Kathryn Ferguson

Hi, Rob.

So nice to be here.

Thank you for a beautiful intro.

We're very lucky.

It's great.

So how did you end up in Margate?

Well, I moved to Margate 10 years ago.

I moved, I'd say it was the week after Brexit.

My partner and I had been planning to move for five months prior and were very excited, disbelieving that Brexit could possibly happen.

And literally the week that we were set to move down here, it did happen.

And we were suddenly excited.

fish out of water we've been in london for 16 years and wanted to try somewhere new and had various friends that had moved and had sold us the stories of the power of the sea swimming and the turner gallery and i guess this like thriving artistic community that was starting to form here way back in 2016 and even before that we were considered the second wave

When we arrived, there'd been an earlier one of people arriving from London.

And yeah, we got here and we're so thrilled to be here.

But as I said, Brexit happened just before we arrived.

So there was just this real rub of like arriving into this exciting new moment in our lives and excitement about what this community could be.

But then this massive change.

realization and rub of what was happening politically around us.

So to counter that, other than rant about it to lots of friends, was I began swimming in the sea.

I went to Walpole Bay Tidal Pool and I started swimming every day in the water.