Reposted by Lisa Allsop
I Went Wild Swimming And It Was Bloody Horrible
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[Title panel of a comic by Stephen Collins]
I Went Wild Swimming And It Was Bloody Horrible
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[a young, dramatic, red haired woman speaks a voiceover]:
I was sad because of the sad thing.
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“Try wild swimming”, said my editor. You could write an article, and bang on about it online”.
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I couldn’t do that. I was a person who liked the warm and not the cold!
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But I went cos y’know, content.
[show her entering a miserable looking pond]
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The cold water lapped against my sad ankles, interestingly.
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The cold water crept up my sad skin, for several paragraphs.
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I was *alive, alive, alive*, like a journalist going in a pond.
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Soon the shock subsided, leaving a cold, hard, gleaming, immutable truth at the very core of my inner soul:
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This was bloody horrible.
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I saw a rat and a poo, and got out.
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[On the land again now, next to pond]
Then I opened my laptop.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreid7qqvvk7qv4puhf67cxau6tvbnzwxac5u4zjwpefhzdmfpsfl5ie)
Lisa Allsop
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Owner of two border collies, including Blodwen who is a deaf & visually impaired double merle (@blodwenbach on Insta) Back home in Norfolk after 32ish years. It was a good decision 👌🏻
