Downstream

were faffing around, and
stopping to chat with a
fisherman’, and while their
swim was covert to begin
with, ‘early morning seems to
appeal to people, it caught
people’s imagination’. In the
second year around twenty
other swimmers, mainly
friends, joined them, and the
year after that it had risen to
fifty. In 2008, with so many
people taking part, they
decided to formalise the event