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done today, inviting members
to come to the hut at 2 p.m.
for a swim.’ But it is hard
work, especially as he’s a
full-time nursing lecturer at
Essex University. ‘My
reasons are personal, there are
very few things we can do as
a family and the Thames is on
our doorstep.’ It was also
personal reasons that led him
to come up with forty open-
water swims to mark his
fortieth birthday, with at least