Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

You obviously told me this because I am expected to do something about it, put it right somehow. But I can't! Now, if I were a woman, I'd be happy just to sympathise. As a man, I just feel powerless.

You're supposed to just listen. I read somewhere that women know you're supposed to just listen ... and men are confused because they think they're supposed to fix it

Just listen.... then tell us something annoying about your life - and we listen.

GDB2222

Can't just listen. I'm doomed to travel the world fixing things.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can't just listen. I'm doomed to travel the world fixing things.

Hang on, I'm making a list...

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can't just listen. I'm doomed to travel the world fixing things.

Still with your cinnamon problem. I've just thought the clever thing to do would have been to sneak out and buy some ground cinnamon. Then present it in the bowl along with a few shards of the cinnamon stick for effect.

lostinrates

I'm ridiculously excited. I just checked radio times on line and there is just starting a show about wild swimming. I take slight issue with them saying its a new craze...I've been wild swimming my entire life!!!

ninky_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm ridiculously excited. I just checked radio times on line and there is just starting a show about wild swimming. I take slight issue with them saying its a new craze...I've been wild swimming my entire life!!!

there were two shows on the subject last year. one with dr alice roberts up the duff and therefore limited in where the risk assessment would allow her to bathe which was frustrating.

lostinrates

ninky wrote: »

there were two shows on the subject last year. one with dr alice roberts up the duff and therefore limited in where the risk assessment would allow her to bathe which was frustrating.

Thanks,(and welcome to the NP thread.:))I've not seen them or heard of them.:) I've never understood why Brits are so squeamish about wild swimming other than the sea (and mainly brave Londoners in the ponds and serpentine).

I'm aware water hasn't always been so clean, and there are risks, but still...swimming pools cannot compare. River swimming is THE best.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm ridiculously excited. I just checked radio times on line and there is just starting a show about wild swimming. I take slight issue with them saying its a new craze...I've been wild swimming my entire life!!!

Me too. As a kid in Australia we used to swim in the local creeks a lot. Don't know if Gen could give us an update, but as a kid pretty much everyone went wild swimming over there. ETA, for that matter, we used to do it when we moved back to the UK. Tie a rope over a tree and swing into the water and jump, yummy....

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Me too. As a kid in Australia we used to swim in the local creeks a lot. Don't know if Gen could give us an update, but as a kid pretty much everyone went wild swimming over there.

Yep, in NZ too. I even swam in the Whanganui where its hardly ''idyllic clear'' in fact, you couldn't see your own hands, but a river is a river, and there were lots of ...pontoons, is that the word? where people obviously left towels....

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Yep, in NZ too. I even swam in the Whanganui where its hardly ''idyllic clear'' in fact, you couldn't see your own hands, but a river is a river, and there were lots of ...pontoons, is that the word? where people obviously left towels....

I got a real shock when I went to my first ever public swimming pool. They had these things called changing rooms. If someone hadn't told me I'd probably have been standing on the side somewhere wrapping a towel around myself while changing. I'm not really an exhibitionist. Honest.