Free Range Naturism

Any updates on what the future of this forum is?  It's been nearly 3 months since the last post in here.

I'm currently looking at how to transfer ownership to an existing member so the site can continue running. I've just been ridiculously busy with no spare capacity for anything. My own personal situation has become increasingly precarious so I'd like to know that the forum had been handed off to someone able to offer the community the stability it needs.

In terms of cost it's possible to create a Patreon account so people can set up a regular donation or one-off payment. This then allows the forum to develop and grow.

I'm thinking that it might be easier to just hand over the website to anyone who wants to step up. I would need to ask the hosting service if I could transfer the account to someone else. I'm also happy to transfer the URL freerangenaturism.com to the new owner. I'd be happy to show them what needs to be done and be on hand in case anything goes wrong but I can't be responsible for it any more. Generally though the forum is small enough that not much needs to be done except verifying new members and making the occasional backup.

If you want to move to a new hosting service then I'm happy to move the website there instead. We chose a hosting service that allowed for nudity. Most of them don't. Costs are actually quite low for a discussion forum. About 7 UK pounds s month. The URL needs to be paid for every year but there are loads more domains available now so it might be worth moving away from .com to .org or something.

I'm sorry to say that we've decided to close down the forum. We need to minimise responsibilities and costs in our lives and the community would be better served if the forum was run by its most active members.

I'm happy to help you create a new home depending on what you decide. If you want to create a new forum and I can have this site redirect to it. Or if you all want I can give you a copy of the database so you can host it elsewhere.

Yes thanks for informing me of the spammer. I do check in to see if anyone has posted spam but if it looks like I have missed anything then feel free to PM me.

Hopefully the forum isn't going to become a target for spammers now they know it exists. If so I'll have to start moderating the first post.

Just a warning that if you come here and the site is unreachable that it hasn't closed down. I will be doing some maintenance when I get some spare time.

It's probably the server or your connection being a bit slow to load the icon.

This is really good. Thanks!

It needs to be just under 4 minutes long (can be shorter but I then need to make the other pieces longer). But even the short ones are useful in giving me an idea of what kind of poem I want and where to look for other poems.

We've been expecting a pandemic for quite a few years now and actually have been regularly stockpiling since 2009. Not just for a pandemic though. I recognised that as society becomes more efficient it also reduces redundancy and therefore makes it less robust to extreme events until you live in a just-in-time society with no spare capacity. The chances of any extreme event happening is quite low on a monthly basis, but when seen over the course of a lifetime the chances of at least one of them happening is actually very high. I am not just talking about pandemics (influenza was the most likely form it would be take) but extreme weather from climate change, currency collapse (we narrowly avoided this in the UK in 2008), political instability (e.g. Brexit and the rise of fascism), fuel shortages (happened in the noughties and '70s) etc. It doesn't have to be an extreme event that last months, but weeks or even just days and you benefit from being prepared. Not to mention that the long term trend is the exponential depletion of the Earth's finite resources.

Sometimes we've had to run down the stockpile when we move. We started building it up again anyway in preparation for Brexit and then Covid19 made an appearance and we accelerated it. It meant that we could avoid the shops when everyone else was panic buying. You can't panic buy a stock pile as you will forget so many things. You need to regularly use it to know how quickly each item depletes. It also requires developing other skills, like figuring out recipes that can use the stockpile and how to maintain variety. We also grow a lot of our own fruit and veg and have been using up as much space as we can to do this. But this is only the second season in this house and it takes a while to prepare the grounds. I took last week off work to do lots of gardening. I've done it before in a previous house using absolutely every since spare space to grow stuff and it's amazing how much produce you can get if you're prepared to put the work in.

I have a garden sunbed in the sunniest part of the back garden to do my sunbathing so I can get my vitamin D . I go out in a bikini because I can be seen from the back windows of the neighbours but I am contemplating doing it naked anyway. I can't block the view of the neighbours though without blocking the sun. It would be amazing if I could do the gardening naked though. Proper free range naturism is out the question at the moment though due to the lockdown.