I am slow on the uptake

[triskellian]

I have been living here for thirteen years, complaining about how far away we are from the sea, and I'm only just starting to realise that we've got quite a lot of river, and some of it is swimmable

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[secretrebel]

O-kay. Well, watching all those episodes of House will come in handy when we need to diagnose you with Lyme disease...

[bateleur]

At last, a reliable way to tell you and triskellian apart!

Q: Ask the test subject whether she would like to swim in the Thames.

* Enthusiastic bouncing and squeeing indicates a triskellian.
* Look of abject horror and/or fleeing indicates a secretrebel.

[secretrebel]

LOL!

Well, quite.

[undyingking]

And there was Weil's disease in the Cherwell, dunno about the Isis (but you'd want to watch out below the confluence I guess), when I was living in Ox.

[pepper_field]

Ignore the doom-mongers! I think it's a lovely thing to do. Just don't swallow any of the water. Or get run down by an out of control punt (they're DANGEROUS!).

[triskellian]

No punts in that bit of river, although a motor boat went past not long after I got out of the water. Still, I'm pretty sure I'd have noticed in plenty of time...

[chrisvenus]

Funnily enough this comes a mere few weeks after a friend of mine took up river swimming... I think he mentioned having joined facebook purely because there is a group there to organise this sort of thing... Want me to look up details?

[triskellian]

As it happens, I already know who he is, because I spotted someone else joining that group, went to look, and saw someone in Oxford with whom I have mutual friends ;-)

[chrisvenus]

Ah, excellent. Well that saves me a certain amount of effort having to go look things up anyway. :)