Downstream

I find it strange that an
event so widely reported at
the time has now been
forgotten; it’s as if each time
someone in the twenty-first
century attempts to set a
record in the Thames they’re
unaware that it has been tried
before. I’m beginning to think
that the history of Thames
swimming has so many stops
and starts that it will never be
a straightforward, linear
story; rather, we repeatedly