Open Water Swimming

Sunk by the swim at Sunderland

One of my secret – well not-so-secret now I’m confessing it here — addictions is sci-fi and fantasy fiction. And among the best of the fantasy series I’ve discovered recently has been Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London, about a detective, Peter Grant, who solves magical crimes in a world where the river deities manifest asContinueContinue reading “Sunk by the swim at Sunderland”

Getting on a bit

There are perfectly decent ways to get across the enormous expanse of London and out into the countryside without crocking yourself so seriously you can’t get out of bed for three days. When I finally, sheepishly admitted to my boss that the reason I could barely function at work and simply needed to sleep someContinueContinue reading “Getting on a bit”