At the start of spring I got sent a Finisterre wetsuit set geared towards wild swimming, and realised that to review it properly I'd need to test it when it was still cold. I ventured to an outdoor swimming club based at a local stretch of river, and it was not the most successful trip. I'll say at the point that, being designed more for flexibility than full-coverage insulation, the wetsuit jacket and bottoms on test included arms but no legs. As I gritted my teeth and set off I didn't twig that I was swimming against the flow of the river, and for the first few minutes I genuinely thought that I was finding it so difficult because my body was shutting down from the cold, and I was going to die. I got out not long after.