Downstream

month, winter and summer,
rain, hail, snow and, if lucky,
sun, and twice a month in the
summer.’ They have a core of
around ten people and publish
the swims on Facebook so
others can join in. ‘We’ve
had more than a hundred
people come along at one
time or another, sometimes
just as we swim past their
locality. It’s very much a
social event, although some
of us – not me – are quite