Cas-Couple's Naturist Blog By Cas and John

Hello again we would like to thank you all for continuing to read our blog and we would also like welcome to any new readers.

Well what a week,we went to our naturist swim on Sunday and had a great time and met some wonderful people.

The only problem was the weather which had been constant rain for days and had caused many of the small back roads to flood this caused many members to have to make quite long detours to get to the swim or home again. Despite this there was a good turn out of people.

On Monday we actually had some sunshine and on our travels were able to take a few photos of the flooded fields in Sudbury (Suffolk). This was not as bad as it had been in the past but was still causing quite a few to comment that it was the worst they had seen it. Below is a pic we took at the Croft area of Sudbury, where the small model boating lake was surrounded by water.

Sudbury Croft

The weather stayed nice on Tuesday with more sun, this gave us a chance to take some more photos of the flood water at Nayland (Suffolk). This has also been worse in the past with the small footbridge inaccessible other than by wading through the water. It was still clear from water approaching the bridge but a bit muddy and we were able to take a few photos off the bridge over looking the fields. The following photo was one we took from the bridge.

Nayland river

Also in the field over the road from the river we saw one the signs that we are now coming out of winter, with the first new born lambs of the year out in the field with their mums. We could not resist taking some photos of them as they are so cute. One of which is below.

New Born Lambs

The rest of the week we spent resting and catching up with Naturist-corner work, this is still going really well and with a few minor updates during the week it is still keeping us busy. The site is well supported and we are now getting members letting us know of events that are happening during the summer as well as where they are going on holiday this year. We hope a few of them will get to meet up at these events etc, as it’s always great to put a face to a name.

We have had yet more wet weather this week; we did see a few flakes of snow during the week but in the main it has been more rain in our area. This has meant that the already water logged fields and full rivers have had more to contend with, we now have the fields in our area flooded from all the water. We have been lucky in that this has not as yet caused too many problems, like it has in other areas. Watching the news the last couple of days we have seen that the snow has caused problems in Scotland and other places round the country have suffered flooding. The forecast is for more of the same weather wise and several areas have got flood warnings for the next few days.

This all seems minor when you look at the earthquake that has happened in Chile and the devestation that has been caused by it. Coming quite close to others around the world, this really makes us feel that we are lucky to live in a country that is not at a high risk from quakes. Although the quakes don’t occur that frequently in the same areas, it does seem that there is an increase in them the last couple of years or so around the world.

For us this week  it has been quiet, which has meant we have had some time to relax at home and try to catch up with some jobs. We have as usual been keeping up to date with the web site(naturist-corner); this can be quite amusing at times and frustrating at others. We have had a few new members register lately that have been a bit of a problem in that they don’t seem able to follow site rules; we ask all new members to fill in their profiles before posting an introduction post is completed. It is amazing how many do not understand these simple instruction and are not filling out their profiles and so causing more work for us and the other gmods/admin in chasing them up.

We are looking forward to our naturist swim Sunday night, which we now hope to make a regular event for us. We have both enjoyed the last ones we went to a great deal and feel that it is a good way of spending some time with others in a naturist atmosphere, as well as getting in some naturist swimming which is always better than being restricted by costumes.

Here is a pic from our holiday in Scotland a few years ago.

Deer Rutting

This week seems to have gone really quickly, but we don’t seem to have accomplished much. Cas has just finished work in the garden lopping/cutting up some branches from our cherry tree, these had to be removed to stop them from hitting the bungalow and hanging over the path. Still got loads more  trimming to do on the row of trees down the side of the garden, but this will have to wait for another day.

We have spent some time sorting out some photos and various other files on the computer, making sure we have our work backed up in case of problems with one copy. This always seems to be a job left for too long as it’s rather boring checking files and backing up data.

The weather this week has remained cold and wet so we have not been able to get out to do any new photos this week. We have got some shots we would like to take planned and are just waiting for the weather to be suitable. We are looking forward for the drier weather so we can get out for our walks at our local picnic areas and woods, the ground at the moment is a bit too muddy for this. We have tried a couple of times but have found that the muddy ground is a bit too boggy and slippery to make the walks enjoyable. It also means that some of the areas we use to take our photos are not viable until the ground dries up a bit.

The web site (Naturist-corner) has had a few updates in the past couple of weeks, including the naturist swim reports section being added. We have posted our full report of Prested Hall Swim on there and another member has done one for a swim in Leeds. We hope more members will post reviews of their local swims, as this will be a good way of getting to know what they are like before making arrangements to attend them.

We have added a new feature to our blog this week; On the our photography page we have added a Domai beauty of the day photo, this will change daily. We would like to thank Domai for the link to do this; for anyone that is interested Domai produces a free newsletter once a week as well as having photo sets available for those that subscribe.

We are a day late with our blog this week as we have been very busy, and have not found the time to update it until now.

This week saw the snow back for another go, which in turn meant more accidents in our area. We avoided these and only saw the results of some of them. It is still cold with the temperatures staying around the oC mark, with it going down to -3C most nights. This has meant that there has been some lovely clear nights, which have been perfect for looking at the stars.

This week we have had over 1000 views of our blog and would like to say a thank you to all who read it. It still seems odd that others are interested enough in our ramblings to read it, but we do appreciate you all doing so. We started this off as something to try and as an example of how with limited knowledge one could be set up, as well as to try and encourage others from Naturist-corner to maybe do their own one. We would also like to say thanks to those that have left us comments and we have enjoyed reading these. Please feel free to leave them for us as it helps let us know how we are doing.

