I bring people to the water, despite the cold. I admire anyone taking up outdoor swimming in January. The ground is littered with icy footsteps some mornings now, where swimmers’ feet meet the cold ground on the scamper to the sauna. This is not the lido of lazy summer afternoons where you can stretch out… Read more

Here’s a thing that getting into cold water has taught me: if you’re afraid of something, just do it, even if you do it badly. Fake it, in fact, until you’re doing it for real. Because sometimes when you’re pretending to do something, you discover you’re doing it for real. When I get into 5C… Read more