Query: when did swimming outdoors, not in managed pools, become "wild swimming"? It's just one of those phrases that really annoys me, making something ordinary somehow pretentious. I've never been wild swimming, but I've swum in the sea, lakes, and rivers around the UK. I suppose that "we went to Filey/Bolton Abbey/Llandudno, parked the car, and got out the rubber dinghy" sounds less glam. Though I imagine that wherever and however you go it is absolutely freezing.

I seem to be a bit grumpy tonight.