This past week has been exceptionally beautiful – especially when you consider that this mid winter.  When the weather blesses you with days like this,  you can’t help but be reminded of your good fortune. It was also a bit of a Celebrity Saturday with the surprise arrival of Jules and Michael. Chatting with Jules after the...

I was listening this morning to an interview with the translator who translated the phenomenal Ferrante books from Italian into English and she talked about the challenges of getting across the sense of the original narrative as well as just translating the words. It made me think of all of the people that are the first to...

You may have been forgiven for hearing the alarm this morning, listening to the patter of rain on the rooftop and then rolling over and going back to sleep. But 91 of us hearty regulars – or nutcases as my friends calls us – ventured down to the Manly Surf Lifesaving Club for our morning...

It was a grey, wet, dark, gloomy morning. But it was still easy to get out of bed (who am I kidding?) and come down to the beach this morning because I knew I would feel better for it. I just needed that period of quiet contemplation or meditation or just thinking about nothing. Being...

This is what we saw when we arrived…. Amazing!   The 7 O’Clockers heading out to the point.     The beach was full of life today at 7am.   Contemplating a wonderful swim.     JK waiting at the point. Pretty good place to be hanging around.   The Stats Regulars: 120 Newbies: 1...

  Such an eerie, mysterious, foggy sky this morning, especially as we swam back from Shelly. It felt like it might well be the end of the world… Well if it is, I thought, I’m glad I’m out here in the ocean swimming across Cabbage Tree Bay, the best place to be! The blog title...

Today was like the majority of my high school sporting career – a lot of time spent on the sideline, but it wasn’t the coaches’ orders this time, it was Manflu or as my mother insists is the correct medical term, boyflu. This sideline view did however, give me a bit of time to get...

Heading down the hill to the swim, the very chirpy man from Marine Rescue was on the radio and he was looking on the bright side of a chilly winter morning. He jubilantly explained that, “. . .today we have six extra minutes of daylight!”. I think that is based on the time of sunrise...

today we were all thinking about swimming well. The air was cool but the water is still a toasty 17.6   Nick was so lucky today – two supervisors       The BB sponsors. Good businesses to use     Kathy, Emma, Alan and John     Everyone wanted to photo this group so I...

    1. Boosts your immune system For your body, a sudden and drastic change in temperature constitutes an attack ! And, whilst “attacking” your own body may not sound like a good thing, there is no harm in keeping it on its toes. In fact, quite the opposite. Scientists from the Czech Republic immersed witting...