It was 7 degrees today as I walked to the swim and my hands were frozen. Not as frozen as my feet were afterwards. Luckily the water temperature is holding out for us, still above 18 degrees every day, today was 18.4. Everyone is ticking that swim box to collect the winter swim badge, with...

Musings from …. It was bloody cold this morning……6 degrees at Cammeray and & 7 degrees at Manly…… Cold enough to ‘freeze a badge of a winter B&B er….!’ The Drinks crew was a little light on for numbers,  but lucky us …the outside air temperature was making it’s magic under the waters of Cabbabage...

Happy Friday. Happy end of financial year. WWW – possibly the most recognised acronym in the world – yes winter without a wetsuit or winter with a wetsuit ! I have also heard other versions of what the acronym stands for too but these are the main ones. And here are some swimmers who agree...

Seems we formed a little group that has the same design principles that won a Nobel Prize.   In 2008 Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for Economics for her study of Prosocial groups like ours. The word prosocial refers to anything—such as an attitude, belief, behavior, or institution or swim group—that is directed toward...

The late sunrise and dim light from the beach front were unable to hide the fact that the tide was very low. In fact it was only .34m high at 6.23am. so the lucky 6.30’s literally walked to the point.       Jill and John preparing to set out     Shelley, Guy, Dorsett,...

                                                                                Have a great week everyone. Brian And now the news and upper management business. Important...

No BnB camera today, so no blog. Here’s what it looked like from dry land…           Important notice! TRIVIA NIGHT 2017 Note from Management: to clear up any confusion, the 2017 Quiz Night is not a B&B event.  It is an event run outside of B&B by two B&B members, Roz...

A chilly 8 degrees outside and a fairly reasonable (for Winter) 19 degrees in the water, but nonetheless I was very happy to get out after half an hour. With that in mind, it’s worth revisiting yesterday’s blog/news and giving a massive shout out to  Michael Tey, who spent eight straight hours, during the night (12am...

Happy Saturday everyone! Yes we are officially on the other side (you might say the back side if you were here on Tuesday) of the solstice and  our side of the planet turns sunwards once more. If you were thinking the cold weather is over, well I’m sorry, it’s not over yet but there is...

One way and another I have spent a lot of time in the waiting rooms of doctors and dentists and day surgeries recently and have read up big on all relevant celebrity gossip incl on the wrong bold and beautiful anniversary. Leaving the science articles on DNA and genes. What a great idea in due...