The Outdoor Swimming in Breckland Facebook group has now reached an amazing 500 members, and is a wonderful swimming community for this area. To celebrate, we asked members to tell us why they swim and what they get out of it, and to share photos of their favourite swim places in Breckland. Continue reading Why we swim in Breckland waters →

National safety organisations initiate a campaign week every June to prevent drowning. This year they are encouraging people to take personal responsibility to stay safe by water or when swimming. As swimmers we urge people to safely enjoy swimming and playing around water. These are fun and healthy activities that can be safe in most locations by following advice: Be a responsible swimmer, know how to float if you fall in, check the risks, look after children and teach them about safety. Continue reading Drowning prevention →

This note is my understanding of the responsibility of landowners now for people who choose to swim in waters on their land, generally (very briefly), and in the current situation with Covid 19. I’ve included some advice to swimmers that landowners might choose to give out. It applies in England only. Updated 5 June. Continue reading To landowners on swimmers (England) 150520 →

… things you can do while staying at home or near to home – READ, LISTEN, LOOK, WATCH, DO, CONTRIBUTE. Including:

• landscape, places, rivers and other waters
• (SCROLL DOWN FOR) nature, wildlife – observing, learning, recording

Continue reading Online resources – places, nature, wildlife →

… things you can do while staying at home or near to home – READ, LISTEN, LOOK, WATCH, DO, CONTRIBUTE.  Including:

• swimming advice and swim-related
• (SCROLL DOWN FOR) swim fitness, exercise, wellbeing, mental health, walking and other recreation

Continue reading Online resources – swim advice + exercise & health →

… things you can do while staying at home or near to home – READ, LISTEN, LOOK, WATCH, DO, CONTRIBUTE.  Including:

• history, heritage, museums, oral history, make history now
• (SCROLL DOWN FOR) photography, film, video, storytelling, art, education

Continue reading Online resources – heritage & the arts →

The content on this post has now moved to this page in the OS Brecks section of the website:

https://www.imogensriverswims.co.uk/blog/os-brecks-2/outdoor-swimming-photos-or-stories-to-share/

A selection of some of the many wonderful resources that people have been putting online to help keep us interested, informed, involved while staying at home, including heritage, music, landscape, stained glass … More added from time to time …

For other resources, see three new posts: Online resources – heritage & the arts and Online resources – swim advice + exercise & health and Online resources – places, nature, wildlife Continue reading Cultural Online resources →

Staying in (or at least at home) is the new going out, and loads of organisations are putting together useful, fun and interesting resources on everything, including relating to outdoor swimming, and to history, art, culture, wildlife…. Here are a few links, but most are now in three new posts: Online resources – heritage & the arts and Online resources – swim advice + exercise & health and Online resources – places, nature, wildlife Continue reading Stay at Home resources for swimmers →

When, where and how people swam or bathed – and what they wore – has changed over time, and here is one fascinating account from Wikipedia in a history of swimwear. Continue reading Swimming costumes and history →