Self-Portrait, in Red Tarn

I’ve walked to the top of Helvellyn an uncounted number of times over the last 30… 35… years, but I’ve … More

The Trouble with Tarns

[Note: apologies for on-going lack of cats. I am on holiday and there are no cats here!] Yesterday I returned … More

Clevedon Pier this morning with me beneath it, just there, at the bottom. I think I may have made the … More

The weather was a little frisky for our swim on Tuesday and I had to resort to front crawl on … More

(…being a thing run not against each other but against the onset of the shivering.) Whether we dress in a … More

My thermometer says it is still barely six degrees (though discussions with people on site suggest it might be nearly … More

This is the recovery position for winter swimmers, not for drunk people. Though addled brains, an inability to speak in … More

…at Vobster Quay. So foggy was it that the nice people who work there said could we just swim widthways … More

I attempted to draw this morning’s swim from memory. Tricky… I am not used to ‘realistic’ landscape stuff and I … More

Yesterday at Vobster, getting out of the lake after the last swim of the year. Wave cheerily to the nice … More