Summer’s here: the Tri Season has begun!

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

Lisa

Painting in watercolour, with bubbles in palladium and aluminium leaf. Another painting from a photo in the incomparable waters of … More

I’ve been looking at some of my photos taken at Vobster Quay, of swimmers underwater. I take these as an … More

‘Why do you do it?’ said the diver, struggling into her drysuit and eyeing my swimming costume with a tinge … More

September 15th: Vobster Quay’s annual ‘Glow Swim’ and the swimmers are ready to go. Once, twice… four times round the … More

Tuesday was our last swim of the year (I am not counting a visit to the swimming pool yesterday, which … More

The leaves are just beginning to turn, but they aren’t in the lake yet. What was in the lake was … More

It’s pretty hard to draw from memory, even on a last lap round the lake, breaststroke, with nothing much else … More

Vobster, yesterday. It was indeed fine weather for ducks. Fortunately there we were to take advantage of it: a flotilla … More

This is the drawing I meant to do two months ago, the start of one of Vobster’s Aquathalons. That’s me, … More