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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20061201
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The most exciting recent news for me has been the reopening of London Fields Lido, an Olympic-sized heated swimming pool in Hackney. It's the steam in the freezing air that stirs me. Years ago, with the proceeds [c]of Mary Queen of Scots, I built a small outdoor swimming pool in the north of Scotland which was heavily heated - well, it needed to be - and we regularly spent New Year hogmanaying in and out of the pool, the rising steam making it like the opening scene of Rheingold.
Swimming is one of my great passions, although I confess I practise swanlike swimming, head out of ...
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