How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[nuduke]

Hi All, I just did an elaborate post about the Easter weekend being boring and describing my nude activity at the leisure club.  Something prevented the post being accepted so I lost the lot.  Maybe I'll find the motivation to build the post again but for now, take it that our decision to have a quiet weekend at home over easter is proving a bit boring so far and I'm finding it elusive to gather the motivation to do stuff I need/want to do.  At least I spent half of today naked but the temperature is a bit chilly so I've had to resort to donning a couple of garments
John

[jbeegoode]

Been there, too. I usually do longer posts with Word and paste it. Then there are those that take on a life and next thing ya know....

Anyway, I know that frustration and I'm looking forward to your recollection, hopefully before its detail and exuberation fades.
Jbee

[nuduke]

A sad story from me.
On one of our local social media sites for the last few days we have had a guy in a nearby village proposing to organise a charity naked coffee morning in his garden.  I don't know if he is a regular naturist or just had an adventurous idea for fun and in a good cause (Air Ambulance).  The responses have been many and various (including one of support from me) ranging from enthusiastic and supportive to the usual harmless negatives e.g. "ooer-rather you than me" and "I'll pass on a load of men's wobbly bits" - that is just jokey dismissal rather than anger or offence-taking.  I was about to send him a PM, as he requested, to gauge interest when I noticed a post from a guy I know in the village.  Not wanting to attract the attention of my neighbours, I decided to wait a while to see what develops and if the event gained legs.
Sadly, the organiser guy posted today that he is withdrawing the event because someone rang him at 2am this morning with a hail of evil abuse and bigotry.  I have no idea what was said but it put the guy right off that excellent idea which may have revealed who locally is a naturist and maybe got some good contact with fellow naturists going.


It was unfortunately a win for the bigots and I don't blame the organiser for retracting, given that the social media site in question does not publish personal details such as telephone numbers - so someone must have been pretty determined to find him to shower their unwelcome opinions on him. I hope there will be no further repercussions for him.  I might PM him and offer my sympathy and support for his idea and the disappointment that the forces of evil bigotry do not allow the benign and positive diversity that is in our society to flourish whilst the pernicious ugly weeds of the bigot's unwarranted opinions are allowed to choke the more fragrant but weaker flowers of progress.
John

[Greenbare Woods]

Sadly, the organiser guy posted today that he is withdrawing the event because someone rang him at 2am this morning with a hail of evil abuse and bigotry.  I have no idea what was said but it put the guy right off that excellent idea which may have revealed who locally is a naturist and maybe got some good contact with fellow naturists going.
John

That is a sad story.  2 AM is very deliberately abusive.  And finding his personal phone number did take some doing.  Most people would ignore it if they weren't interested in attending. Phoning at 2 AM is way more than a normal person would do.  This sounds like some kind of anti-nude zealotry, and perhaps religious based.  .

[Fellsnude]

Hopefully the guy who has been put off having the event will get lots of public support on the original site where he posted it, or will he just let it drop without saying why?

Meanwhile my month for FRN was non-existent, April 2023 being particularly cool and mainly lacking in sunshine around here. We had 5 afternoons when it was warm and sunny enough for 1 - 3 hours in the back yard, and that's it. The weather forecast is similarly cool and cloudy for the first half of May but there are hints from the forecasters that something better may arrive after that.

[jbeegoode]

Sad story?
A belligerent call at 2am rings to me like alcoholic blustering when the bars close and he has himself worked up with liquid courage and stupidity. Figgin' Karens need to leave alone. Sounds chicken sh..t to call and leave no number. All of the balls of a prank caller.
If the number can be traced, then you should make a point to investigate, confront and if no positive response, call 'em back at 3am.
I would be even more determined to have my garden party, after a minority attack like that. Ain't nobody's business but ma own.

Nuduke, this guy is a potential hiking partner. I'd chat him up, if in your shoes. He may be likeable. He may now know other naturists in your area.
Jbee

[jbeegoode]

Another month has come and gone?!

April had only one walk. I'm recovered enough, winter has passed, the season is on. We have B-days this month and several outings planned during the next two months, but haven't been out, but to the hotsprings as reported at the website recently. We did make a day cleaning up Redington Pass.The notion to be out in nature has been tugging strongly at me. It has me off actually.

