What a grand cover to the 1950 Official Guide to Margate, the resort on the Kent Coast. #holidays #illustration @seasideferry.bsky.social ↘️ flic.kr/p/2rso53b

🚨 BREAKING: 1,000 litres of “BLOOD” spills from a Shell platform in the North Sea. Activists just installed a giant piece of protest art by world-famous artist Anish Kapoor to symbolise the DAMAGE oil giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.

This is a fabulous celebration of lidos - and thanks for the mention for Future Lidos, @seasideferry.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Studio Octopi architects and the Friends of Tarlair for winning the Gold Award in the Conservation category of the Scottish Design Awards last night. More info and beautiful pix in the link below. 👇 www.scottishdesignawards.com/2025/conserv...

Testing the facilities at the #SwimmableCities summit venue. Rijnhaven & Lantaren Venster, #Rotterdam.

Scenes from the liquid piazza in the #Rijnhaven, #Rotterdam. #SwimmableCities summit kicks off Sunday, #WorldWaterDay.

On Sunday Swimmable Cities holds the world’s first urban swimming summit. Today this pops up. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

TimeOut features @hilsealido.bsky.social and the vision looks absolutely amazing!! www.timeout.com/uk/news/the-...

Few better ways to kick off the day … choice of open air sea water pools (so I did both with sauna in between!) - Guernsey

Been at the Design Museum in London this evening taking part in a panel discussion linked to the Splash! exhibition on swimming and swimwear. Great to be there with fellow @batsfordbooks.bsky.social authors @chrisromerlee.bsky.social and Christopher Beanland. Talked #lidos #seaside #Butlins etc 😊

Lead on, Macduff: how the tide turned for Aberdeenshire’s #ArtDeco lido at Tarlair @theguardian.com story on community action that's led to this pavilion's restoration. Next stage is to reopen the adjoining sea pools 🏊 @future-lidos.bsky.social 💚 #ArtDecoCentenary www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Wonderful feature on the community-led rebirth of the extraordinary Tarlair Pools - www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Lisbon III

Lisbon II

Lisbon

What a moron.

Thanks, Michael!

Salthill, Galway. Somewhere nice for the summer.

#Whitstable delivered.

Beautiful Bath for @alexbollen.bsky.social’s #Motherdom hometown book launch. @versobooks.bsky.social Thank you to Matthew & the team @toppingsbath.bsky.social for a superb evening.

#Amsterdam. Conference #2. Illegal swims in the #Amstel. www.swimmablecities.org

Paris. Conference. Time before.

@newscientist.com & @pennysarchet.bsky.social review of #motherdom - how bad science provides easy answers for “big problems like poverty and inequality.” @versobooks.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535331-800-how-neuroscience-and-bad-studies-have-fuelled-intensive-parenting/

Today is publication day. #Motherdom officially enters the world. @versobooks.bsky.social My book takes on the Good Mother myths which shame women and divert our attention away from the relationships and resources children need to flourish. www.versobooks.com/products/328...

There's not long to go before @alexbollen.bsky.social will be at the bookshop celebrating the launch of Motherdom. With over 20 years of research under her belt, we're looking forward to an insightful & educational evening. 📚 Join us Wed 12th March: goldenharebooks.com/products/mot...

Magnificent. #Worthing #Lido in 1957. @future-lidos.bsky.social

If you #LoveLidos too, please help us support these vital pools and campaigns by donating to our Go Fund Me appeal - www.gofundme.com/f/future-lidos

For the day that’s in it, we’re celebrating the love that communities have for lidos, and the grassroots activism that sustains, revives or creates these joyous facilities for us all. First up: Dublin City Lido. www.dublincitylido.com. #LoveLidos 🩵

@future-lidos.bsky.social need your help! 🏊‍♀️ They support over 170 lidos across the UK and Ireland, helping to create, revive, sustain and develop pools and bring the joy of swimming to all. However, they need your help to continue their amazing work! Help here: www.gofundme.com/f/future-lidos

