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...

Apr 16, 20204 min read

Today, work continues in a stutter-state of conference calls, Zoom, Skype, Teams, Hang Out, the local-to-Oxford platforms; I never...

Apr 4, 20204 min read

This is a new world, somehow surreal and strange, new yet not new to the world. Surreal. With surrealism, dream-like states allow fish to...

Apr 2, 20205 min read

The loneliness of the social-distanced swimmer. I miss you all, and it’s only been a week or so. Pauline and I are nostalgic about the...

Mar 24, 20203 min read

I was to have been in Italy this week, at the Slow Food Foundation. I have work there two sometimes three times a year. It is always...

Mar 20, 20202 min read

South London Swimming Club are framed as the opposition by the Serpentine Swimming Club, at least when it comes to the annual races...

Dec 20, 20192 min read

Cats can swim, and some big cats have to from time to time, when hunting. Smaller domesticated cats can, but prefer not to. If they get...