My excuses are DF out of town half of the month and so many projects to do around the house. All is done nude, I have dressed only every few days when I have to leave, for food and parts. Latest is this week's Taurus B-day party on Saturday preparation.

Did four Sunday sweats, and two other's for out of town guests.
Jbee 

[nuduke]

Yes, Fellsnude,
Our naturist garden party guy got a lot of support even from people who had made 'witty' comments and expressed no interest in attending the event.  He's now thinking about having 2 single sex events! 
Also, yes, Jbee, I intend to pm him.  However, from the way he writes, it would seem he just thought the idea up afew days ago.  He may not be a naturist.  I'll report back!
John

[jbeegoode]

It has me curious. I'd like to know how this turns out.
Jbee

[Free hiker dave]

This has been a week of intermitted rain and lightning storms. While the weather has been good enough for nude yardwork, it's not been stable enough for hiking. My pale hide is slowly tanning. I watch the snow gradually fade from the Little Belt Mountains in the mornings at work. They are about forty miles southeast. Next week the temps will be climbing into the 70s and sunny. By then, the mountain pass should be free of snow. The third weekend of May is the opening of fishing on the upper end of Belt Creek. But the creek will be raging and muddy from snow melt until June. Right now, I am waiting.

David

[Davie]

You may recall the Danny Kaye version of the King's New Clothes. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HykF5KX4STA ) Well having just had a Coronation our walking group had a King's New Clothes walk on the Monday following the big event.

16 of us took part complete with mini Union Jacks attached to our rucksacks. It started with light rain in the air and the forecast was for more rain, but we got away with it. It was a bit chilly but about 14 of the 16 managed a fair distance walking across the suth Staffordshire countryside. A great way to celebrate wearing The King's New Clothes with a six mile ramble.

Davie 

[Fellsnude]

Davie - what a good idea!
Here's another take on the Emperor's New Clothes by the great harmony group Coope, Boyes & Simpson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_diarYfnKE

There's also a live performance video of it on Youtube but it's rather fuzzy and this audio only version is clearer.

Looking forward to a proper nude hike in Cumbria tomorrow - just working out if we can do it with a single backpack (with enough water!) so Mrs F will get naked too....

Fellsnude

[nuduke]

our walking group had a King's New Clothes walk on the Monday following the big event.

Brilliant idea, Davie!
Fellsnude, thanks for the link.  Never hear of Coope Boyes etc. Been listening to other of their tracks.  very good.
John

[Fellsnude]

Glad you like Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Nuduke. They were something of a one-off and very good at what they did. Shame Barry Coope died in 2021.

We did our walk on Saturday - both ridges around the Borrowdale valley in East Cumbria (not to be confused with the famous Borrowdale near Keswick). I had over 5 hours nude and Mrs F had 4 (which meant I carried the bag most of the way but it was worth it!)

Now hoping for some luck with the weather (forecast is good) for West Cumbria on Saturday and/or Monday.

[Fellsnude]

2023 was a better May than for some time. Finished today with a long afternoon on the beach at Silecroft - lovely nestled among the sea-kale at the top of the shingle bank but too chilly in the breeze for much nude walking. I did walk back nude, with the wind behind me - maybe 2 miles.
I've already reported the Borrowdale walk (see 18th May). As well as that we did one in West Cumbria with rather frustrating cloud which seemed to hover over the hill we were on while keeping clear of the next one over the valley only half a mile away! Mrs F stayed clothed for that one, and for the Ullscarf - Greenup Edge - Steel Fell one, on which I managed 4 miles nude. A couple of times previously I had regretted dressing to come down the Steel Fell ridge, which is quite visible from the main road north from Grasmere, but it's really too far for anyone to notice so I did it this time.
Two days ago we went to our favourite local "secret" spot and had a joint nude 5 mile walk with nobody closer than half a mile, on a public holiday! Then yesterday we did a linear walk from Troutbeck to Hartsop taking in 5 "Wainwright" fells. Even with an 8.00am start there were 20 or more other hikers on the ridge at various points, including a couple of family groups, so the wrap came in handy. I still managed about 5 miles nude but Mrs F was dressed except for our afternoon nap.
So that's 6 freerange days for me and 2 for her, plus some nice clothes-free time at home in the back yard.