E for effort

 Tales from the past as the return to school looms.

I was never that good at gymnastics of any sort not that we didn't try anything and everything the others were doing with the advantages of two fully functional legs and at least a modicum of co-ordination.

The overall philosophy was one of everyone takes part regardless and has to try all to which any "but miss my..." tended to get short firth asthmatic, disabled didn't come into it and so I did encounter the vaulting horse.

It was never easy to get over it without ending up on the floor although back then if you gave the impression you put nothing into it you were likely to feel warm glow delivered to your rear and a public lecture.

I preferred the Games part of the curriculum