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BecChat – the SLSC monthly newsletter
Read all about SLSC members’ swimmy adventures at Tooting Bec Lido and beyond.
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Why holiday on the Costa del Sol ???
I found myself discussing the merits of all inclusive / organised holidays to Mombasa in the staff kitchen this week…
Brighton Odyssey
“Brighton in October”. These are not words that you normally associate with “blazing sun” or “flat sea”. However, the impromptu…
Jim Boucher’s second English Channel crossing
Never say never again! I first swam the English Channel in 2007, aged 46 years. A time of 15 hours…
Ferries are for Wimps and for the Wise
Robben Island to Cape Town – 4 hours and 1 minute There’s no question that Cape Town is one of…
Ferries are for wimps but lunch isn’t!
Simon Murie was responsible for coining the phrase for his Swimtrek company logo “Ferries are for wimps, let’s swim!” so…
Two Extras in Thames River Swim
This year’s River Swim had 49 official swimmers who took off from Kingston Bridge in a riot of flailing limbs…
Tooting Bec Lido floats down Tooting High Street
After months of hard ironing of plastic bags into hats, tabards and watery fronds; sawing up gazebo poles, moulding plastic…
