Cas-Couple's Naturist Blog By Cas and John

Hi again we have not managed a lot since our last post as the improvement in the weather did not last long. Having had a hosepipe ban announced in our area the weather decided to throw us a load of rain. We have now had several weeks of rain on and off some of which have been very heavy, this has caused flooding in many areas. We have had to take various detours around our area where roads are shut for flooding. This however has not helped the drought much as most of the water is not getting through the very hard ground to make much difference. Also a lot of it will just run off into rivers and hence the sea.
We have managed to get out a few times and take some photos, mainly of the flooding but have got drenched in doing so on more than one occasion. We are still going to our camera club every week and mainly enjoying it, we have picked up a few tips and hope to carry on doing so and in turn improve our photos. The themes for the photo competitions have got us a bit stumped as they are quite vague and we are not sure how to go about best doing photos for them. At least every few months there is an open comp. which we can get something sorted for entry into.

Naturist-corner has been very busy of late, so much so that it is having to be moved to a new server to cope with the extra traffic. This means it will be off line for a while in the near future while the change over takes place.

We have recently been on an evening out with a group of photographers from a flickr group to do some fire spinning photos. We had only seen photos of this before and were not sure what was involved, luckily the group we went with had done this many times before and were able to give us some great tips and advice. The actual fire spinning is done with wire wool in small metal cages attached to metal wire, this is then lit and spun by a member of the group to create some great patterns of light.

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Hi we thought it was time we did another update.

Since our last update we can report that Naturist-Corner is still going strong, with lots of activity and new members joining all the time. The forum is rolling out some updates to make the site look the same across all areas with the same colour scheme etc. The members maps and club/swim maps have been updated and given the same look as the main forum making it look more integrated. We think Tony the site Admin who is doing all the hard work has done a great job with this and thank him for it.

The weather is slowly improving and we have been able to get out for a couple of local trips to take some photos. We took a trip out around the area stopping at several places including paper mill loch just before it started to warm up and got some shots of the loch area with frozen water. There was still snow on the ground which made the footpath rather slippery in places and we decided that we would not go too far to be on the safe side. We have made a note to go back sometime soon, as it has loads of potential for some interesting shots. We also took an afternoon trip to Fingeringhoe where we made our way to part of the river looking towards Wivenhoe. Here there is the chance to get some great reflections of Wivenhoe waterfront in the river, we had not quite timed it right and missed high tide which would have been best. There was however enough water still left for us to get some good shots.

We made a short night time trip to Bury St Edmunds to take some night shots of the various lit up buildings around the cathedral area, unfortunately the cathedral itself is not lit but a few other parts were.

We had been hoping that the conditions over the last few nights would have been right for us to see the northern lights from here, but unfortunately this has not been the case. With the big solar flare earlier in the week it sounded like there was going to be a really good chance of us seeing them but despite looking regularly over the last couple of nights we have not managed to see them this time. This is a real shame as it is a lovely sight to watch and it would have been nice to get the chance to photograph them.

Here are some photos from our recent trips out, we count a couple of them as work in progress as we think that areas of them could be improved. Hope you like them.

Wivenhoe

Abbey Gate

War memorial

Hi all,We hope you all had a good Christmas and are having a good year so far.

We have not really decided what to do with this blog at the present time so here is the first update of the year.

We did not have a good Christmas as Jon came down with a bad stomach bug that meant all he could manage to eat for a few days over Christmas was some toast and jam,this caused us a problem as we had arranged to go to a friends for a meal on Christmas day but we had to cancel it they did not mind too much and we went over a few days later for a meal instead which was very nice,we also managed to get down to London to visit some friends between Christmas and new year we had a great meal with them and spent the afternoon playing some games with them,once their kids went to bed we all stripped off and spent the rest of the night in  naturist mode,we found this strange as their kids go to the naturist beach and spend time nude but think home naturism is weird.

For new years eve we went to a firework display,the display is in Harwich but we thought we would get a better view from across the water at Shotley.We were glad we did because we got an excellent view of the fireworks without having to walk from the car this came in handy as it kept raining before the fireworks started so we could keep dry in the car and get out to watch them at the last minute.

Since then we have joined a camera club and are hoping to learn lots more about our hobby from the other members, it is a very vibrant club with over 60 members of all ages and abilities and a good mix of male and female members which seems to make it far more friendly than some other clubs.

