17 blog hits in the last few days...26 2 3
One of these ladies my Finnish lady wife with red hair red scarf!
From countries as wide apart as Vietnam (7), Bangladesh (1), Brazil (1), Pakistan (1), Senegal (1), the USA (1), Other (5). When normally I can go many days at a time without getting a single hit... So what was different to encourage my audience to get curious to read more from my on-line type-writer?
Adorning my blogs with pics from the different homes i have inhabited perhaps one factor?
Filling my blogs with home spun philosophy perhaps another?
But today i'll tell you what i have been up to so far when you'll all get to decide whether it was just a one-off or whether it will keep your interest alive and keep re-visiting????
So this day began again with my walking the 1-2 km to our changing hut on the Baltic Sea shore in the south of Finland. Key to gain access: men to the left, women to the right inner doors.
But like yesterday and Sunday the 1st Feb and 31st Jan before that today I was again the only visitor. So again I had to hack through the ice at the bottom of the steps on the sea side of the changing room since for this past week the sea has been low in height so the pump to keep the water flowing was too high and out of the water to cope, and so froze solid, inoperable! N.B. The Baltic Sea has very little tide, wind perhaps a bigger factor determining height...
But going for a swim every day is something i have been doing since i retired 16 years ago, and the release of endorphins by one's body as a result becomes so addictive it becomes almost impossible to give it up. In my case even for a few days.
Part of the secret is in doing it every day so that one gets used to any discomfiture a long time ago. Now picture me a lonely man descending the steps, 2 metres down to the sea armed with a crowbar: heavy metal at its business end, pointed to faciltate breaking the ice formed overnight in temperatures of -17 degC, a wooden shaft at its other, to facilitate wielding it in and out of perhaps an inch or 2 cm of new ice fully clothed, and so quite hard work one begins to sweat in the process.
Then back to the heated (+22 degC) changing room to get undressed; removing my two sets of underwear, a pair of boxer shorts, then a cotton pair of Long-johns after removing my outer garment of down-filled flying trousers. Similar attire above, with long cotton vest then heavy-duty flannelette shirt with Alaskan Puffer down-filled jacket and hood covering my head kept warm with a Napalese woolen hat with ear coverings.
19 05 Taking pics of before the dip and after the dip in daylight lighting in order to capture the effect of the -2 degC water however quickly one was immersed in it for the effect is to get one's blood flowing so quickly one's body gets to appear like a cray-fish cooked in boiling water: a bright red colour showing one off in the hut mirror contrasted to the white person before immersion in the-2 degC sea!.
Thereafter i want to return to the sea opening to remove all the broken ice so as to make my job easier tomorrow when i know I shall return for my next dip.
Have a good day everyone!
From countries as wide apart as Vietnam (7), Bangladesh (1), Brazil (1), Pakistan (1), Senegal (1), the USA (1), Other (5). When normally I can go many days at a time without getting a single hit... So what was different to encourage my audience to get curious to read more from my on-line type-writer?
Adorning my blogs with pics from the different homes i have inhabited perhaps one factor?
Filling my blogs with home spun philosophy perhaps another?
But today i'll tell you what i have been up to so far when you'll all get to decide whether it was just a one-off or whether it will keep your interest alive and keep re-visiting????
So this day began again with my walking the 1-2 km to our changing hut on the Baltic Sea shore in the south of Finland. Key to gain access: men to the left, women to the right inner doors.
But like yesterday and Sunday the 1st Feb and 31st Jan before that today I was again the only visitor. So again I had to hack through the ice at the bottom of the steps on the sea side of the changing room since for this past week the sea has been low in height so the pump to keep the water flowing was too high and out of the water to cope, and so froze solid, inoperable! N.B. The Baltic Sea has very little tide, wind perhaps a bigger factor determining height...
But going for a swim every day is something i have been doing since i retired 16 years ago, and the release of endorphins by one's body as a result becomes so addictive it becomes almost impossible to give it up. In my case even for a few days.
Part of the secret is in doing it every day so that one gets used to any discomfiture a long time ago. Now picture me a lonely man descending the steps, 2 metres down to the sea armed with a crowbar: heavy metal at its business end, pointed to faciltate breaking the ice formed overnight in temperatures of -17 degC, a wooden shaft at its other, to facilitate wielding it in and out of perhaps an inch or 2 cm of new ice fully clothed, and so quite hard work one begins to sweat in the process.
Then back to the heated (+22 degC) changing room to get undressed; removing my two sets of underwear, a pair of boxer shorts, then a cotton pair of Long-johns after removing my outer garment of down-filled flying trousers. Similar attire above, with long cotton vest then heavy-duty flannelette shirt with Alaskan Puffer down-filled jacket and hood covering my head kept warm with a Napalese woolen hat with ear coverings.
19 05 Taking pics of before the dip and after the dip in daylight lighting in order to capture the effect of the -2 degC water however quickly one was immersed in it for the effect is to get one's blood flowing so quickly one's body gets to appear like a cray-fish cooked in boiling water: a bright red colour showing one off in the hut mirror contrasted to the white person before immersion in the-2 degC sea!.
Thereafter i want to return to the sea opening to remove all the broken ice so as to make my job easier tomorrow when i know I shall return for my next dip.
Have a good day everyone!
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