The Rubber People

Our early Tuesday morning swim and the changing rooms, always deserted before, have become a disconcerting gothic scene of hanging … More

Jim, transformed!

Now we know that it is summer: last week Jim took off his wetsuit, and got back in the lake! … More

Swimming in the rain, at Vobster. I would have liked to draw us and the bubbles all in one picture, … More

The weather was a little frisky for our swim on Tuesday and I had to resort to front crawl on … More

My thermometer says it is still barely six degrees (though discussions with people on site suggest it might be nearly … 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

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