This last week we have had lots of snow and ice causing all sorts of problems for travelers this has meant we have stayed at home most of the time with just a few trips to see friends and family also some trips to the camera club, where it decided to snow while we were there this meant some people had trouble getting out of the car park.

Because of the cold we have had no chance to get any nude time yet this year as we have not been brave enough to go to the naturist swim in case the roads get bad while we are there as the swim is up a long private drive for a hotel the chances of it becoming very slippery are quite high.

Thats all for now.

Here are some pics from the fireworks display.

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Hi sorry that this is a very late update but we have been so busy the last week that we have not had time before now to write a new post. The weather in our area has been mostly wet the last couple of weeks with the occasional frost. We have had quite a bit of wind at times but this has been mild compared to other places around the country.

Since our last update we have been busy with family and friends and not really had much time to do anything. We have helped out a friend with some computer issues and got sorted out some software for their camera. They wanted to try shooting in raw as it gives much better results than jpeg but didn’t know how to go about this. We downloaded some software that would read the raw files and let them view and do basic adjustments to the raw file before transferring to another programme for final adjustments and saving. They were really happy with this until we tried to open a raw file and found we couldn’t, the camera isn’t supported by the programme. We now need to look into it a bit further to find an update or plug-in that will sort the problem out. This means that they will carry on shooting jpegs for now until we sort out this issue.

We have had car problems since the last updates with it throwing an engine management warning light up on the dash board. We phoned the dealer and they said that they could not look at it for a couple of days but not to drive it. This was not good as we needed to get into town to pick up some medication or we would run out. We contacted the lease company to see if something could be sorted out and after a lot of arguing it was agreed the RAC would come out and look at it to see if they could sort it out. When they arrived and looked at it the light was still on but the car was running fine, this meant that a diagnostic computer had to be plugged in. This showed a fault code of p1276 which after a phone call was tracked to a fuel filter problem or sensor. We were told it was only to be driven to the dealers and a loan car would be sorted out. Next day we phoned the lease company again and told them the verdict, they said that as the dealer had no loan car available, they would sort one out. A couple of hours later we were phoned and told they had refused the loan car, we were not happy. After ringing them back and speaking to a different person we had got a loan car agreed and we could drop ours off at the dealers and pick it up. The dealer said they would look at ours the next day and we could hopefully pick it up about midday. We then went off to get our medications, on arriving home we had a missed call from the dealer; on phoning them back we discovered that they had managed to fit our car in and it was all done and ready to be picked up. Back we went to the dealers and picked our car up, leaving the loan car there to be collected. We had let the loan car people know and they said it would be picked up the next day as it was too late by then to do so. We left the keys with the dealer for the loan car and finally made our way home in ours. It turned out it was a fuel filter error and they changed it for a new one; what a lot of hassle for such a small job.

We have also helped a family member move this week, they have downsized from a three bedroom house to a one bedroom bungalow. Having been planning this for some time, they had already got rid of a lot of access furniture and things. We were mainly driving the hire van as neither of them drive; we picked up a transit luton from the hire company early in the morning and drove to theirs, about an hours trip. When we got there, they were ready to make a start loading and had boxes etc stacked ready to be put on the van. I helped out with the lighter stuff, leaving the heavier boxes and large items to them and their helper. Within a couple of hours we had the first load packed and off to their new place, we worked as a team and managed to unload in about the same time. Back to the house for the rest of the stuff and we had this loaded up in no time, back again to unload and everything was moved in by around 2.30pm. It was then a quick load up of some rubbish from both places and down to the local dump before they shut. We made it and finished unloading the rubbish just as the dump was shutting at 4pm. After dropping them off at their new place we had one more task to do before going home. We had agreed to move a bed for another family member while we had the van, so off we went to pick it up and the deliver it for them. By the time we had finished we were tired out, as it had been a long day. We had left home at 7.30am and got back home at 9pm, without really stopping all day (Jon had supervised as he is not up to helping out any more).

We are considering shutting down this blog as after two years , we are finding it hard to find things to write about that may be interesting. We would welcome some views from our readers about what you might like to read/see on our blog if we do continue it. Thanks for reading our waffle.

That’s all for now, hope you all have a great Christmas and a happy new year.

Hi welcome back to our blog, the past couple of weeks has seen the weather getting colder and in some places there has been snow. This has not got to our area yet but there has been some frost and a small amount of hail.

