John writes, “I hope to swim Lake Geneva in July next year. It is 40 miles long and will take me a day and half of non-stop swimming. If I achieve this, it will (I think) propel me into a particularly unassailably unique place in the history of mankind as I will be probably the first, and last, Old Stoic and Baronet to bag that one. I am raising money for the Brain Tumour Charity with donations allowed at www.justgiving.com/fundraising/johnsmadswim. Here is an unsightly photograph of me at the ponds at South Cerney where I have been training.”
