65@65 SWIM #55 - THE THAMES AT MURDER CENTRAL (WALLINGFORD)
The weather was hot enough to want to murder someone. Early summer 2020 was the hottest on record for the UK, and after a day inside of...
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LXVswim
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...
LXVswim
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...
LXVswim
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...
LXVswim
Apr 2, 20205 min read
65@65 SWIM #52 DAY'S LOCK, RIVER THAMES
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...
LXVswim
Jan 2, 20202 min read
65@65 SWIM #35, CHRISTMAS EVE, THE THAMES AT IFFLEY LOCK
This one was unexpected, but should not have been. Emma had a swim-aversary, she had swum every day for a year. Every single day,...
LXVswim
Jan 2, 20203 min read
LAUNCHING INTO CHRISTMAS
The Christmas period 2019 was a special period for swimming and dipping. When the swims were so perfect in their own way and the...
LXVswim
Dec 16, 20193 min read
65@65 SWIM #33, DODO!
Dodo – December Outdoor Dip Oxford; Dip Outdoor December Oxford; December Oxford Dip Outdoors. I am never sure how it goes, but however...
LXVswim
Oct 31, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #21, THE THAMES, FROM TRUSS'S ISLAND TO CHERTSEY BRIDGE
This felt very much like the last longer one before winter sets in. Thanks to Juliet and Hywel - lovely company, lovely day - the sun...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #19 - SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN THE THAMES
Port Meadow, Oxford in the morning, Hammersmith in the evening. Changing by the dodo tree in Oxford and watching the sun rise at water...
LXVswim
Oct 17, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #11 TEDDINGTON TO RICHMOND
Thames again, Teddington to Richmond. Swim the Thames Group Missing Link Swim. Several years ago, a group of kindred souls swam the...
LXVswim
Oct 2, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #6 THE THAMES AT DORCHESTER
Not quite a moonlight swim, just a little too early for that. The birthday swim of Chris Dalton at a small beach a little downstream of...
LXVswim
Oct 1, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #5 THE THAMES AGAIN, AGAIN. LECHLADE TO BUSCOT
Lechlade to Buscot is a swim I have done several times. This is a must-swim swim, for three reasons. To see the beautiful town of...
LXVswim
Oct 1, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #4 THE THAMES AGAIN. JOINT BIRTHDAY SWIM WITH KRISTIE WALLER, SWINFORD BRIDGE, EYNSHAM
Swinford Bridge is where I first started swimming outdoors when we came to Oxford from Australia, twenty years ago. In Oz, I was used to...
LXVswim
Oct 1, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #3 THE THAMES AT LONG BRIDGES, OXFORD
Long Bridges is the site of a former open air river bathing place River Thames close to Donnington Bridge, Oxford. This was one of...
LXVswim
Oct 1, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #2 THE CHERWELL RIVER, OXFORD
Venetian rowing up to University Parks, then a pleasant swim up and gentle float down. Stand-up rowing isn't the easiest, but hugely...
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