Fearnley-Whittingstall: Hospitality will enjoy an extraordinary resurgence
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has just been for a swim. Not in a heated indoor pool, silly - those are for wimps, and anyway they’re still closed due to Covid. Instead, the celebrity chef-cum-television star-cum-campaigner has become one of those cold water swimming people.
He started two years ago with the gateway drug of cold showers and baths, and has since graduated to the real deal.
“I’ve already been in the pond this morning, which is currently about seven degrees,” he tells me over Skype from his East Devon home. “It’s quite nippy.”
By dropping boulders on the bottom of the seabed, Greenpeace is preventing trawlers from ploughing up vital habitat, says broadcaster and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall