R: I was more interested in going on walks around the river [...] and swimming in the river at night, which was very exciting; cold and miserable and horrid, but it was nice to be able to say to your friends the day after "I was swimming in the river last night at 10 o'clock." In actual fact it was terrible, you know, and you were muddy and cold and dirty, but it sounded good.
I: So who would you have gone to swim with in the river?

R: Girlfriends, but you'd meet the lads down there as well, yeah, yeah.

I: So was that quite a big thing?

R: If one of your friends was very fast, which one was, she'd go off with a boy, you know, for ten minutes and we never asked what they did, ever, we didn't want to know. But it wasn't rife, you know, mostly you didn't.