a thousand words

I don't know if my picture is worth a thousand words - a thousand calories, more like.

Thank you for the excellent suggestions about swimming culture. I really want to swim in London Fields Lido despite the shiver-inducing photos in the book mentioned, and I really want to see the Hockney exhibition before it closes, and I shall listen to Midweek. I once tried to read The Swimming Pool Library but didn't enjoy it - maybe I should try again.