Category Archives: Crystal Palace pool

  1. the sauna is closed, long live the sunshine

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    30/04/2013 by Carl Reynolds

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    After an hour being mildly bleached and basted in Crystal Palace we wended over to Tooting Bec Lido for some …
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  2. again and again

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    21/03/2013 by Carl Reynolds

    Up and down, up and down. Round and round, round and round. With much light pouring in it’s some relief …
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  3. another day at the office

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    18/03/2013 by Carl Reynolds

    Mrs Ape and the generous expanse of Tooting Lido

    One of the advantages of being your own boss, is that you work when you want to work (mainly). For …
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  4. rollin’ rollin’

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    12/03/2013 by Carl Reynolds

    Pear and Almond Cake - yum

    Mrs Ape and I would have done our usual lido/indoor combo, but the traffic in sarf Londun this morning was …
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  5. endless undulation

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    11/03/2013 by Carl Reynolds

    Or how to learn butterfly the Shaw way. A day with Mrs Ape and four others in a basement in …
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  6. basking

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    05/03/2013 by Carl Reynolds

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    Freed from the antagonism of constant work and worry, many philosophers have mused on what us humans might endulge in. …
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  7. sun beam water

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    04/03/2013 by Carl Reynolds

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    Sun on the lido, sun sending shafts into Crystal Palace pool – a day of swimming in light. Metres and …
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  8. terrible twos

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    01/03/2013 by Carl Reynolds

    an endurance swimmer's endurance swimmer

    The weather forecast said no rain, so it was peeing it down. Met John Donald at Tooting for a cold …
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  9. where’s the sunshine?

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    26/02/2013 by Carl Reynolds

    grim lido

    Blimey, fiddlesticks and other curses. I am fed up swimming under brooding skies, with not a hint of blue, making …
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  10. a funny old week

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    12/01/2013 by Carl Reynolds

    Elizabeth dives in to fetch a stick!?

    Swimming indoors and outdoors is a little confusing, as I’ve not done it for ages. Prior to last week, I’d …
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