LXVSWIM

I am back in the water, not without anxiety I have to say. The experience of leptospirosis was a bit of a drama for me, and I don’t think...

If you are an outdoor or open water swimmer you probably don’t want to know too much about leptospirosis, or its more extreme form,...

I talked with Anette Frisch about life, work, swimming, the future and the past and it became a podcast. We recorded it when the COVID-19...

It is late August, a time of year when summer is coming close to ending, and when I start to look forward to winter again. I used to...

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...

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...

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...

Anna Deacon is a photographer of considerable repute, her work appearing in a who’s who of UK journalism – The Times, The Guardian, The...

‘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...

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...

‘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...

It was a great privilege to share a podcasting platform with the inspirational Anna Deacon just recently. Anna is a photographer of...

The season is turning toward spring proper. The morning swims increasingly start in daylight or twilight and are accompanied by a flood...

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...

Alex Foster spent the winter months of 2019-2020 learning about winter swimming and cold water immersion at the Serpentine Swimming Club,...

’It was twenty years ago today…’ so went the song, nostalgia from the first line, like the conversation I had with Jeremy about the...

‘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...

Sandy Burnett is a Man of Music, especially amphibious in classical waters and jazz streams of consciousness. He is one of the most...

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...

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...