Swimming

Let's go swimming together in all sorts of places. We'll also look at swimming in history, art, literature, film, TV in fact any way swimming can be painted, photographed, filmed, written or mused about.

Thursday, 6 January 2022

Blessed - The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slaven by John Doyle.

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  A wonderful piece of writing, this is a novel and memoir, narrated by a fictional creation of the author, who is the long-standing comedic...
Tuesday, 4 January 2022

Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means

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Published by Allen and Unwin, London, 2020.  Covers very similar territory to Strokes of Genius: A History of Swimming by Eric Chaline (Reak...

Stokes of Genius : A History of Swimming by Eric Chaline

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Published by Reaktion Books, London, 2017. Covers very similar territory to Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means (Allen and Unw...
Monday, 20 December 2021

Where We Swim: Explorations of nature, travel and family by Ingrid Horrocks

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   At its best when talking about family connections and the spaces between us and bonds of love that hold us together. Not "just"...
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Wednesday, 1 December 2021

The Lido by Libby Page (Fiction), and some musings about lidos.

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In British parlance, a lido (pronounced, weirdly, Lie-do, not as it is from the Italian word lee-do, meaning ), meaning shore, as in the Lid...
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Saturday, 27 November 2021

At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pool (Daunt Books, 2019)

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Photo from CultureFly.co.uk     I found this small volume of 14 essays utterly intriguing.  Hampstead Heath in London contains three swimmin...

Film: Cloro (Italy, 2015)

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When seventeen year old  Jenny's mother dies suddenly,  with her father being ill and a nine year old brother to care for, she must move...

Britannia Park, near Warburton, Victoria

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Britannia Park in the Yarra Valley, Victoria, is a Girl Guides owned property. I went to some camps there when I was in Brownies, when we l...
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