We had a lovely morning of swimming today in waters of 11C. Ron was a generous host providing many prizes for the swimmers in the 440 yard race. Mary won.
Other placings were taken by Nicola, Stuart, Mike, Haydn and John.
Thanks to Ron for the day and to President Norman Jones for the presentation where we learnt that Ron had once had to wait 12 hours in a pub without buying a drink. His teetotal experience happened during WWII, when his parent's East End pub was destroyed by a doodlebug. Luckily Ron escaped and has been happily supplying drinks ever since.
The jellyfish samples were photographed from an exhibition of Steffen Dam, a Danish artist who had space at the Saatchi Gallery at the weekend. His lovely work fitted in with the conversation flow generated by Robin's tweet about my attempts to wrestle with a jellyfish, a competition won by Medusa.
(John Tierney)
Finally, some other essentials about swimming etiquette: CLICK HERE
Mary wins Ron's race
