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LXVswim
Mar 16, 20217 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – BLUETITS CHILL SWIMMERS, WITH FOUNDER SIAN RICHARDSON
The season is turning toward spring proper. The morning swims increasingly start in daylight or twilight and are accompanied by a flood...
LXVswim
Feb 26, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – ALEX FOSTER AND AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF A SWIMMING CLUB
Alex Foster spent the winter months of 2019-2020 learning about winter swimming and cold water immersion at the Serpentine Swimming Club,...
LXVswim
Feb 16, 20213 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – NOSTALGIA FOR LAKE BLED WITH JEREMY WELLINGHAM AND STANLEY ULIJASZEK
’It was twenty years ago today…’ so went the song, nostalgia from the first line, like the conversation I had with Jeremy about the...
LXVswim
Jan 22, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD –WITH SANDY BURNETT, MUSICIAN AND BROADCASTER, ON WATER, MUSIC, MUSIC AND WATER
Sandy Burnett is a Man of Music, especially amphibious in classical waters and jazz streams of consciousness. He is one of the most...
LXVswim
Dec 22, 20204 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – FROST SWIMMERS OF GOTHENBERG, SWEDEN – 100 DAGARKALLABAD
Bada bada bada, Varje dag, Bada bada bada, Varje dag, Bada Ja, Bada Ja, Bada bada bada, Varje dag! It is less of poetry than of trance...
LXVswim
Dec 9, 20208 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – SWIMMING COPENHAGEN-STYLE, WITH ANNE KATRINE KLEBERG HANSEN
I dreamed of swimming last night – in Copenhagen, a place denied to me in this year of coronavirus. I have been coming to Copenhagen...
LXVswim
Nov 22, 20204 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – KRISTIE WALLER AND JUDY PEARSALL, WOMEN WHO SWIM TOGETHER
It is November, and Lockdown Two, which thankfully permits outdoor swimming as long as it is not at a venue. Hardwick Lake is closed for...
LXVswim
Nov 12, 20205 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – SWIM THE THAMES, WITH SEF PENROSE, JEREMY WELLINGHAM, CHRIS DALTON AND SHARON CURTIS
Most good ideas start with a conversation. This particular idea started with Sef and Jeremy mulling over swimming into the River Thames....
LXVswim
Nov 2, 20203 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - HELEN EDWARDS AND DIP-A-DAY ALL YEAR ROUND SWIMMING
Woman for All Seasons Helen Edwards has insinuated herself on my psyche almost by stealth. I honestly can’t remember when I met her...
LXVswim
Oct 26, 20203 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - WINTER SWIMMING WITH CRAIG HOLMES AND JO JONES
I first met Craig at a Dodo swim in Oxford – that is December Oxford Dip Outdoors. Or Dip Outdoors December Oxford. Or December Outdoors...
LXVswim
Oct 19, 20203 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - DESPERATELY SEEKING PAULINE BARKER
Nick, at the Serpentine Swimming Club, wanted to introduce me to Pauline Barker last year. I couldn’t make it to London that day, and...
LXVswim
Oct 18, 20206 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – A PODCAST SERIES FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO SWIM OUTDOORS
The running head for ‘swimmingpod’ is ‘a podcast series for people who like to swim (outdoors)’ - a deliberate cheese-take on the...
LXVswim
Nov 12, 20192 min read
DIGITIZING VENICE
There is absolutely nothing like visiting a place, to get a sense of it. That is both the beauty and the tragedy of Venice – it is...
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