A rather spontaneous one from me. I’ve just had a knock on the door from Amazon. My bottle of sunscreen that’s been lurking in a dark cupboard for many months is three years old now. I thought it’d be prudent to get a new one
So, I can’t speak for others but the mini heatwave that’s been forecast is now with us, at least here in Sussex.
I was wondering if any of you have any plans for this summer? Take up a new hobby, catch up with an old one perhaps? I’m certainly keen to get back to fishing on our local mill pond, would love to get back down on to the coast for some beach, pier or rock fishing.
If you care to look at the back of the picture you can see the arm brace and stem of my good old Laser Trident metal detector. I’m very tempted although it’s extremely difficult get permission to dig on someone’s land, understandably so. Beaches are generally fine
But potentially there’s a myriad of things to get up to during the summer months, any hopes or plans?
Don’t forget, before we can blink it’ll be Christmas again!
I may join the local ramblers , and I can do short bus trips on my free pass I’m also thinking of doing Train trips , but its nothing definite , I have responsbilities .
I’ve just promised to take Mrs d00d for a picnic in Hyde Park. We go there often, but not had a picnic in years. Smoked salmon sandwiches, pastel de nata, water, port in the hip flask, coconut truffles. Nothing like roughing it on a sunny summers days
Blimey!
Hyde park, that brings back memories. Like the sound of your picnic basket d00d.
Actually you’ve reminded me, I keep thinking about paying a long overdue visit to Regents Park, haven’t been for decades…
Funny thing is that, although I insisted on my kids wearing sunscreen and they now do their kids, I have never actually put any on in my entire life, however I never go out without a hat.
All schools have a strict, “No Hat, No Play” policy
I suppose generally speaking attitudes change over the course of time. Back here in The UK if you returned from a weeks holiday in Herne Bay with a lobster red face and the skin hanging off it in shreds it was a sign that you’d had a good holiday!
I can vaguely remember my dad being complemented on his (peeling) skin damaged condition way back in the late sixties. I’m sure everybody didn’t think like that but many did!
Yep, I lived by the seaside in Britain and my back/shoulders peeling was a regular occurrence every summer as was the occasional shade of lobster though generally I used to tan pretty well without getting burned even though peeling was fairly regular.
The bugs and mosquitoes really seem to like me, it’s said that they favour people with certain blood groups.
Just retrieved my spray fron the outdoors cupboard
To be honest I rarely use them except when flies are in plague proportions and then usually when I am just sitting down, they are a bugger if you are trying to eat. When walking I usually use a bit of foliage as a swish.
