Cas-Couple's Naturist Blog By Cas and John

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.

Hi welcome back to our blog, the past two weeks we have had some lovely warm sunny days, as well as some really wet ones. It looks like the summer is over and we are starting to enter autumn and the cooler wetter part of the year. This has meant that we have now had to start taking our jackets out with us on days where it looks likely to rain, so we don’t get drenched. It’s much easier when you don’t have to wear clothes, not being able to do this in public means we are stuck with clothes and hence the jackets.

We have spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks with various friends, we have enjoyed chilling out with them and having long chats. We helped one of them with a few minor computer issues, which we were able to sort out easily. We also helped a family member sort out a new laptop they had got second hand, to replace their old one that had keyboard problems. This was another job that didn’t take us long and sorted out the issues they were finding hard to sort out. They said we could have the old one in a couple of weeks to play with and see if we could get it working properly.

Last week we finally made it to our meet with friends at Leysdown nudist beach, this is the first time we had been there so was not sure what to expect. Having driven down to Leysdown we followed the directions we had been given to the beach and found it was quite easy to get there. When we got to the dirt road that runs behind the beach & dunes, it becomes quite bumpy to drive along and care should be taken when driving along this section. We were not sure how far along the nudist section was and thought it best to watch out for our friends car, as they were already there. Just as we spotted their car, they spotted us and came down from the beach to meet us. The day was lovely and warm but the sun was not out when we arrived but we were hopeful that it might come out later. First impression on arrival was that the steep back between the road/parking area was quite steep and it might be difficult to get up. Our friend however showed us a place where small step features had been made up the bank by the repeated use of it, this made it a lot easier than originally  thought. We took it very carefully and made it without and problems, once at the top we got our first view of the beach and dunes. The immediate area from the bank was long grasses but as you went further several areas of sand appeared that can be used for setting up “camp” in. Our friends had already set their blanket and wind breaks up in one of these areas and we went and joined them. They had also set up a small game of cricket to help keep their two boys occupied, although they had managed to lose at least one of the tennis balls they were playing with. Our friends then gave us a tour of the nudist area and beach, the beach was full of shells initially but gave way to sand as the sea went out. It looked lovely and on a hot day, it would be great to cool down in the sea before relaxing on the beach or dunes again. There were a few other people about, some of whom we nude when we arrived and enjoying the freedom of no clothes. The sun came out after a while and us adults all stripped off to enjoy it, the boys stayed in their shorts but paid no attention to us being nude (they were used to it as had been there many times before). After a great day relaxing we got dressed and had a short walk along the beach and took a few photos of the landscape and also some of the shells that we found along the way. We will put a couple of photos at the end of this blog update.

A couple of our friends had expressed an interest in going to the naturist swim with us sometime, but because of family and work had never been able to make it. While chatting to them last week, we worked out that they would be free to go to last Sundays one. We arranged to meet them there and sorted out with the organiser that we would have two friends with us, we gave them the address and rough directions on how to get there. They let us know that they were running late on Sunday and would be around 30-40 minutes late, this was fine and we were able to then send them more accurate directions once we arrived. We waited for them at the end of the drive to the hall so they could follow us down to the pool complex and car park. Once in we all had a really good time in the pool and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. They both tried the steam room, but like myself (Cas) the female partner could not stay in there for more than a minute or two as it made her feel ill (glad I’m not the only one). They both said they really enjoyed it and would let us know when they wanted to go again.

We have also been working hard to keep up with all our admin duties on Naturist-Corner, including resorting to checking it on our phones when we have been out for the day and don’t want too much to do when we get in late from friends. The site is still growing with new members joining and the boards being well used by the members. One such post even concerned this blog, as it appears that we have had a mention is H&E magazine (Health & Effiiciency). We have since tried in our local area to get hold of a copy but no where seems to stock it, we will keep looking and hopefully find this months one before the new one comes out.

That’s all for now.

Cas at Laysdown nudist beach

Cas at Laysdown nudist beach 1

Hi welcome back to our blog, the last couple of weeks have been a mixed bag weather wise, we have had some lovely sunny days and others where it has rained nearly non stop. Some of the rain showers have been very heavy causing localised flooding. This has limited our activities a bit, but we have still managed to get out several times to take more photos.

During the past couple of weeks we have been helping out friends and family again with computer issues. Most of these have been quite easy to sort out and only taken a short time. Our friends that moved recently have finally got all their things over to the new house and are starting to settle in. They are finding it a bit strange having moved from a town to a village and have found that things are not as easy to get sorted as where they were before. Having gone from an area where broadband was easy to get and where plenty of providers covered them to the new house where the exchange is not supported by most providers. They have also found that the speed they will get there is a lot slower and most providers have a download limit. They are not very impressed with this and are currently trying to sort out the best deal. This means that at the moment they don’t have broadband and are using mobile broadband which is very slow.

One night last week we managed to go out with our friend on a photo trip, to do some night shots of lit up buildings. We had previously driven through a small village near us called Felsted and noticed a lovely old pub, we wondered if it might be lit up at night and decided to go take a look. When we got there we found that it was lit and looked really good. We got our cameras and tripods out and set up to take some photos, all started out well until our friends camera battery went flat after only taking two or three shots. Unfortunately he has not got a spare, so had to pack his camera away, we then lent him our spare camera so that he could carry on taking photos and not feel left out. This was a good evening and we all enjoyed it, one of the photos from that shoot is at the end of the blog.

Last weekend we were invited to a naturist friends for a birthday bbq, this was however to be a clothed party as family would be there. When we arrived at theirs we were welcomed in by one of the couple, who told us that their partner was not there. He had decided to go metal detecting instead, this was good as the party was for his birthday. We met some of their family and proceeded to have a very nice relaxed afternoon in the garden. Other family arrived during the day and we all had a great time.

On our way to our friends above bbq we once again spotted the airship at a small airfield and decided that it would again give us an opportunity to take some more photos of it. We parked up in a nearby car park and took some shots, while we were there we also saw some model aeroplanes flying. We thought it would be a good challenge to try and take a few photos of them as well. We managed to get some quite good shots of the larger ones but we were really a bit too far away to make the most of the opportunity. While we were there a micro light came in to land and we got a few shots of it landing and manoeuvring round the air field. A few minutes later a helicopter circled round and came in to land as well. We took some nice shots of this and even managed to get one where it looked like it was over the airship. We have posted one of these at the end of the blog.

We visited another friend later in the week in the same area and decided to see if the airship was still there as we wanted to try some more night shots of it. We were in luck, it was still there and we stopped and set up our gear to take a few shots. The weather was quite cold & damp that night and we only took a few shots before we realised it was starting to rain again. Not wanting to get the camera etc soaked, we quickly packed up and made our way home.

The Swan @ Felsted

Helicopter & Airship

Bees & Flowers

That’s all for now, hope you like the photos.

Hi all, due to issues in our  lives at the moment we will not be able to update this every week for a while but we will try and update every two weeks instead.