The 2023 Calendar:

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

Bowscale Tarn

“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 winter, but a cold reluctant spring and feisty April weather (I have been slow to draw this … More

Jackie and I went swimming in Ullswater last week. The rain in the morning was so heavy I discovered that, … More

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

So yesterday we swam round Burgh Island. Plum Duff was suffering from a dodgy shoulder from a 5 hour swim … More

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

Spring has sprung in the lake. It gets in through the front of one’s swimming costume and collects where it … More

[Note: apologies for on-going lack of cats. I am on holiday and there are no cats here!] Yesterday I returned … More

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