This will be a very short post this time as we have had family illness the last couple of weeks and have not been able to get out much. We are currently waiting for test results for this family member to see what treatment etc they will need and as a result how much help they may or may not need from now on. We are all hoping that it’s a simple case of some medication that will sort the problem out but life never turns out to be that simple.

We did manage to get out for an evening with a friend for a photography trip, this was a spur of the moment thing as we had heard that there could be some large waves on the coast with possible flooding due to high winds coming off the sea causing a larger swell of the high tide. We decided to go to Dunwich as there is a nice beach there we thought would provide some good photos but as it turned out we did not get much wave activity there. We decided rather than waste the trip we would take some photos of the friary ruins and see if we could get some interesting pics of it on long exposures. We lit the ruins with an off camera flash gun, fired a few times during the exposure so that they stood out and also got the night sky in from the long exposures.

We have posted some photos below from that trip.

That’s all for now, hope you all have a good week.

Dunwich friary

Dunwich friary 1

Hi welcome back to our blog, the last couple of weeks it has gradually been getting colder especially of a night. Temperatures during the day are now around 10°C and quite often at night it is down to around 3°C, this has meant for the last several days we have had nearly constant fog in our area especially at night. This has made driving conditions difficult at times with thick fog in places.  Today has been a better day with the fog clearing in our area, which we hope will stay clear for a while.

Over the last couple of weeks we have been busy helping out with the change over with the forum software on Naturist-corner. With the new software tested and ready to go live, messages were put up on the site that the old site would be a read only version and the new site would be up and running in a couple of days. New membership was also temporary stopped while the changeover took place. This all went quite smoothly and we thank Tony (admin) for his hard work on getting the site sorted out and completing the change over in a couple of days. Once up there was still quite a bit of work to do and we are helping work through this to get all aspects of the site correct. Two time consuming jobs that needed to be tackled were putting back all attachments to the correct posts, as these did not carry over from the old site. This has meant going through all the relevant posts  on the old site copying them and them putting them in the correct part of the posts on the new site. The other job is to go through and find any links that are for the old software and change them to the correct link for the new software. This we have started but as there are lots of posts to go through it may take some time to complete. Over all the site is looking good and only very minor problems have been spotted, which are/have been investigated and sorted out as necessary.

Having been busy with the above and Jon having a bad period with his joints we have not done a lot else. We didn’t manage to get to the last naturist swim, as Jon did not feel up to it. We hope to be able to get to the next one, as we both missed going. We are both now starting to miss the warm sunny weather when we could get out and enjoy being nude, even if it was just in the garden at times. We will now have to wait out the winter and hope for a good warm spring so that we can enjoy the freedom of outdoor naturism.

That’s all for now.

Hi welcome back to our blog, the last couple of weeks we have really noticed the change in weather, it has now turned quite chilly. We have had quite a few days of rain over the last couple of weeks and even more where it has been windy. Autumn is well and truly here with the trees in their beautiful colours of autumn, driving around our area they look really lovely. We haven’t managed to get out to take any photos of them as either the weather has not been suitable or we have not felt well enough.

After thinking we had both got over our bad colds, we only actually had a few days feeling better as they came back again. Jon’s came back worse and he spent a few days really suffering with it, I fared better and only felt rough for a couple of days. This is not really a surprise as the medication Jon is on affects his immune system and therefore colds now affect him worse. We are now feeling quite a lot better but have been warned that this cold bug can hang around for several weeks and keep coming back, not really what we wanted to hear.

Last weekend we were felling ok and went to visit some naturist friends, they have a lovely place in the country which is quite secluded. We spent some time with them in their lovely hot tub, chatting and relaxing. The weather that day was cool and windy but it did not bother any of us, as we spent about an hour relaxing in the hot tub, the only thing we noticed was that the wind was blowing the water into our faces at times but it was not unpleasant. Within part of their grounds they frequently get deer visiting them and have even had them come up to the hot tub before now but we were not lucky enough to see them while we were there. Having decided that it was starting to get dark and colder, we left the hot tub and went indoors for the evening. We then spent a very relaxing nude evening chatting and laughing, and discussing various naturist beaches and holidays etc.

