulky diving suits topped off with thick gloves and ridiculous woolly hats – or else the après-dive wear of big warm jumpers and coats (with gloves and woolly hats) in cold weather, or leggings and salt-stained T-shirts in summer. So now that we are having temperatures of -8°C (17F) and I’m dressed up in four layers of tops and jumpers, tights and trousers, two pairs of socks, gloves, big scarf and a ridiculous woolly hat (and that’s just in the house) I don’t have to worry that he will be shocked to find the glamorous woman he fell for transformed into this frump! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.