Downstream

he says, ‘but we thought if an
American can do it surely we
can too.’ So on a hot day he
took the plunge.
The seventy-eight-year-old
still swims today and says
there has been ‘a massive
change in the Thames, there
used to be nothing in the
water but eels and nothing on
the surface but mallards, now
there are herons in the trees
and crested grebes on the
banks. I don’t do the macho