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...Alfie Nickerson, 28, comes bombing along a tree-lined lane on his trusty “gator”, wearing a colourful striped T-shirt – a girlfriend’s cast-off – and a pair of bright-orange swim shorts that have seen better...
...They’re roomy and practical yet effortlessly chic – French-style poster girls Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot were often seen carrying one in the crook of their arm....
...This July he launched Red Jane, an ambitious bakery with interiors that resemble an art gallery (a collaboration with his friend the celebrated designer Michael Anastassiades), in a midcentury industrial...
...The “invigorating” charity swim off the beaches of his hometown of Youghal, County Cork, is an annual tradition when Doyle is spending Christmas in Ireland, as he will this year....
...In the 1960s, you could watch Jane Goodall grooming a chimpanzee while he contentedly tucked into some bananas....
...Bunting stays in caravans, B&Bs, a decaying once-grand hotel and, in every iteration of chilly, mud-coloured water, she swims....
...Jane Gottschalk, the creative director of Perfect Moment thinks the visibility of cold water sports and swimming online, as it grows in popularity, is encouraging others to dive in....
...With debts piling up following the pandemic and energy price rises of between 100 and 150 per cent since 2019, that closure number is likely to be much higher, said Swim England’s chief executive Jane Nickerson...
...She’d come across the magazine at a newsagent roughly 18 years ago, after an early morning swim. “I was absolutely fascinated. It was like [my] Damascus moment,” she later told me with a laugh....
...After the shoot, we joined her for a swim in the ocean. Philip Seymour HoffmanNew York, NY, 2002 I made the portraits of him upstairs in my building....
...Even a voiceover by Julie Andrews can’t make that sound like Jane Austen....
...Jane Nickerson, chief executive of Swim England, the sport’s governing body, said she was “petrified” that large numbers of children would leave primary school unable to swim 25 metres after a year out of...
...The 100 “chambers” and living quarters are dingy, and the sailors who originally lived here were chosen for their inability to swim in order to prevent their escape....
...The problem is that some people have been looked after, while others have been left to sink or swim....
...My own suggestion — “good prospects” — was, along with someone else’s “betterment”, rejected as “a bit Jane Austen”....
...“Families need a pool in which younger children can learn to swim and older ones can learn to dive,” he says....
...He’s currently planning to do 30 wild swims before he turns 30 in May to raise both awareness of mental-health issues and funds for the charity Mind, via his Instagram @joshwaterlogged – named after Roger...
...Meanwhile the lack of a significant anniversary does not seem to have deterred Jane Austen fans: a 10-day festival is planned in Bath in September, there is a nine-day festival in Hampshire in June, and...
...As so often, Paddy would have been happy to dive in and swim against the tide. miranda.green@ft.com...
...It can’t be any coincidence either that Chanel has just announced its acquisition of the British men’s swim brand Orlebar Brown. They acquired the French women’s swimwear label Eres in 1996....
...Alexander Gilmour is associate editor of House & Home; @AIMGilmour Illustration by Cat O’Neil Next week: Jane Owen’s ‘Provincial life’...
...This really will be our last swim of the year. Maybe. The waterline is traced by fine red roots being tugged downstream....
...The Dry, by Jane Harper, Little, Brown, RRP£12.99/Flatiron Books, RRP$25.99, 352 pages...
...Four or five Sprotbrough guests could swim in it side by side, ladies and men together. Elsewhere, swimmers in gardens were naked, usually screened by evergreen shrubs....
...Jane Owen is the editor of House & Home Next week: Alexander Gilmour’s London Life...
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