Wednesday, 24 November 2021

The Invisible Image: The Tomb of the Diver on the fiftieth anniversary of its discovery (Exhibition)

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  In 2018, we were fortunate to visit Paestum, in southern Italy, while this exhibition was on.  The Tomb of the Diver dates back to 470 BCE...

Vintage Swimwear: A History of Twentieth Century Fashions by Sarah Kennedy

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A really interesting book, beautifully illustrated. Traces the history of women's swimwear from the early 20th to early 21st century. As...

Beaches of Batemans Bay and the Eurobodalla Coast

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  A very useful guide to every beach from Durras, in Murramarang National Park in the north, to Wallaga Beach in the south of the shire.It i...

The Swim Club by Anne de Lisle

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 Five women swim and talk their way through relationships with each other and the men in their lives. They inevitably find their physical an...

The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle by Sophie Green

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  I felt like I'd read this book before, then realised a couple of years ago I read The Swim Club by Anne de Lisle . It too was about a ...

Australian Survivor: Champions vs Contenders - Meet Shane Gould

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To read more about Shane Gould, see this blog entry In this online article in Swimming World , Ms Gould told the author, Craig Lord that  ...

Tumble Turns (1st edition and revised edition) by Shane Gould

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At the time of writing the first edition (published 1999), Shane was preparing for her involvement in the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The revis...

The Million Dollar Mermaid by Esther Williams with Digby Diehl

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  I saw a few Esther Williams films on TV as a kid and remember the excerpts in the That's Entertainment films. Williams was a national...