Happy New Year (1/365?)

Happy New Year, everyone. Let us hope it's an improvement on 2020.

I am thinking about trying to do the daily posts thing, in an effort to actually get back into writing/talking more about stuff and engage a bit more with the community here. It may well not stick.

My year started with the coldest swim yet (probably 4.something degrees; my thermometer said 4.9, L's said 4.0, various other people had something in between because apparently the number of different estimates is equal to the number of thermometers present). I have a new wetsuit jacket, which is thicker than the old one and has long sleeves instead of short, but I'm not sure I felt any warmer than I do in the old one. It was also really, really busy, hopefully because lots of people wanted a New Year's Day dip rather than because they're all planning to swim regularly, because it just felt like Too Many People. I'm glad we did it, though. (One of my three had persuaded another friend to swim with her, so we had two twos, mostly keeping separate other than brief exchanges of greetings in the water and baked goods out of it.)

Only two more days of holiday left and the prospect of work is starting to loom rather :-(