Tag Archives: lido
How do you pronounce ‘lido’?
H2Open magazine, July 2011 If you’ve never been quite sure how to pronounce the word ‘lido’, or even exactly what it means, rest assured that you are not the first to have this problem. In fact, these are – even now, almost 100 years after the name was first used on British soil – contentious […]
Swimming in the snow at London Fields lido
Snow can rekindle a childlike enthusiasm in even the most Scrooge-like of city dwellers – and when, during recent heavy snowfall, Hackney became Antarctica for the day, swimmers at London Fields lido couldn’t believe their luck. Lidos tend to be happy places anyway, but whoops filled the air as people rejoiced at being in this […]
David Cameron: outdoor swimmer
When David Cameron entered Downing Street he may have felt he was thrown in the deep end. If the stress gets too much, perhaps he should go for an outdoor swim – evidence suggests that it’s a habit that the new Prime Minister is not unacquainted with. Cameron, who is the patron of Chipping Norton […]
