The Training Plan

This drawing is out of season, sorry, it should have appeared in November! I am currently compiling next year’s calendar … More

Mini Paintings for Sale

I’ve put all of the available mini swimmer paintings up for sale n my Etsy shop – this is my … More

Another commission I was asked for – this is a digital drawing, like most of my swimming pictures. The commissions … More

Clevedon Marine Lake Quite unlike the Last Swim of 2016, the first swim of 2017 was a mass affair. More … More

On Wednesday the marine lake had dropped to 9.5 degrees. This is not an unpleasant temperature at which to swim … More

We had our correct hats on, Clare and I. Perfectly synchronized with each other and with the view. The hat, … More

….though it would be fair to say that it is more definitively occupied at one end than the other. Sergeant … More

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

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

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