Stepping into Single Figures… gingerly

(Brothers Water, Cumbria, 15/10/19) To be fair, I was stepping far more gingerly than Susan and Francine: they with shoes, … More

2020 Calendars are here!

To be honest, I’ve been selling calendars for next year for a couple of months on the quiet, but I … More

It was not warm in Derwentwater: not yet ‘Baltic’, but well into ‘quite nippy’. It was past sunset and Emma … More

To get to Clevedon I drive North on the M5, Lucy drives South, which can sometimes give one or other … More

Compiling the pictures for the calendar for 2020, I have found one more drawing that got missed off this blog, … More

We got to Ullswater on Saturday morning, in the wind and rain. Rosie and Francine were already swimming, right out … More

(with apologies to triathlon friends and Richard!) “I thought that was you”, Richard Smith said to me on Thursday afterwards. … More

I will not say that this happened, this is merely a hypothesis. If it had happened, if it had happened … More

I’m an artist: I’m not obliged to be politically correct, or even accurate, but there is a difference between girls … More

In truth the Silly Season has been going on since about December if you are a cold water swimmer. If … More