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

Underneath the Arches

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

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

Went for a bob in the sea this morning. Couldn’t really call it ‘swimming’ as it was rather like this. … More

Vobster at sunrise yesterday! Still mist on the water. Ruth and Jim ahead of me and when I looked up … More