Posts By : Graeme

Seven days to go!! Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read this. This Blog serves two purposes, to Keep you abreast of what is happening in the Hippo world and this month, the wider world. A lot has happened  in the last couple of weeks. I find myself in a bit of an […]

Crochet Chronicles A fun story about the birth of a costume This is a story about the new Must Have costume in the open water swimming world… What started off as a bit of a joke about 16 months ago has now turned into a fully fledged Costume contagion. So what is it all about […]

Standup/Lie down Paddle boarding. I know I spend a lot of time IN the water, but recently, an opportunity arose which could not be missed. Some ladies from one of the groups I regularly swim with also swims at a lake not to far from where we do our river swims. This lake is more […]

Jubilee Swim Build Up It has come and gone and I am still in one piece??? The run up to this event was a bit of a damp squib with me losing my swim mojo about three weeks before it so I did virtually no training in the three weeks apart from heading to the […]

Reflecting back! It is not often that I live in the past but some things just have to be pondered on and last week, A memory popped up on social media and it was this photo.   On the 19th May 2008, there I was looking out a Dover harbour for my very first Open […]

Open water YIIIPPPPEEEEE!!!   This year is really running away with us, a bit like leaving the door open and the horse has bolted – with you on it!! if you are into open water swimming in Mud island, you have just got to love that opening photo that I took of a friend of […]

Something has gotten up my nose!! I have not blogged recently because, apart from just keeping my training going and entering a friendly Gala last week between the two Gyms that I am part of. It was fun, after MANY MANY years, to be back in a  gala situation and I put in a good […]

Another Swim to sign up for. A new one on the circuit. 2016 is marching on at a pretty rapid pace and up until now, I have been getting frustrated that I did not have a decent distance swim to take part in this year. I had been planning on doing Lago D Orta in […]

Support Crew essentials Recently I was contacted by a prospective support crew who will be kayaking for a Swimmer in SCAR this year. She pointed out to me that there was not a lot of information regarding the role of the kayaker, and what is needed when it comes to supporting us mad swimmers and […]

Happy New Year to All my readers. A little bit late I know, but there was a good reason for it. After christmas 2015, We flew out to South Africa for Audras’ Nephews Wedding. This was on the 31st December and it was a wonderful affair At Cranford Country lodge. An Idyllic part of South […]