All I needed was a knotted hankie...

[K'Ehleyr]

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

Had a day on the beach today. Why have I been sweltering here when in a hours drive I can be in jolly Bognor Regis?

The tide was out so the sandy beach was uncovered. Me, son and his friend, frollicked in the shallows and swam in the sea. Ate doughnuts with sugar - or could have been sand and got incredibly pink! All I needed was a deckchair and a knotted hankie ~ wonderful!

So when's the last time you went swimming in the sea?

 

[Plecostomus]

Last year.

So lets see them K'ehleyr-in-a-bikini photos! *eyebrow*

 

[Jadzia]

Never. I've never felt safe going out far on beaches during low tide because I know how a turning tide can and does cut people off unexpectedly. Nor can I swim.

The most I've enjoyed is paddling during high tide.

 

[Luckyflux]

Last year.

So lets see them K'ehleyr-in-a-bikini photos! *eyebrow*

Seconded

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I haven't swum in a sea for a long time. I came very close at the end of May this year, though...

Last time I remember actually was more of a splashing around nature when I was a little lad, out in the North Sea on Balmedie Beach, in what is now Aberdeenshire. So good I went there twice.

I have swum in a freshwater lake, though, if that counts. As recently as ten years ago this week, in fact.

All I needed was a knotted hankie...

... glasses... moustache...

MY BRAIN HURTS!

 

[Mallory]

You need a wetsuit this far north on the west coast of the States. So for me, it was the last time I visited my brother in Florida which was about 20 years ago.

 

[ITL]

^^ I see what you did there, Zion...

It's been many lots of years since I swam in the sea. Or indeed, anywhere. I really don't see the need to inflict my portly frame on the general public. What have they ever done to me?

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Never. I've never felt safe going out far on beaches during low tide because I know how a turning tide can and does cut people off unexpectedly. Nor can I swim.

The most I've enjoyed is paddling during high tide.

It was definately quite different swimming out to sea than swimming in. Although Bognor is a 'gentle' beach you can certainly feel the tow. I'm not a strong swimmer so did the 'swim left to right chest height up' thing.

It was just really cool floating on my back looking out to blue ...


And no bikini shots! I skuttled to the sea with my sarong wrapped round and then rolled it up and tied my hair with it. My son said it was like watching a turban bob, bobbing away

 

[An Officer]

What I wouldn't have given to be by the sea today... *sigh*
Sipping icy drinks sitting in front of a furiously turning fan had to do.

Brighton is my beach of choice though... lots of eye-candy and plenty of bars.

 

[Misfit Toy]

I've been swimming in the ocean more than i have in pools. I'm only an hour and a half from the coast, so I'm usually there a couple of times a year.

 

[Capn Flukie]

The last time I swam in the sea was about 1974.

For now, I shall frolic through this thread...

Frolic. Frolic. Frolic.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

What I wouldn't have given to be by the sea today... *sigh*
Sipping icy drinks sitting in front of a furiously turning fan had to do.

Brighton is my beach of choice though... lots of eye-candy and plenty of bars.

Could very well be Brighton next week. Man has jury service (how exciting is that!) next week in Hove so may well offer to take him down and hang around If so I'll have a chilled glass of wine on the pier for you

And ITL I didn't see what Zee did ~ surely a moustache would be too hot for the beach

 

[ITL]

And ITL I didn't see what Zee did ~ surely a moustache would be too hot for the beach

 

[An Officer]

^ Looks like John Cleese there.

Oh and the delicious fresh crayfish and lemon shacks along the shoreline, have some of those for me too...

 

[Mr Awe]

Last time was just a month ago, end of May, in the Florida keys. Swam, went snorkeling, etc. It was great a vacation there.

Mr Awe

 

[ITL]

^ Looks like John Cleese there.

Nope, it's Michael Palin - the best Gumby!

Or are you saying that Palin looks like Cleese in that photo?

 

[sojourner]

^Palin actually.

Hmmm, last time I swam in the sea was about 4 years ago in Grand Cayman. sigh.....

 

[K'Ehleyr]

And ITL I didn't see what Zee did ~ surely a moustache would be too hot for the beach

Of course! I didn't have the wooly thou!

^ Looks like John Cleese there.

Oh and the delicious fresh crayfish and lemon shacks along the shoreline, have some of those for me too...

Close but no cigar ~ Michael Palin, before he went round the world in 80 days. God I was late with that!

If you make Brighton, will take camera

And sojouner ~ fab av!

 

[An Officer]

^ Yeah, do take lots of snaps I can enjoy vicariously.

I thought it was just someone who happened to look like a young John Cleese. God, I didn't recognise Palin! Now that you've pointed it out though, I can see it.

I wish he would have kept doing the comedy on the side, along with the travel shows... he was uber fantastic in A Fish Called Wanda. Could have been just as big a film actor as Kevin Kline in his own way I think.

 

[ITL]

^ Yeah, do take lots of snaps I can enjoy vicariously.

I thought it was just someone who happened to look like a young John Cleese. God, I didn't recognise Palin! Now that you've pointed it out though, I can see it.

I wish he would have kept doing the comedy on the side, along with the travel shows... he was uber fantastic in A Fish Called Wanda. Could have been just as big a film actor as Kevin Kline in his own way I think.

I agree - Palin is a very good actor.

OK, this is drifting a bit, now....umm...not unlike a beach ball drifting out to sea! Phew! Back on topic in one fell swoop!