SWIMMINGPOD - WEST OXFORDSHIRE SWIMMING LAKE WITH EMMA GIBBARD AND CARL TYSOM
Emma Gibbard and Carl Tysom are both passionate about open water swimming, and are both involved in overseeing swimming at the West...
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LXVswim
Sep 51 min
SWIMMINGPOD - STANLEY ULIJASZEK, MEMORIES LIKE WATER AND THE FIRST OF 65 SWIMS
Five years ago I undertook 65 swims in different places at the age of 65 years. I have written a book about it, entitled ‘Memories like...
LXVswim
Jul 281 min
SWIMMINGPOD - HELEN EDWARDS’ RIVER-BASED EXHIBITION IN OXFORD ‘BREATHING OF LIFE’
Helen Edwards is an ecological artist, dancer, and swimmer. I am with her at her solo exhibition at Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre,...
LXVswim
Jul 231 min
SWIMMINGPOD - STANLEY’S 70TH BIRTHDAY SWIM PARTY
It’s not clear if life begins at 70, but life does start in water. The bible says three score and ten, 70 years, so from now on, life is...
LXVswim
Dec 13, 20231 min
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...
LXVswim
Apr 23, 20234 min
SWIMMINGPOD - POOP POLLUTION POLITICS BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
The gorgeous rivers of England are sick, and I am sick too. Of the politics, of the discharges into the rivers. Of the effluent, both...
LXVswim
Jan 13, 20232 min
SWIMMINGPOD – GRACE WRIGHT-ARORA, AND COLD WATER SWIMMING AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
So many cold water swimmers are non-conformists, but who would have thought of it as a political act? Grace Wright-Arora carried out...
LXVswim
Jan 2, 20234 min
I’M SORRY, SAY THAMES WATER, FOR RUINING YOUR SWIMS
I could feel it all over again this Christmas, the sense of deja-vu, of raw sewage running between my fingers and toes. The Oxford DODO...
LXVswim
Aug 18, 20221 min
SWIMMINGPOD - WILD OPEN SWIM, WITH KATH FOTHERINGHAM, FIONA UNDRILL AND DARRIN ROLES
The Wild Open Swim Blog is the organised work of Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles and Fiona Undrill. This now sits under the Swim Oxford...
LXVswim
Jun 28, 20214 min
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
May 7, 20216 min
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
Nov 7, 20208 min
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...
LXVswim
Aug 26, 20206 min
65@65 SWIM #59 – CHIPPING NORTON LIDO, THE COTSWOLDS
There is a little London glamour attached to the modest, beautifully proportioned and very lovely lido at Chipping Norton. It was...
LXVswim
Aug 11, 20204 min
65@65 SWIM #56 – RIVER EVENLODE AT CHARLBURY, OXFORDSHIRE
Remember when? This question came to mind over and over, on the way to, during, and after the swim in the River Evenlode at Charlbury....
LXVswim
Jul 16, 20205 min
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...
LXVswim
Jul 3, 20204 min
65@65 #54 - TWO LAKES WOSC
Of the most regular, everyday swimming places for me, ever since I realised that I didn’t need to drive hours to the coast to get a ‘good...
LXVswim
Jun 21, 20204 min
65@65 UNLOCKED – MID-SUMMER MORNING SWIM #53, DEVIL’S QUOITS, OXFORDSHIRE
As with lock down, there is not a right time to unlock. An epidemiologist at Harvard recently compared epidemics with house fires –the...
LXVswim
Jun 16, 20204 min
LOCK DOWN SWIMMING – BUBBLES ON THE WATER
There are more bubbles on the water than ever before. This is a good thing – under Covid-19 guidelines, there is a new verb – ‘to...
LXVswim
Jun 7, 20205 min
65@65 - YOU CAN'T LOCK DOWN THE MOON
As lock-down eases, somewhat uneasily, there was a moonlight swim locally. With Kristie, Judy, Jeremy, and Pauline, in a new-rules group...
LXVswim
May 23, 20206 min
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...
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