LXVSWIM

Apr 23, 20234 min read

SWIMMINGPOD - POOP POLLUTION POLITICS BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK

The gorgeous rivers of England are sick, and I am sick too. Of the politics, of the discharges into the rivers. Of the effluent, both...

Jan 2, 20234 min read

I’M SORRY, SAY THAMES WATER, FOR RUINING YOUR SWIMS

I could feel it all over again this Christmas, the sense of deja-vu, of raw sewage running between my fingers and toes. The Oxford DODO...

Jan 20, 20226 min read

THE SECOND GREAT STINK? SWIMMING RIVERS IN A MESS

‘I can feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes’ – ‘The water’s all around me, and so the feeling grows…’ Waking up from a dream, me...

Oct 15, 20212 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – SWIMMING, LEPTOSPIROSIS AND ME – A ‘NIGHT AT THE OPERA’, BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK

I am back in the water, not without anxiety I have to say. The experience of leptospirosis was a bit of a drama for me, and I don’t think...

Dec 13, 20191 min read

SINGLE USE PLASTICS AND THE GARBAGE PATCH STATE

Plastics in the ocean again - 'there is no elsewhere’ when it comes to garbage. The Garbage Patch State is multicentred, with a total...

Dec 12, 20192 min read

MUSEUMS OF WATER

The Coimbra Museum of Water is very small, with little tangible materiality beyond the ancient jars and bottles, and of course the modern...

Oct 30, 20191 min read

PACIFIC ISLANDS SWIMMING

Sometimes when there is no common or local knowledge about where to swim in a place I haven't been, I use Google Earth to scope possible...

Oct 2, 20190 min read

ANNIE CATRELL AT OXFORD BROOKES