During the last week we have been catching up on lots of computer work that had built up due to having had broadband problems. This seems to have settled down now and it is back to a reasonable speed and usable once again. Having waded our way through loads of emails, we started to catch up properly with the various forums and sites we are on. We had made a reasonable effort to keep up with important things on our phones via mobile data but this is not the best for doing websites. We spent a long while catching up on all the naturist-corner posts and made sure we had not missed anything important. We are lucky that the admin team is very good and the gmod’s had done a great job of keeping everything going smoothly.  The team have also still been testing the new software in a beta version of the site, this looks good and with the few minor problems having been sorted out it is getting nearer going live. We have had a few normal members also join us in testing the beta site and this has been a great help, as they have spotted a few things that the team had missed and these have now been sorted out. We are looking forward to the new site coming on line as the software streamlines some aspects of the site, as well as making other features easier to use. Having caught up with all this we went onto other sites and got to date on those as well.

Yesterday we went to some naturist friends for a fireworks party, this was a clothed event as it was for family and friends that are non-naturists. We also think it may be a bit dangerous sorting a bonfire and fireworks out in the nude. We had a really great time and even attempted to take some photos of the various fireworks. Everyone took a few fireworks along and it made for a great time, we were a bit surprised by the size of some of the fireworks as we had been told to take a few small ones with us, as their garden is not that big. On seeing some of the others we wondered if they were a bit too big for the size garden, but it turned out to be fine. The bigger ones were no problem and everyone was able to enjoy them without any problems. We now know for next year to take some better ones with us. After most of them had been let off around 2 hours later, many of the guests left to go home, we stayed and helped them set off some of the remaining small fireworks. Once this had been done we all retired to the lounge for a much needed sit down and rest. With nearly every one now gone, we were left with us and our friends chatting for the the rest of the evening. This was one of the best fireworks nights we have had for a long time and look forward to another one next year.

We are now working our way though all the photos we took last night & sorting out the good ones from them bad. We will then back them up a couple of times as well as doing a copy of some of the people shots for our friends. If we find any really good ones we will try to remember to add them to the blog.

That’s all for now, hope you all have a good week.

Hi welcome back to our blog, the weather has now changed from the lovely hot sunny days to the colder wet and windy ones. The past couple of weeks we have had several days of dull overcast conditions with some showers, but also some sunny but windy days. All this means that we will now be limiting our nude time to indoors or at our local swim.

Over the past couple of weeks we have been having broadband issues with our speed dropping really low and sometimes it has not been available at all. This is mainly due to the fact we are a long way from our exchange and the cables being old. This means that we sometimes get a very slow service depending on the weather, with wet and windy days being the worst. We are hoping it doesn’t get too bad as it is expected to be a bad winter, still hoping they may be able to make it a bit better as they slowly upgrade lines etc in our area.

The above has caused us a few problems, as we are currently trying to help beta test new forum software for Naturist-corner. With the current forum software we have various add ons installed and some of these no longer have help backup for them, having considered the options our Admin (Tony) decided that it would be best to move to a different forum software. He has been hard at work transferring all the data from the current one to the new one, as well as sorting out additional add ons resulting in a beta version of the forum. The gmod/admin team have been busy testing this over the past few weeks and hopefully spotting anything that does not work properly. We will soon have some normal members of the forum joining us in the testing phase, so that we can all hopfuly give the site a full work over.

We came down with the cold/flu bug that is currently going around last week, this meant that there were several days when all we wanted to do was laze around. We both found we had several days where we could not concentrate on anything and had very little energy. We are both feeling a bit better but still have the remains of it, mainly a cough. Hopefully we will both get fully over this in the next few days.

Sunday we did manage to get to our local naturist swim at Prested Hall, we did manage a bit of swimming but not as much as we would have liked due to we both still felt weak from our colds. We did get to catch up with some naturist friends of ours and spent some time chatting with them. The pool was lovely and warm this week and it was nice just to relax in it chatting between attempts at swimming. After a while Jon decided to try the steam room and as I cannot bear the heat in it I decided to have a relax on one of their loungers for a while.

That’s all for now.

Hi everyone welcome back to our blog, the past couple of weeks have been mixed in the way of weather. The first week we had some hot sunny weather with the temperatures getting to around 25C on several days. This was really nice for this time of year and we made the best of it by spending some time out and about. This all changed last weekend when it turned cooler and started raining. This week has been mainly cold and wet with quite a lot of wind. The trees are getting their autumn colours now but with the wind they are blowing off the tress already, this means it may be difficult to get many photos of the autumn colours this year.

