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LXVswim
Jul 19, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – KELP FOREST DIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH BEN COUSINS
Ben Cousins is 72 years old and is passionate about the ocean – he has surfed it, swum in it, and now free dives in and around the ocean...
LXVswim
Jun 28, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – GRUMPY OLD SWIMMING, WITH JUDITH HOLDER
A few years ago, a woman in a red dressing-gown turned up at the swimming area at Lake Hardwick, at eight in the morning. She took out a...
LXVswim
Jun 4, 20215 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – BERLIN SWIMMING SPREE - CAITLIN KRAEMER AND SWIMMING IN THE CITY
Berlin is many cities at once, all in progress. Caitlin Kraemer knows many of these cities, but the one she is interested in from an...
LXVswim
May 17, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - ANNA DEACON AND ‘TAKING THE PLUNGE’
Anna Deacon is a photographer of considerable repute, her work appearing in a who’s who of UK journalism – The Times, The Guardian, 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 30, 20213 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - DARRIN ROLES AND THE OXFORDSHIRE LOCK TO LOCK SWIM EVENTS
Darrin Roles is Eynsham man and boy. I have lived in Eynsham only since 1999, and have met him a number of times, increasingly so in the...
LXVswim
Apr 13, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – JULIET TURNBULL SWIMMING AND SINGING THE THAMES
‘She came in through the bathroom window’- the song welled up from the deep as I stumbled to the bathroom this morning, before any tea...
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
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
Mar 12, 20213 min read
VISIONS – ANETTE FRISCH, AKA BAHNEN_ZIEHEN, DUSSELDORF
The Phrase of Corona-Year 2020 is probably ‘You’re muted’. This is how Anette Frisch’s images of outdoor pools in Germany speak to me...
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
Feb 5, 20216 min read
BIN-SWIMMING AND LOCKDOWN THREE
‘Bin swimming?’ – I thought I was being asked if I had been swimming, now in Lockdown Three. Not so. It was more a quizzical thought...
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
Jan 8, 20215 min read
A POLAR BEAR IN THE BATH TUB?
It was the start of Lockdown Three, and I was determined not to take it lying down. Facilities across the land closed down, and when...
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 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...
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