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Category: Open Water Swimming

Family Adventures – Ullswater & Big BBQ

Friday, 24th July 2026

Laurence and Beth visited us for a week of glorious sunny Lakeland weather… Laetitia was busy getting ready for the big family BBQ later in the week, so I went out with Laurence and Beth up Helvellyn via Striding Edge to kick off the week of adventures. Beth had never been to the Lakes before, …

Pabbay

Monday, 12th June 2023

We’ve been looking forward to and fearing our trip to Pabbay, a remote and uninhabited tiny island off Scotland in the Bishop Isles, in varyingly different amounts for some time…

Easter with Laurence & Megan

Monday, 10th April 2023

Thankfully the long Easter weekend was blessed with a brilliant sunny forecast, perfect for our visiting nephew, Laurence, and his girlfriend, Megan, to see some of the best the Lake District has to offer…

More awesome Bank Holiday weather

Tuesday, 29th May 2018

While the south of England is cloaked in fog and Birmingham suffers from flash flooding the north west is continuing to bask in glorious wall-to-wall sunshine!

Great North Swim 2016 and Ingleborough

Sunday, 12th June 2016

With no training and only a couple of quick dips in the water this year I made the crazy decision to enter the Great North Swim again.

Amazing Lakeland Bank Holiday Weather

Wednesday, 1st June 2016

The weather this past bank holiday has been amazing in the Lake District. In fact the whole of the North West has been enjoying a prolonged period of settled sunny weather. 😀 Especially nice that, in an unusual turn around of the normal way of things, the South East has been getting rained on. 😉

Coniston & Zac’s First Swim

Tuesday, 1st September 2015

After messing about in the water yesterday I wanted to go for a proper swim so we went to Coniston.

2015 Great North Swim

Saturday, 13th June 2015

I got myself booked in the Great North Swim quite late this year. There weren’t many slots left available but 3pm Saturday afternoon was a reasonable time.

Great North Swim

Sunday, 15th June 2014

Last year I started open water swimming and I had the crazy idea to enter the Great North Swim.