A middle-aged man wearing Speedoes and carrying a camera will always attract strange looks

I have always been struck by the comparisons between swimming, blogging and photography.

	Swimming	Blogging	Photography
Seems easy before you start	√	√	√
Hey, hey, look at me everyone	√	√	√
Hey, I’m pretty good at this	√	√	√
Takes more time that you realise	√	√	√
Oh my god, no, I’m terrible∗	√	√	√
All is I need to buy now is just this one thing…	√	√	√
Costs more than you expect	√	√	√
Please don’t look at what I am doing	√		√
Best done in Speedoes	√	√
Looks good while wearing Speedoes		√
Actually costs waay more than you expect	√	√	√
I will never, ever, be good at this	√	√	√
Takes more time than you have	√	√	√
Just keep going	√	√	√
Wait. What was that about doing it in Speedoes?∗∗	√	√	√

∗∗ Deirdre is getting really fed up of me changing into my Speedoes to write this blog and sitting around mostly naked. And that time that the Postman∗∗∗ looked in the window…∗See “What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect?”

*** WordPress wanted to change Postman to “mail-carrier“. I must tell Michael the Postie about that.