My son ever anxious that my sedentary lifestyle will get the better of me (I keep reminding him that Jim Fixx who wrote an early best-selling book about running, ironically died of a heart attack at the age of 52 years whilst running), enrolled me at the local swimming pool. We oldies get ‘free swims’. The problem you need an enrolment card, an app to book installed on your phone (gone are the days of just turning up), a photo id and proof of paying local council rates. On the first attempt at a swim, I arrived to find the pool closed and they had phoned to tell me only 8 minutes before I was due to arrive. Now I’m finding that to use the other swimming pools in the borough I’ll have to register at each with id and proof of council tax. Gone are the days of just turning up at Wood Green’s pool in the 50s and proffering 6d. That was much too simple.