Downstream

Christmas Day swim, I wait
until it’s hot.’ The furthest
he’s swum is half a mile
upstream and back: ‘you very
much feel the current on the
way back, swimming at high
tide is the nicest. Once a seal
popped up next to me, and
looked at one with some
curiosity, it spent a week in
Richmond where there was
easy fishing and then it got
bored and swam off.’
According to the