<WARNING: I might talk about FEEEEEELINGS a tiny bit in this one> So my last pre-event blog marks my first that doesn’t consist of one long, thinly veiled whinge! It probably means I won’t spend hours trying to be clever or acerbic but I’ve just got to get these words […]

When I signed up for this swim there have been two blogs I have been quietly fantasising about writing. The most exciting one for me is the one after the swim when I can tell you all how amazing it was, and I was and how proud I am of […]

I did politics A level and I loved it. Its entirely possible that that was just because it gave me a legitimate excuse to disagree with a teacher but, nevertheless, it was my favourite subject. Recently with two general elections, the Brexit vote and fact that Donald Trump is still […]

I was supposed to go and repeatedly plough up and down the pool wasn’t I? I imagine that anyone who knows me even a tiny bit will know that that isn’t quite what happened! I thought about it a lot (a lot) and then I did it a bit. Then […]

Entering the competition to swim the Henley Mile was one thing – winning it was quite another. It felt like the right time to do something like this and meant that, if I won a place (which of course there was no way I could), at least I had done […]