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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    lemonjelly wrote: »
    In Woolacombe last year I went properly into the sea for the first time in years. Properly as in not paddling, but neck deep (or almost drowning when a wave comes along!)

    & I have to say it was the most ridiculous fun! I properly regressed into childhood and buzzed off being in the waves, and the moving ocean, & being temporarily drowned.:)

    There's nothing like being hit on the head by a lump of Atlantic to cheer you up, clear your head, and so forth. Great fun.
    lostinrates wrote: »
    I'm afraid I'm with NDG's oh on British beaches. I think they are beautiful, I'll swim if I'm there ( I love wild swimming and don't really mind that its cold so long as I can get warm afterwards) but......well...I've lived on beautiful sandy beaches with clear Caribbean seas. Its a hard comparison. And tbh......I wouldn't even live by them again. I love fresh water, and would live my a river or a lake in a heart beat, but the sea....meh...the salt and the sand wrecks your cars and causes damage and its always windy and messes up your hair.

    I love the IDEA, but its one of those ideas I know is fr other people. I suppose I rate this as the same thing as a beautiful sibling NDG. ;)


    But it is so wonderfully exhilarating, and then having a hot bath and dry clothes and a nice dinner is a fantastic contrast.


    lemonjelly wrote: »
    I'm going to see David Tennant in Richard 2 at the RSC tonight... :)

    Have fun!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »




    But it is so wonderfully exhilarating, and then having a hot bath and dry clothes and a nice dinner is a fantastic contrast.





    !
    Doesn't make me want to live by it. And a fresh water source has the same exhilaration, none of the salt. Or sand.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    lostinrates wrote: »
    Doesn't make me want to live by it. And a fresh water source has the same exhilaration, none of the salt. Or sand.

    No waves. And the surfing is rubbish.

    I don't think I'd necessarily want to live next to it, but for holidays, and swimming without a wetsuit, bring it on.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    ...
    I'd build a fireproof safe/room where all my important stuff were kept except when I was getting it out. It wouldn't need to be large, just 3' cubed inside should fit most people's needs for essential/personal/sentimental.
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,211 Forumite
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    I'm not sure I'm properly British, I hate cold water whether it is the sea, swimming pool or a shower; even thinking about anything below 35 degrees makes me uncomfortable....
    I think....
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    you need to make an early decision whether to stay or go.
    Barring looting ... I'd say going is never a wrong choice.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    No waves. And the surfing is rubbish.

    I don't think I'd necessarily want to live next to it, but for holidays, and swimming without a wetsuit, bring it on.

    I like waves, but also like their absence.

    I have never surfed. I used to free dive. ( also on the list of brain no no's )
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    michaels wrote: »
    I'm not sure I'm properly British, I hate cold water whether it is the sea, swimming pool or a shower; even thinking about anything below 35 degrees makes me uncomfortable....

    Will you retire here?
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Are you going anywhere exciting?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Combo of dentist and care visits post operation.

    Ah. So not exactly bon voyage, then.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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