I’ve walked to the top of Helvellyn an uncounted number of times over the last 30… 35… years, but I’ve…
Coniston End-to-End: Green hats are ready to go!
Coniston-end-to-end, 2015. We are at one end, ready to swim to the other end, five and a quarter miles away.…
The colours of the morning, 30th August
Clevedon, early yesterday morning. These were the colours of our swim, and they were beautiful. Soft, muted blues, yellows and…
Last light at Vobster
It’s pretty hard to draw from memory, even on a last lap round the lake, breaststroke, with nothing much else…
Nice Weather for (Rubber) Ducks
Vobster, yesterday. It was indeed fine weather for ducks. Fortunately there we were to take advantage of it: a flotilla…
Wilting in a Wetsuit
I never have really got on with wetsuits, and I hadn’t put mine on since last year. Apparently this was…
Handball!
There is some football cup or something just beginning today. Freyja has been deposited back with me in my studio:…
The Start!
This is the drawing I meant to do two months ago, the start of one of Vobster’s Aquathalons. That’s me,…
The Princess and the Pea
For the last 3 nights Percy has eschewed the bed. Perhaps he feels that it is not soft and yielding…
The Drug Baron’s Veg Bed
There are always a heap of weeds in my veg bed, I pull out a lot in the spring but…
