Pleased to say that I completed my RLSS Open Water Lifeguard training at Beckenham lake earlier this week (including an additional Automated External Defibrillator training qualification) learning crucial first aid, CPR and water-based rescue skills.

An excellent few days at my second (and the 50th anniversary of!) @leisure-studies.bsky.social conference in York.

The interdisciplinary nature of LSA always makes for great presentations and discussions around the borderlands.

And thanks to all that came to Tom and I’s workshop and engaged!

Arrived in York on a gorgeous day for the @leisure-studies.bsky.social conference

‘Researching the leisure we practice: unpacking and understanding embodied ethnographic methods’

Tom Critchley and I are running a workshop at LSA 2025 next week in York. If you’re there come along and talk participatory, entangled methods!

Some of the other (minimal) photos I took: citizen science water testing workshop, scale model of the Rijnhaven’s grand plans, and a couple of presentation and panel highlights

Inspiring few days at the first ever Swimmable Cities summit in Rotterdam. More conferences with morning and evening swims in the programming please!

A Shadwell story: the swan and the turtle (/terrapin?)

Blurb from her website is fascinating

Bathing by Tower Bridge, 2018 by fine art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten. Found in the Guardian this morning

A couple of stand out pieces beyond the Tox and Fume interviews, great to see Past Tense get in there

Finally got my hands on a copy of the 10foot-edited special issue. A great read so far

Excited to say I am co-curating a new project 'The Museum of Polluted Leisure' with Clifton Evers and Tom Critchley. The collection archives encounters where pollution meets leisure and leisure meets pollution.

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Photo: Martin Parr