#Scarborough & #York day trip for a new project with North #Yorkshire Council & a local community #swimming club. #northyorkshire #southbay #northbay #tidalpool #seapools

At #RoyalVictoriaDock pondering how so much #water has seen so little reuse, in so many years. There is hope, but only because I’m an optimist. #swimmablecities www.swimmablecities.org

After 10+ years of shouting about a swimmable #Thames & providing solutions for achieving it, I so appreciated the opportunity to give evidence to @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the London Assembly Environment Committee today. It’s time to take action! #SwimmableCities

First swim of 2025 (a 6.4° brrr) followed by a walking tour of 3 churches to warm up. - St Columba’s (Church of Scotland), Pont Street. 1955. Sir Edward Maufe. Austere! Softened by two intimate chapels and some good details.

The rock houses of England's last cave people. #kinveredge www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sea Pools, including Future Lidos members Saltcoats and Tarlair, are celebrated in Swimming With the Tide, an interview with @chrisromerlee.bsky.social on the Culture of Bathing substack - cultureofbathing.substack.com/p/swimming-w...

Today our mini-🧵 of 2024 In Lidos reaches August. 👇 As always, we start with a reminder of our Go Fund Me appeal, which will help power the lido renaissance into 2025 - please share, and donate if you can - www.gofundme.com/f/future-lidos

Superb piece by @charleswright57.bsky.social that tells it as it is. We do swim in the Thames, the ecology is good and yet there remains major challenges ahead to meet the Mayor’s new policy on a ‘swimmable Thames’ See swimmablecities.org for more on urban swimming.

Sea swimming campaigners Swim The Wight commission initial designs from @chrisromerlee.bsky.social of Studio Octopi architects, for a new sea pool on the Isle of Wight.

In today's mini-🧵 of 2024 In Lidos, we reach the half-way point. 👇 First, a reminder of our Go Fund Me appeal - please support if you can, to help keep the momentum going into 2025 - www.gofundme.com/f/future-lidos

Slim Aarons, Christmas Swim, 1954.

Shit show & while all this goes on the ecology and risk of illness hangs over the rivers and swimmers. Grrr.

An ongoing thread covering our 2024 activities @future-lidos.bsky.social - & don’t forget the Go Fund Me appeal to keep Future Lidos campaigning for the future of lidos 😉 - www.gofundme.com/f/future-lidos

Stephen Willats, Drawing for a Project No. 12, 1965 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1126250

How many affordable homes could be built for £23-46m? And did she really want this spent on a memorial? 🤔 competitions.malcolmreading.com/queenelizabe...

#Miskolctapolca Cave #Baths. The concrete shell was built 1969. The cave bath became popular after the Ottoman occupation due to its natural 30° water flowing through the caves. You been here @thehighlineguy.bsky.social?

Interview with @chrisromerlee.bsky.social for Culture of Bathing Substack feat. #Saltcoats Bathing Pond & #Tarlair Outdoor #Pool both from the FL network. Mention of our appeal too (www.gofundme.com/f/future-lidos) Get donating! Thanks Robbie, Elena and Jane. open.substack.com/pub/cultureo...

If you like outdoor swimming (or even just the idea of it!) have a look at the work of @future-lidos.bsky.social who do splendid work supporting campaigns (like www.otleylido.com) - they are crowdfunding to support this work and would welcome the oxygen of publicity gofund.me/6c278c07

All I want for Christmas is.. a local, public lido? The Future Lidos network has almost 40 current groups and projects across the UK and Ireland seeking to restore or create a lido. Our NHL funded toolkit has a wealth of information to dive in to, be inspired and hatch a plan. www.futurelidos.org

AND! we need to engage politically at the national scale too (esp in UK) to insist on the value of children’s play & mobility - which is why this work by @thetcpa.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social & allies - which I missed the launch of yesterday - is so vitally important bsky.app/profile/thet...