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Home > Archives for Boxing Day Dip

Archives for Boxing Day Dip

Peter Pan Christmas Day Race (Photo: Serpentine Swimming Club)

Festive swims and fancy dress dips

All over the UK, brave souls will be donning their trunks, swimming costumes and fancy dress outfits on Christmas Day and Boxing Day to take part in some chilly swims and dips…

Peter Pan Christmas Day Race (Photo: Serpentine Swimming Club)

Crazy Christmas Day swims and bonkers Boxing Day dips

All over the UK brave souls will be donning their trunks, swimming costumes and fancy dress outfits to take a chilly dip in the water this festive season…

Peter Pan Christmas Day Race (Photo: Serpentine Swimming Club)

Cheeky and chilly in the Christmas Day and Boxing Day dips

For some, Christmas time means donning the trunks, swimming costumes and fancy dress. So Contrary Life brings you a round-up of Boxing Day swims in the UK…

Curiosity of the Week

Normanton Church, a waterside wonder
Normanton Church by Karen Cann

Welcome to a new year, and a new Curiosity of the Week! Our first curiosity of 2021 is a sunken church. It’s also one of the UK’s finest hidden gem tourist attractions…

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Drama from a toilet cubicle
Overflow, Bush Theatre steaming show

This month, UK audiences can enjoy a streamed performance of Overflow, a heart-wrenching show played out in a club toilet…

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