It's now 8 weeks until the Winter Swimming World Championships, and I've just finalised my travel arrangements. There's a team of us going from my local swimming club, and most people are flying from Stansted to Tampere, then taking the train to Rovaniemi. However, I try to avoid planes nowadays (to reduce my oil dependency) so I'm taking a ( Read more... )

As many people have noticed (and mentioned), it's been snowing today in London. I normally cycle as part of my commute, but when I got up this morning I considered walking to the bus stop instead. Still, I try not to be a "fair weather cyclist" so I took the bike out, and it turned out to be a surprisingly good day for cycling. The council have ( Read more... )

As many people have mentioned, it started snowing in England yesterday. Last year I bought a snow shovel, so this was a good opportunity for me to try it out.

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I cycled over to Tooting Bec Lido today for a swim. Normally they close to the public at the end of September, but they extended that by a couple of days because we've had such warm weather recently. I haven't been along for a while, but that was the busiest I've ever seen it. The water was about 17°C, and I gasped a bit when I first got in, but it ( Read more... )

As most people have noticed, it's been snowing in England recently. However, some local authorities and train companies handle this better than others ( Read more... )

As most people reading this will already know, the last few days in London have been quite chilly; this has made cycling a bit more of a challenge than usual, so I may need to get some extra clothing ( Read more... )

As many people have noticed, it's snowing today. By Durham standards, it's not particularly severe (I remember the river Wear freezing over), but in London it's an excuse for lots of people to have a day off. There are no buses running, so I walked to the railway station (in my wellies) and found that there are no trains either, so I came back home ( Read more... )

As you may have heard, there's been a bit of snow in London today. Not a great deal compared to other places (I remember the river Wear freezing while I was in Durham), but enough to be unusual. When I woke up, the radio presenter was reading out a long list of all the trains that had stopped working, but fortunately my journey wasn't too bad - ( Read more... )