SWIMMINGPOD - STANLEY ULIJASZEK, MEMORIES LIKE WATER AND THE FIRST OF 65 SWIMS
Five years ago I undertook 65 swims in different places at the age of 65 years. I have written a book about it, entitled ‘Memories like...
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Jul 3, 20232 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – GEORGIE MILNER ON SWIMMING AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Access is an important issue everywhere. People of all creeds and backgrounds swim. A few months before recording this podcast I was in...
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Apr 18, 20225 min read
COPENHAGEN SWIMMING AND TOGS FOR A PANDEMIC RECYCLED
It somehow feels right to leave my stripy togs in Copenhagen to be recycled. On the last day here, after nearly three years away, I put...
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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...
LXVswim
Dec 24, 20216 min read
CHRISTMAS SWIMMING AND RITUAL – ON A TALK BY AUTHOR MADELEINE BUNTING
I saw three swimmers go swimming by On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; I saw three swimmers go swimming by On Christmas Day in the...
LXVswim
May 7, 20216 min read
THE EYNSHAM WAVE AND SWIMMER ROSS MACKEN
‘Who knows what the future will bring?’ These words echoed through my mind as I cycled down to Eynsham Lock to swim with Julie this...
LXVswim
Apr 13, 20213 min read
SWIMMING TOGETHER ALONE – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY SWIM 2021, WITH ANNA DEACON
It was a great privilege to share a podcasting platform with the inspirational Anna Deacon just recently. Anna is a photographer of...
LXVswim
Nov 7, 20208 min read
SMOKE ON THE WATER - LOCKDOWN TWO AND COVID SWIMMING
It is a season of forgotten holidays, moving toward Lockdown Two in the UK. This morning I saw Sarah walk past my front door in the...
LXVswim
Oct 1, 20209 min read
65@65 THE LAST SWIM – ON CHESIL BEACH
Heisenberg was OK with uncertainty, and Schrodinger had a cat. That is how I remember high-school physics - it is a good job my physics...
LXVswim
Sep 20, 20208 min read
65@65 SWIM #64 – FARLEIGH AND DISTRICT RIVER SWIMMING CLUB
“Are we nearly there yet?” – so spoke the look on Pauline’s face as we were getting closer, but not quite there, in rural Somerset, with...
LXVswim
Sep 8, 20206 min read
65@65 SWIM #62 - CLEVEDON MARINE LAKE, NEAR BRISTOL
‘I am the walrus… I am the walrus…’ kept circling in my mind on the way to Clevedon Marine Lake, across the other side of Bristol, on the...
LXVswim
Aug 26, 20206 min read
65@65 SWIM #59 – CHIPPING NORTON LIDO, THE COTSWOLDS
There is a little London glamour attached to the modest, beautifully proportioned and very lovely lido at Chipping Norton. It was...
LXVswim
Aug 14, 20204 min read
65@65 SWIM #57 – NEWNHAM RIVERSIDE CLUB, CAMBRIDGE
It felt like entering Narnia, the magical world created by C.S. Lewis. I was in Cambridge but brought Oxfordshire with me, such is the...
LXVswim
Jun 21, 20204 min read
65@65 UNLOCKED – MID-SUMMER MORNING SWIM #53, DEVIL’S QUOITS, OXFORDSHIRE
As with lock down, there is not a right time to unlock. An epidemiologist at Harvard recently compared epidemics with house fires –the...
LXVswim
Jun 16, 20204 min read
LOCK DOWN SWIMMING – BUBBLES ON THE WATER
There are more bubbles on the water than ever before. This is a good thing – under Covid-19 guidelines, there is a new verb – ‘to...
LXVswim
Jun 7, 20205 min read
65@65 - YOU CAN'T LOCK DOWN THE MOON
As lock-down eases, somewhat uneasily, there was a moonlight swim locally. With Kristie, Judy, Jeremy, and Pauline, in a new-rules group...
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May 23, 20206 min read
65@65 LOCK-DOWN SWIM – GODSTOW LOCK WITH ABBA
Abba is the happy-music that pops up when I am happy. Life somehow is less than surreal, but it could go from stage two back to stage one...
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May 6, 20208 min read
65@65 LOCK-DOWN SWIM – MAY DAY, MAGDALEN BRIDGE OXFORD
“First of May! First of May, Outdoor ****ing starts today”. Rumpole of the Bailey, a fictional lawyer, a character in every sense of the...
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Apr 27, 20205 min read
65@65 LOCK-DOWN SWIM - FIGURES OF EIGHT AT SWINFORD BRIDGE
I woke up this morning with the number 888 in my head. On Sunday 19th April, Pauline woke me with a cup of tea and “888”. I like numbers,...
LXVswim
Apr 22, 20204 min read
65@65 LOCK-DOWN SWIM – MY DEAR PORT MEADOW
If I were writing a letter to my beloved outdoor swimming, it might start ‘My dear Port Meadow…’. It would be written long-hand, with...
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