Tonight we have just got back from our second naturist swim at Prested hall, we had a great time again and really enjoyed it. This time we were a bit more relaxed from the start as we now knew our way around, as well as having met some of the people last time we went. Cas was brave this week and tried the steam room, but found she could not stay in for more than about a minute or so as it made her feel a bit ill from the heat. Jon finds that it is a great way to relax after a bit of swimming as the heat helps him a lot.

We are now starting to get lighter evenings so we are looking forward to being able to start getting out and taking some more photos. The weather also seems to have started to improve with most nights now no longer freezing.

We don’t seem to have got a lot done this week, but have been quite busy. The site (naturist-corner) is still going well and we are working with the other admin and moderators at sorting out some updates for it. These we hope will make the site more user friendly and provide more information on naturism and associated events. We are always looking for ideas to improve the site and welcome member feedback to help us with this.

We have been going through some photos we took recently and found the following one. We think it can be improved upon and will hopefully be retrying the shot in the near future, with the better camera (this was taken with our small panasonic tz7).

Night Shot Of Pub

The end of another week and it has once again been snowing, not much this time just a little sprinkling over night. It’s now bright sunshine and the small amount of snow we had has melted.

The main highlight of our week has been going to our first naturist swim, we were a bit unsure of what to expect but it turned out to be a very nice evening.

The swim we went to was at Prested Hall, we had checked their website and phoned the organiser to make the arrangements. He was very helpful giving us more details of the swim and directions to the hall. Once there we meet him and were shown around the facilities, he explained the basic rules for the sauna and steam room as well.

Once we were sorted we ventured into the lovely pool and had a nice swim, we took it very easy as we did not want to make ourselves sore from doing too much. We meet some very nice people while we were there and everyone was friendly and helpful.

We have done a full report for Naturist-corner which will be added to the site shortly.

For more details of the swim see our link to their website.

Once again we have been busy with the site (naturist-corner) during the week, we have had several new members again and some lively discussions on various topics. A lot of members are now starting to think about their holidays for this year with many asking advice about various places, these queries are frequently answered by other members who have been to the various sites/countries. One of the main questions from newer members is where to go for the first time, and loads of advice has been given to these members about places to stay as well as beaches to visit if they do not wish to stay at a naturist site.

This week has been mainly wet and dull in this area, all the snow has now gone and the rivers are swollen with the melt. A lot of the fields have large puddles on them with the rest being very muddy. Because of this we have not been out much this week, and have spent a lot of time on the web site.

The site (Naturist–corner) is really taking off at the moment with loads of new members still joining. It’s great to see the cross section of people joining from all parts of the country, we have even had a few more people join us from other countries. This is great as they can let us know the views on naturism in their country and the best places to visit there including the beaches that are available for nudists. We welcome all reports on clubs/beaches/places that are used for naturism, as this helps us all when we are looking at where to go and things to do.

On another note today there has been a protest in London by a group of photographers protesting about the heavy handedness of the police in the stop and search measures they were given by the anti terror laws. They have been frequently stopping photographers telling them they can’t take photos in certain areas or of certain places as they could be used for terror purposes. This is not what the rules are actually there for and a recent ruling by the EU says that the law is not valid although this is being appealed at the moment. Full story can be read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476318.stm and there is a website and facebook page for the group that organise these events. This is the Bust Card that the group give out and encourage all photographers to carry, see the link for more details.

Bust Card

This week started off with the snow still causing chaos in most areas of the country, but during the week for us anyway it started thawing and then raining which has cleared all the snow here. There was still some left in Harwich area yesterday when we were visiting family, but at least all the roads were clear.

In the news the past few weeks there have been reports of quite a few accidents on the roads due to the weather conditions and we are grateful we have managed to stay safe during the cold spell and avoid any accidents.

Not sure if we have seen the last of the cold weather but at least we did manage to get some photos of it while it lasted. As the thaw now seems to be setting in we expect that there maybe flooding in some places as all the snow melts, hope this does not cause too many problems for people.

We have had quite a bit of work to do on the Naturist-corner forum  this past couple of weeks with a influx of new members joining the site. This is great and we always welcome the new members and try to answer any queries they may have.

Well it’s certainly been a very cold and snowy week we had to visit some family in Felixstowe Suffolk on Wednesday and nearly got the car stuck in their car park due to the depth of the snow the car just sank.

The good news about all the snow is that when we went shopping the store was empty as no one wanted to be out in the bad weather,it has also given us the chance to get some lovely photos of the snow.

We had to make an emergency visit to the dentist as Jon managed to break a tooth and needed a filling this was done on Friday and on the way home we took the following pictures.

Snowy bridge

Snowy river

Snowy landscape

Well its our first post of the new year, hope you all had a good time over the festive period.

We have spent a relatively quiet week relaxing and avoiding the crowds of people at the sales in our local towns. Cas had to go and have a filling during the week, she was not looking forward to this as she hates dentists. It did however go fine in the end and she did not feel too rough.

We had to get new windscreen wiper blades on the car as they had started to jump a bit and were not clearing the screen properly. We had also noticed that the brakes seemed a bit poor lately and asked them to check them for us. It turned out that the rear caliper was sticking a bit and needed to be freed up, so this was done and the pads were checked as well.

We spent new years eve at some friends and had a great time bringing in the new year with them, listening to all the fireworks and boat horns as midnight brought in the new year. It also brought some more snow in this area and made our journey home a bit slower as the roads were slippery.