How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[Davie]

I had a walk yesterday. It started fine and sunny, then clouded over and finally it snowed! After a few minutes walking naked in the snow I relented and put some clothes on. As it happens I was almost at the end of my planned route. Despite the weather it was a good, and to say the least, an interesting first walk of the year.

Davie 

[jbeegoode]

Gotta respect your tenacity/preference/etc., Davie. I get just a little breeze on a spring day and cover my torso. I'm spoiled, used to the heat to a point of being comparatively sissy.

Does this come under the heading, "Variety is the spice of life?...Naturism?" It is going to be 72 later this afternoon and we're considering climbing a local hill/mountain nude, with trepidation.
Jbee

[Davie]

I can take cold easier than heat. Once the temperature gets up towards 30 degrees C I start to wilt. Perhaps being brought up in a cold house makes me this way.

Davie 

[MartinM]

I haven’t been on a run since some time before Christmas. With a thin covering of snow yesterday I went for a ski and  the weather was nice enough that I was almost tempted to do some naked ski-ing, but it was very busy with walkere and cyclists and the ski-ing was limited with many rocks showing through.

Instead, I headed up to a tarn to go ice-skating. I passed several swimmers going the other way in their dryrobes etc and when I got there, there was a small crowd skating. When I got on the ice and skated around, I found there was another group, or rather two groups, of people who were taking it in turn to swim in a couple of ice holes they had cut and various others swimming in the open water at one end. They asked if I wanted to go in, but I thought at first I would leave it until I had finished skating. It can be difficult to get boots on when your feet are cold, and I am not used to wearing anything on my feet.

In the end it was too tempting. I waited until a few of them left and then told one of them that I would have to skinny dip before moving the floating ice plug that they had put back in when I was dithering. They weren’t in the least bit bothered, so I just too off my skates, clothes and slipped in. The water was lovely, feeling almost warmer surrounded by 4 inch thick ice. Getting out was a bit more tricky and require two or three attempts. After failing with the bounce staight out into a seated position (I slipped straight back in) I resorted to the less dignified beached walrus technique and sprawled, rolling naked onto the ice. I dried off, got dressed and put my skates back on, just in time before a friend came over with his camera phone. A few moments earlier, and my exploits would no doubt have been recorded in our next cross-country ski-ing newsletter!

[jbeegoode]

Newsletter?! Stuck slipping around failing to get sucked back into an ice hole naked would have gone viral.

So, how many weeks did it take for you to find your genitals after they retreated?

Would you do that again? would you recommend it to a friend? To an Enemy?
Jbee

[nuduke]

At new year I did a great little thing to bring in the new year.
It began about 2 or 3 years ago when in a mad moment I made some christmas decorations out of the cardboard tubes from toilet rolls (bath tissue) as a joke which we have been using at christmas ever since!  I also made a whacky sculpture.  Here is a picture of it




If you look carefully in the background, reflected in the dark windows, you can see me naked taking the picture.  I sent this to my sons, not realising that I was there in the background.  This caused them a lot of hilarity.  They don't really know I'm a naturist but they do know that I go naked in the house more than my wife likes!
Anyway, back to the story.  That Christmas we had the sculpture standing in the house and after Christmas I couldn't bring myself to throw him out.  He languished in the corner of a room looking rather like the effigy of a pagan deity, I always thought, until this year when I dug him out and it suddenly struck me - pseudo Pagan fire ceremony to welcome in the new year!  Because of lockdown there was only my wife and I at new year so I announced that since the tradition in many pagan religions at new year was to kindle lights, bonfires, fireworks etc for a winter festival that we could have our own in the garden by setting light to my pagan deity and dancing round him naked.  She smiled and agreed although, as I found out later, she hadn't clocked the naked bit.
So on new years eve, just before midnight I undressed and went out to plant my sculpture in the middle of the lawn between a few bricks.  I then undressed and my wife joined me in thick coat and boots and was pretty cross that I was intending to do it naked.  However, I calmed her down and she realised it was a harmless amusement and grumpily let me go on with my plan to dance around the ignited cardboard man.  And so I did, brining in the new year with a pagan wish for a better 2021. 





Silly, I know.  But a bit of fun nevertheless and thereby I wish you all a happy new year.
"What are you going to do with these pictures?" She asked. I replied that I would keep them like any pictures and look back to remember this new year. 
"Don't you dare put this on the naturist forum" she admonished.  "Don't worry, dear, I won't." I lied.  Sorry dear, couldn't resist telling the naturist guys about my whacky new year escapade!
John

[John P]

Nuduke, your stunt there makes me think simultaneously "Festivus pole" and "Burning Man".

It's always nice to see pictures of our friends here doing their typical crazy stuff!

[Safebare]

Textiles don't seem to understand that photos with clothes off are normal to us. The ones with clothes on are unnatural. I think its imperative to keep an eye to creativity and expression.  It doesn't always come easily, but the juice is always worth the squeeze. 😆😆
~Safebare

[jbeegoode]

"A Christmas Story" the leg with the lampshade, a piece of art mortifying the spouse as it sits at the front window on display...hmmm?

I for one find this burning an inspiration. My friend collects old Christmas trees and pianos to burn each year. There must be enough to create a burning sculpture over the course of each year. I'm gonna get my collection going. Looks like a fine tradition. It can be paired with the letting go of all of the other sh.....

How very appropriate!
Jbee

[nuduke]

Now there's a project!  If we all collect finished toilet roll innards all year and glue them up into a sculpture and set it alight on New Years Eve 2021/2 and compare notes!  Anyone up for that?  Or is it too pointlessly silly for words?
John

[jbeegoode]

I'm in! I've got a long Christmas paper roll and one from TP, already pulled from the recycle bin.

Fun ain't pointless. Burns are big fun.

I don't know how many rolls of cardboard that I can use in a year, but I'm just two blocks from the police station. It can't be too big a fire, banging drums and wahoo. 


Dec. 21st solstice/yule, or Dec.31st. As things are going, it will show up very soon again. It will become a tradition. Perhaps I can make a sweat ceremony around it, a fundraiser.

OOh! drop a balloon of acetylene and oxygen on it and rattle the houses like a cannon, mushroom cloud, burn baby burn...maybe not that.
Jbee

[jbeegoode]

Motherload in the waste basket! I've found four rolls from TP. Recycle, reduce, reuse!
Jbee

[nuduke]

We always seem to have lots of tubes as we recycle them from a waste bin in the bathroom.
And we're big shitters in our house! 
John

[jbeegoode]

A portion of ours are prematurely unhinged as they become smaller, less bulky and then to be placed in a ziplock to be in a backpack to be used on the trail.

We used paper towels, but DF less so, as she considers them to be bad for the planet. I'll have to have a look at the recycle bin as it is collected to see what other non-toxic sculpture materials get tossed that could be burned.

DF bought a real tree this last Christmas. When the needles fall off, only branches remain which might accommodate structure for a roll burn. I stashed it behind her shed to cure...Perhaps that would leave enough to function like a yule log...ya got me thinkin'...always, there are too many paper grocery sacks to reuse...gun powder, firecrackers?...keep it simple Jbee.

What could be used for color?

Yup, I'm considered a big A-hole muh self.
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

Since installing a bidet more than 10 years ago I no longer use paper to smear.   Washed and clean always feels much better.   I'm going to have to pass on your use of old rolls.