We started off the two weeks by making another visit to Leysdown naturist beach, it was a lovely hot day and after sorting out a few things we got there early afternoon. On driving down to the parking area at the beach we saw that there was a lot of people about, as there was only one or two spaces left. Having parked up and got our stuff out of the car we made our way onto the beach to find that it was very busy. Having a quick look round we saw that most of the spots in the dunes had already been taken and people had also set up along the dune edge nearest the sea. We found a spot along the dune edge and set our stuff up there. There was a breeze blowing off the sea and this made putting our wind break up a bit more difficult, as it was not something we had done for quite a while. Once settled we got the chance to sit and look around us, we noticed there were quite a few couples amongst the people there. This was nice to see as a lot of people had said most beaches were over run with single guys, some of which can be off putting. By this we mean that they tend to watch the couples/females too closely and can try to crowd in on their space. We found that every one that day was polite and no one caused a problem, it was nice to see so many people out enjoying the sun nude. As the afternoon wore on the temperature started to cool down and the wind got a bit stronger, this led to people packing up and leaving the beach. At around 5.30pm nearly all the couples had left the beach and quite a lot of the guys had also. Of those remaining most packed up just after 6pm as it was getting quite cold by then, we also chose this time to pack up and head for something to eat before going home.

We also helped out our friends again with some computer issues, sorting out problems on their laptops for them. One was quite easy to sort as it was just a case of downloading some new software for their Linux machine so that they could play music with it and also update the flash player so they could watch video clips on it. The other one was a bit more of a problem, having had the old hard drive die and having replaced it with a new one they found that when installing windows they keyboard did not work properly. Having spent some time trying to sort this out via drivers etc we failed to solve the problem. We concluded that it must have been an install error and to start again. We re-installed windows and this time got it all working without a problem. Another job well done.

When driving to some families during this week we spotted some Suffolk punches in a local field, these are lovely looking horses and we just had to stop to get a few photos of them. When we stopped and got to the field edge we noticed that there were two foals with several adults. One of our local farmers breeds these great horses and is helping to keep them from dying out as a breed. We took several photos of these lovely animals and one of them even came to say hello to us, letting us make a brief fuss of it.

Today we went to our local naturist swim at prested hall, once again our friends came along and enjoyed their time nude in the pool. We spent a lovely couple of hours relaxing in the pool and area, chatting to old friends and new. It is great to see new people coming along to the swims and experiencing the freedom of naturist swims. Once again John enjoyed spending some time in the steam room, as this helps ease his joints for a while.

That’s all for now, hope you all have a good week.

Hi welcome back to our blog, the past couple of weeks it has been a lot cooler with several days of rain and wind, but we did manage to get a few odd sunny days. These felt warm but had some wind which took the temperature down a bit. We have not managed any real nude time this past couple of weeks other than at home, partly due to the weather and partly due to other commitments.

This is going to be a short entry this time as Cas managed to hurt her hip once again and this has meant that she has been resting most of the time. It has also meant that other than trips to family etc she has not been up to going out. It was just starting to feel better towards the end of last week, when she turned wrong and started it off again. Hopefully with a bit more rest it will recover enough for us to get out over the next couple of weeks, as we hope to get some photo trips in now that the leaves on the trees are starting to get their autumn colours.

We have had a friends pc here the last couple of weeks trying to get it working for them, as it would no longer power up. We have actually been stumped by this one, as after checking it out we thought it might be the power supply. We checked this out and even tried a different one but it proved not to be the problem. We checked various other options and all of them failed to find the problem. After a lot of testing we have come to the conclusion that the motherboard or processor has gone, these being expensive to replace with similar ones (if we could find any) we advised our friend that they would need a new pc. They asked if we could recover the data they had on the hard drive for them and this we managed to do, putting it onto dvd’s for them.

We have also been doing our admin work on Naturist-corner while we have had the time, having now taken over the contact side of the site we are finding that some of the questions people ask are rather daft at times. We try to sort out the problems and where possible point them in the right direction on the site for the information they require. We have recently welcomed a new Gmod to the team and note that they have made a great start at the job, this will help us all out as it’s another pair of eyes to help monitor the site.

That’s all for now.