Once again I've been dashing from pillar to post today but I was determined to have a daylight photo for a change - I've not had that luxury for almost two weeks now. I had a thought - there's water where I'm going - I'll do one there.

Back to back meetings this morning meant I scrambled out of the office with less than an hour to get to a client whose offices are around an hour from us. My journey was good, my speed was high and I arrived with about five minutes to spare.....I scrambled out of the car, getting mud all up the heels of my fabby new stiletto boots and this is the result!

My reason for wanting a pic of water for today was because I've just started a great book (well, as great as you can tell from the first fifty or so pages (Any Human Heart by William Boyd) - I was on the lookout for something uplifting and the reviews on the cover implied this would be it! Anyway, one of its opening thoughts was 'always swim naked'. How wonderful a thought.

You have to bear in mind I'm just about the most inhibited person ever with regard to body shape, since losing my younger skinny figure in favour of my now fuller, more rounded one. In my confident moments I describe myself as more like Nigella Lawson (she's the epitome of curvy sexiness so I have to be feeling VERY confident) than Liz Hurley (or whatever other skinny thing you care to mention) but more usually I describe myself as being a fattie. David hates me saying that but like I said, it's an inhibition thing!

Something caught my attention in this simple message though - imagine what it would be like to actually do it - swim naked - it sounds liberating, uplifting, exciting.....but all meant for someone else, not me. I'd never get my kit off in front of anyone (or even when there was the remotest danger of being overlooked). Shame because I really have been spellbound by the idea of it.

Jo (my naked housekeeper) who is not at all inhibited by nudity, has run naked on the beach in Jamaica - now there's another idea!

His (the narrator)'s next idea was the idea of honesty at all costs in a diary and that's what I try to do - maybe a bit too stridently. The book is essentially a diary throughout his life and he has claimed not to have revisited and modified in the light of later events or to have held back his real views. I think this is why the comment about swimming resonated so much with me - I felt connected about the diary references so the rest stuck.