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Suggestions and announcements / Re: We're back

« on: April 26, 2024, 10:39:05 PM »

... I guess there must be a forum on the BN site and AANR for the US but I'm not a member of either organisation so can't participate in those.

John

There is a forum for BN members which is quite active. It does however have a long-running 7200-post thread on the rights and wrongs of the UK's exit from the EU, and a few others like that.

But read carefully and selectively it can be very useful.

nib

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General Naturism Discussion / Re: Safe Search

« on: January 20, 2024, 07:03:08 PM »

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I can't think now who took the photo!  Did we grab a passer by?  Or was there someone else?
...

Who is that mostly hidden behind you? Of those I have noted as present, only balead I don't recognise. I don't think he liked being in photos, so maybe he took it? But then who is behind you!

nib

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General Naturism Discussion / Re: Safe Search

« on: December 28, 2023, 06:40:17 PM »

I think you got us all tabulated there, Nib!
JohnGW was definitely there when I was but I think that may have been the following year when only a couple of people turned up.  It was nice though that we all came out in honour of Larry Tanman's visit.  I caught up with him in Brighton the day before (clothed!).
It was one of my first experiences of social naturism.
I miss Tanman and Milfmog. They were very generous to me in encouraging and enfranchising my naturist journey.
John

It was 2011-07-10 when we met JohnGW (and his wife) at Abbey House, Keith and yourself were there, Milfmog was to have come but wasn't able on the day.

Cheers,
nib

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General Naturism Discussion / Re: Safe Search

« on: December 22, 2023, 09:13:37 PM »

2010...Was that the year that Larry visited from Texas?

How many were there?...6...7?
Jbee

Yes it was!

I made it 8 including Cath and myself (Ian Milfmog, Tanman, balead, tall Mark, nuduke, Tony (nudey915)).

Cheers,
nib

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General Naturism Discussion / Re: Safe Search

« on: December 15, 2023, 01:05:16 PM »

Hi Nigel Nib! 
Lovely to hear from you and nice that you're still with us.  Drop in more often!!
What made you notice my post?
John

I do read quite often, but not post so much!

How many of the TSNS set who met at Abbey House Gardens in 2010 are still on here?

Cheers,
nib

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General Naturism Discussion / Re: Safe Search

« on: December 09, 2023, 12:44:45 AM »

I use microsoft Edge - faster thn Google, annoying in different ways, equally good and annoying as any of the other engines.
I searched thefreerangenaturist and https://thefreerangenaturist.org/ and got to your site fine.  Searching The Free Range Naturist gets no result for your site on the first page oddly (I got Nigel Nib's site on that page though!).  You maybe need to do a bit of SEO!
Safe search permanently off on my browser btw.  I too object to being 'nannied' by large corporations!
John

The weirdness of Internet searches! I wonder why it found me?

Cheers,
nib

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Free Range Naturism / Re: How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

« on: September 14, 2022, 04:13:26 PM »

Not so much a month. I keep a score of days with some outdoor naturism, and have done for about 15 years. I've just reached a record though, 100 consecutive days. That doesn't happen often with typical UK weather, but the heatwave and drought have made this year different.

nib

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Free Range Naturism / Re: Press

« on: August 19, 2022, 02:28:56 PM »

Does BN have an organization of naked hiking?
Jbee

British Naturism does not have a separate organisation for naked hiking, but it does support it. One of its member clubs specialises in naked walking and walks are often organsied from BN's major festivals.

nib

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General Naturism Discussion / Re: Coping with Unusually Hot Days.

« on: July 23, 2022, 11:12:14 AM »

Here in Milton Keynes, a little north of London, I got 38C in the garden max, but only 20% RH at the hottest time. We survived!

But everything is wilting, we have had only 2mm of rain so far in July and that was weeks agio.

nib

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Free Range Naturism / Re: How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

« on: June 01, 2022, 12:08:25 AM »

It was a middling May for me. I score days with anything from time in the garden long enough to finish a crossword, or with a naturist event (including indoor) up to a full day at a club as one day, and this May came to 19, when a really good May came to 30.

The frustrating bit was that we spent a whole week of brilliant sunshine on a cruise boat on the Rhine and Moselle. That had its own compensations, but no naturism!

https://www.nib-kit.co.uk/CMSimple/?Sunbathing_Score

Cheers,
nib

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Suggestions and announcements / Re: Wither Freerangenaturism.com?

« on: March 21, 2022, 06:38:54 PM »

Nib!
Really good to hear from you.
I take it from your reply that you keep an eye on the forum.  We'd love to hear more from you, occasionally at least.
Return to our midst!
What's the BN angle?  Are you on their board or one of their committees?
John

Hi again!

Can't remember when I last posted! But yes, I was on the Executive Committee of BN for a few years, now just involved in my local region.

As for naturism, these days it's mostly in the back garden, beaches and BN-organised events.

Still a member at Spielplatz but not been during the plague years.

Have you noticed the new BN Sun-Folk near St Albans? It was a member club but it's now run by BN and available for day visits and camping from April to October. Not free range but a pleasant day out!

Hope you are keeping well. Long since retired, I'm still going in to work now and again!

Cheers,
nib

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Suggestions and announcements / Re: Wither Freerangenaturism.com?

« on: March 18, 2022, 07:53:16 PM »

...The other naturist I know with a website (Nigel 'Nib' Bromley) similarly has had rather fewer additions these days as opposed to the ancient days (= about 2010!) 

Yes, not much on the website recently, more direct contribution to British Naturism. Though less of that lately.

nib

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General Naturism Discussion / Re: UK London restrooms go gender neutral

« on: January 07, 2019, 08:40:56 PM »

This had them walking between the stalls and the men using the urinals on the opposite wall, but nobody was bothered.

Or, nobody was brave enough to object and tell the ladies to go away.

Happens all the time in France and no-one ever seems to object!

And of course it's quite common in a French loo, even in small places such as restaurants, to find a woman at a table down there collecting money.

In a tourist spot it Italy once there was only the one bog, or at least one entrance, and one long queue, and inside a set of WC cubicles on one side and a set of urinals on the other. The attendant was going along the queue sending men to the front saying "men come forward please - no queue for men" in various languages. (And assuming that there were no shy men!).

nib

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Free Range Naturism / Re: Free Range naturism gains legal acceptance in Scottland.

« on: October 23, 2018, 08:54:43 PM »

Whatever the acronym SANER stands for it is an appropriate one.
...

It's the Scotland And Northern England Region of British Naturism!

Cheers,
nib

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General Naturism Discussion / Re: Naked Gardening and Naked Gardening Day

« on: April 09, 2018, 06:01:18 PM »

Wow, Blue train!
Deer in the suburbs?  Where abouts do you live?.
There are plenty of deer in the uk but the chances of finding one in a suburban garden is tiny-fractional!
John

Not zero though! Once when I was staying overnight in my father's house in Walton-on-Thames, I saw a big deer in the back garden, late evening. I was indoors looking through the glass doors and it was about 20 metres away on the lawn. It looked at me and I looked at it for a few minutes, but when I turned to pick up a camera it ambled away into another garden.

House was usually empty, father in nursing home.

nib