SEAS THE DAY

Splashing around in the water, my parents cheered with glee.

‘You did it, Hannah!’ my mum, Ginny, now 72, squealed with excitement.

I was only three years old, and just learnt to swim.

This is early for some kids, but growing up in Brunei, Asia, I was always around the water.

My dad was stationed there with the Navy, so we moved with him.

From then on, you couldn’t get me out of the ocean, I essentially lived in the sea.

As a child, the other girls in my class thought they were going to grow up to be princesses, but I longed to be a mermaid.

When I was five, we moved back to our home county of Devon.

But I