Swimming with Mother

Amidst intermittent torrential showers Mother and I braved Ullswater’s choppy waters. Last time I was here, the water was a … More

To Wildcat Island…

Chillswim Coniston end-to-end 2016 On Saturday we swam the five and a quarter mile length of Coniston, me and about … More

Wormy is still around, but currently in favour is Catnip Dynamite, a highly bitable stuffed cloth cylinder attached to a … More

A couple of ‘kitten action’ sketches. The top left one was actually a few days ago, young wobbly-kitten-walking. Now we … More

I have an electric propagator. It is basically a plastic tray with an electric heater beneath its surface, so that … More

Sergeant Stripes came to us yesterday at less than 4 weeks old. It is possible that some very awful people … More

Now don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against a nice warm swim at 20 degrees in the summer, nothing … More

Percy is STARVING* and is expressing his anguish with all of the waggling his considerable ears can muster. He can … More

…backstroke in the Marine Lake A glorious morning, a quite ridiculous 22 degrees in the water, and I am swimming … More

In my (albeit fairly limited) experience, it is always colder in Ullswater. I don’t know why, but I don’t just … More