Our early Tuesday morning swim and the changing rooms, always deserted before, have become a disconcerting gothic scene of hanging rubber gimp suits! It is TEK Camp at Vobster and they have got here before us. These are not swimmers’ wetsuits, these are so reinforced, padded and booted they are practically people all on their own.

[note to the pedantic: I do not have a pink swimming costume, it’s artistic licence, innit.]