Slow Living - Doing It Old Style!

Florafauna

@moorviews the lido is fed by a natural spring. It's beautiful and unchlorinated. As its thermal, the temperature is always at least 15 degrees. At this time of year , I manage around 15-20 minutes. I've been again tonight and am slowly warming up. In January, I swam whilst it was snowing a couple of times. But it has lifeguards and we are all always very safe

Brie

Florafauna said:

@moorviews the lido is fed by a natural spring. It's beautiful and unchlorinated. As its thermal, the temperature is always at least 15 degrees. At this time of year , I manage around 15-20 minutes. I've been again tonight and am slowly warming up. In January, I swam whilst it was snowing a couple of times. But it has lifeguards and we are all always very safe

I'm fascinated!!  I've been in some natural springs but most have been quite warm.

Cherryfudge

That lido sounds wonderful! Imagining swimming while it snows... so long as you're warm enough, it sounds quite magical.

I'm helping with a children's holiday club this week which isn't slow living but it's very grounding and I love it. I'm very pleased to have mastered the Dinosaur Stomp . Not a lot else will be happening till this week is complete, but my pepper seeds have germinated and today I planted a few coriander seeds (and in MSE fashion am kicking myself for not just using seeds from the spice rack, surely they must be viable)?

Wednesday2000

I did think again about joining the wild swimming group, but then I read about a local man saying that he swims in this area and how polluted by sewage the sea is! It seems like every time I consider it something puts me off.

My husband got a refund for his train ticket as he hasn't been using it for months as he is off sick. That was a nice surprise to get in our bank account, over £1200 they owed us. I had almost forgotten about it. I was also thinking about trying cryotherapy. I was just looking at how much it costs locally. I did a search on here just now and someone said she got an unpleasant reaction to it! Maybe that is a bad sign.

I am going to go for a walk today in the park as I need to get some steps in as I haven't hit 10,000 a day this week. I should use my treadmill and finish my current book too. I am cooking us a meal later.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Florafauna

@Wednesday2000 the thought of swimming in sewage is hideous. The water companies really should not be allowed to get away with it. Last time I went to Roker Beach, my daughter didn't want us to swim as she said the sewage report was bad. I agreed grumpily as I couldn't see anything and thought she was over reacting. However, two days later there was a massive ecoli outbreak that was sea related
So awful

carolbee

Florafauna said:

@Wednesday2000 the thought of swimming in sewage is hideous. The water companies really should not be allowed to get away with it. Last time I went to Roker Beach, my daughter didn't want us to swim as she said the sewage report was bad. I agreed grumpily as I couldn't see anything and thought she was over reacting. However, two days later there was a massive ecoli outbreak that was sea related
So awful

Sadly the sewage is dreadful down here in Kent. I really don’t like to swim in the sea now.  We have such gorgeous sandy beaches too

Floss

Joe Lycett is doing a C4 programme on sewage, much the same as the one Paul Whitehouse did on BBC last year. Feargal Sharkey (of The Undertones) is a big clean water campaigner.

Swimfo is the government info website for bathing waters, but weekly water quality testing only happens 1st May to 30th September.

Moorviews

Thank you @Florafauna, your lido sounds perfect and 15 to 20 minutes is very good going in winter!

Effluent is a problem down here too, despite the water company being able to charge more for managing counties with a lot of coastline. My DC come across it regularly when doing water sports, not necessarily after high rainfall either. They have sometimes had to abandon their activity because it was just too disgusting and dangerous. This area is very dependent on tourism so I don’t know what will happen if the water companies don’t clean up their act. 

Yesterday was a slow day of reading, dog walking and home cooking. We decided not to do cards and gifts as spending the day together was enough. 

carolbee

Moorviews said:

Thank you @Florafauna, your lido sounds perfect and 15 to 20 minutes is very good going in winter!

Effluent is a problem down here too, despite the water company being able to charge more for managing counties with a lot of coastline. My DC come across it regularly when doing water sports, not necessarily after high rainfall either. They have sometimes had to abandon their activity because it was just too disgusting and dangerous. This area is very dependent on tourism so I don’t know what will happen if the water companies don’t clean up their act. 

Yesterday was a slow day of reading, dog walking and home cooking. We decided not to do cards and gifts as spending the day together was enough. 

I’m down  in Thanet, terrible water company here. 🤬
I want  to go to that lido.....

Florafauna

Had another lido swim after work. Very much needed after a very difficult day. My new long sleeved swimsuit has arrived and I am thrilled with it. The lido was a balmy 18.8 degrees with rain pattering down😁.
Had an online sewing lesson after which was great. Did some more clearing away for our imminent house sale. 
Now chilling with knitting. Break up for half term. I am very tired and looking forward to some rest and unstructured time