Tag: swimming
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A Helpful Safety Guide To Public Swimming Pool Etiquette For The Illiterate
Dear Person Who Cannot Read/Swim, As a staunch supporter of community public services, I have commandeered myself to remind you of the swimming etiquette in our local public pools. For while the lifeguards are confident to chat for hours with Kardashian-esque 20-30 year old, svelte swimmers in itsy-bitsy bikinis erect signs with suggested swimming styles/speeds…
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Do All Relationships Become A Competition?
Day ‘ALREADY COUNTING DOWN’ of the holidays and I still haven’t killed the old man, but it’s interesting how much there is still to learn about your partner, even after thirty years. It turns out that the life sentence of twenty-one years of marriage, thus far, hadn’t fully revealed to me the full extent of…
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Middle Aged Woman Stalked by Sharks In Sydney
English: A Caribbean reef shark photographed at Roatan, Honduras. Deutsch: Grauer Riffhai (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) bei Roatan, Honduras (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It was a good weekend. The sun was shining and the sky was that beautiful clear-blue that typifies a Sydney summer’s day. I discovered that grilled sourdough, avocado, feta and lime is not the gross…
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Swimwear Shopping for Middle-Aged Women
Fanny Durrack (left) and Mina Wylie, Australian swimmers (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I went to buy new swimmers yesterday. Shopping for a new swimming costume when you’re over 40 must be up there with admitting how much weight you haven’t lost at a Weightwatchers meeting; in terms of excruciating embarassment. Because designers are still not catering for middle-aged…
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Public Swimming Pools – Ten New Rules
swimming pool (Photo credit: freefotouk) A polite message to my fellow swimmers, because it has come to my attention that when one swims to a near Olympian standard in a public pool, it is unfortunately necessary to share one’s water space with members of the public, who may not, necessarily, share the same rigid discipline…
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New Year, New Body
A swimmer swimming (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Now that the boxes have been unpacked, the mail has been redirected and we’ve discovered our new favourite local eateries, I’m running out of excuses for not doing any exercise. January is traditionally the month where I make another feeble attempt to retrieve my wedding day body. New year,…
Louisa Simmonds 