The 2023 Calendar:

“Long Swims …and short dips” 2023 calendars are for sale – available to buy from Etsy now. My apologies for … More

Water Sprite

In a day of much weather I walked up the steep path to Scales Tarn, which lies in the arms … More

“Immortal Bowscale” from a swim 18/4/22 Bowscale Tarn is not particularly on the way up anything, and so it happens … More

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

It was not winter, but a cold reluctant spring and feisty April weather (I have been slow to draw this … More

The first leaves began to fall, it seems like only yesterday. It was a few weeks ago in fact when … More

A quick impromptu dip, in – ahem – just my bra and pants. Getting into the habit of putting a … More

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

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

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