Lambeth Council has confirmed that Brockwell Lido, including its outdoor pool, gym and café, will transfer to council management from July 1, with the site to be run through Active Lambeth.

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

And to think I nearly didn’t go. I’ve never been a morning person. I have friends who can sleep for six hours a night and get up at mythical hours like 5am and function perfectly well. If I don’t g…

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Sea pools, sauna days, lava flows and rotating water slides

It’s a day of extremes. It’s extremely sunny, which is a welcome change from a week of the standard London Christmas climate of grey skies and wet pavements. It’s extremely windy which only becomes…

Storm Darragh has loosened its grip on the Park but the memory of it is still there in the occasional gust, so when I arrive at the Lido I nearly turn right into the changing room. A cold wind when…

The Park is grey, wet…. and warm. A good few degrees warmer than the last couple of days of sun and frost. I walk my way past the Parkrun stragglers dragging themselves to the finish line, and find…

It’s the last day of the excruciating diet I’ve been on and the second day of frost. The Park is bright and sunny again, perhaps a little warmer than yesterday, with no mist to add atmosphere. Ther…

The sun is out over the Park and if God is English she is also definitely a Londoner. The place has never looked finer. Storm Bert has caused billions of damage, probably, but it’s also left me a n…

It’s day two of the great return to the water so I trudge down to the Lido through Storm Bert’s huffing and puffing, wearing my DryRobe for the first time this winter. If you’ve never encountered a…