SKINNY DIPPING SPOT

During hottest month of the drought
We youngsters would go swim in nowt,
Within a wooded stretch of brook
That we thought grown ups would not look.
We were at age when pubic hair
Began to adorn us 'down there'
And the girls had upon their chests
The beginnings of adult breasts.
It made us feel wicked and free
Going bathing "in the noddy" -
Until day Dad said (to my shame),
When he was young 'we' did the same;
On that stretch of the brook, no less,
They too went in state of undress...
("It's where your mother and I met,
I pushed her in and got her wet!")
I told my friends, to a great moan,
I thought our cover might be blown;
If our elders had used that place,
Then we might be caught in disgrace.
But that chance of being found out
Came to abrupt end with the drought,
Next day rainstorm put brook in flood
And turned water to shade of mud.