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Well done to Jeremy and Andy for braving the
Brighton sea on Christmas morning.
We watched the crazy folk going in
last year, on what was an unusually
warm day, and Jeremy said he thought he’d give it a go in 2003.
I think Andy was talked or bullied into it
the night before, but I may be wrong.
I assumed he was joking about going in wearing the Santa costume.
Once fortified with mulled wine, they dived in and
did the required full submersion and at least five strokes — this
being Kirsty’s definition of the minimum needed
to qualify as “going for a swim on Christmas morning”. This all
happened to be before the official Christmas day swimmers
got going, thereby inadvertently grabbing the attention
of the crowd on the beach, including the press.
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Update – more photos are now available here.