Downstream

early in the season as training
for the Channel. My plan was
to do a three-way swim in
July and we were looking for
a sponsor, and in June the sea
is cold whereas rivers are
warming up. It was quite
cold, though, it was a horrible
wet day, with diabolical
conditions.’ He was then
thirty-one and working as
assistant news editor at the
London Evening News. ‘The
Thames was on my doorstep;