LXVSWIM

Dec 13, 20231 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – WILD SWIMMING AND STUDENT LIFE, WITH VERA PROKOPIEVA AND ANNIE LIDDELL

Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddle were undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. They both took up wild swimming together while...

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...

Feb 14, 20223 min read

SWIMMINGPOD - DYLAN FRIEDMANN AND A YEAR OF SWIMMING AND DIPPING DAILY IN LAKE ONTARIO, CANADA

If you want to find Dylan Friedmann on a cold, cold, Toronto winter’s morning, it’s quite easy in some ways. First get up before dawn,...

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...