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Post by Rabbit on Jun 20, 2017 19:45:47 GMT
Blimey, she's off!! Didn't know she had it in her!!!!
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Post by Crispy on Jun 20, 2017 20:13:57 GMT
Blimey, she's off!! Didn't know she had it in her!!!! Ian I did a lot of canoeing when I was in the army, canoed 60 miles down a Norwegian Fiord once. Brilliant until you hit a rogue wave and it capsizes you, then the key is not to panick. I hope she has done the capsize drill in the pool? Different again when out at sea. I remember capsizing in the sea off the Scottish coast and I did panick, nearly broke my leg trying to get out in a hurry I am not trying to frighten you or Lucy and hope she keeps it up it is a lot of fun
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 20, 2017 20:57:30 GMT
She's pretty confident in water. We had her swimming as a baby before she could walk, but I do worry about 'overconfidence' in water. When I've been diving on the sea, she's often followed me out from beaches and I have to get her back!! Funny because as a kid, I didn't like deep water because of what might be underneath, but she doesn't have that fear.
I don't think she's done the roll over in the canoe, so at the moment, she's just paddling around in the pool. Nice to see her trying new things. She'll probably want to get a canoe when she gets home!!!
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Post by Mr Trev on Jun 21, 2017 0:44:08 GMT
Sorry about being sooo Canadian, but that's a kayak not a canoe Spend many a summer on the end a paddle myself. Great way to enjoy the outdoors
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 21, 2017 6:19:27 GMT
Well, at first I called it a boat and Lucy told me off!! If it floats it's a boat......
I was thinking of getting my diving gear and a drill.........
She was horrified!!
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Post by marveltone on Jun 21, 2017 16:27:11 GMT
I love being on the water. I've canoed, kayacked, and water skiied on more lakes than I can count. Lucy looks like she's doing great!
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 21, 2017 17:26:40 GMT
She's pretty confident in the water so she was looking forward to having a go. She has tomorrow to go and I pick her up on Friday. I bet she's anxious now!!
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Post by ronzo56 on Jun 22, 2017 1:38:53 GMT
Guess why I didn't mind the heat here in the summer when I was a kid. I was in the water more than out. Lots of my friends had pools, then we got one. Plus we have two rivers, used to raft down those, and a lake only about 30 minutes away. Got my scuba diving license when I was 16 and used to dive in the Pacific Ocean at Monterey Bay. Think I was a squid or fish in a previous life. Lucy looks like is having fun. Better set aside a little something for that kayak Ian.
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 22, 2017 5:47:02 GMT
I spent a lot of my childhood on a canal, Ron!! Either fishing, swimming or building rafts.
I used to walk around barefoot on the bank sometimes and once, I slipped on a piece of glass that ripped the bottom of my foot open. It was literally pumping blood and I couldn't get up or walk and some guy walking along the bank came and got me. Took off his shirt and tied it tight around my foot and carried me a couple of miles to a doctor. I was just a little kid but boy, did that hurt.
Used to catch big perch on a hand line from the raft!!
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Post by ronzo56 on Jun 22, 2017 13:55:26 GMT
Not to sound like an "old guy"', but sometimes I think we had more fun having unstructured time to just hang out by the river or pool. You had to get outdoors. Only 3 T.V. channels and they had soap operas on. No Internet or gaming systems. Board games were for winter nights. Today I see so many kids who have a calendar on their phones to keep track of their "schedule". Can't imagine too many parents today letting their kids hang out somewhere unsupervised with no cellphone and near a body of water. Times do change.
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 22, 2017 16:24:27 GMT
I go back a bit further, Ron. In the U.K., we had BBC and ITV. They came online in the afternoon with 'Watch with Mother' and finished with 'God Save the Queen'!! No nighttime or daytime tv. Just afternoon and evenings.
I think as kids, we had a lot more freedom and activities were more kid organised rather than these incessant clubs and activities that we have to take kids to nowadays. I used to go out in the morning on the weekends and not come back home until teatime.
Not exactly the same when I lived in Belfast but times were a bit dodgy there in those days. We still had a lot of freedom though and I used to go to a snooker hall with my cousins for a lot of the day!! We had to go around in crowds.
I often met other kids from the opposite religion who would promptly ask me my name to find out what I was, because I lived close to a border between two religions. I had to try and work out what they were and I'd give the right or wrong second name, depending on what religion I thought they were. If I got it wrong, there would be terrible fights which I dreaded because it was really dangerous. There were also big iron fences up the middle of the road with Catholics living on one side and Potestants on the other. Often, petrol bombs came flying over if the other side heard noises!! We also had the British Army patrolling with guns.
When my family came to England, I lived in the middle of nowhere so I was gone for most weekends, fishing, trainspotting, boating on the lake or canal on home made rafts, swimming in the local recreation ground, cricket with other kids on the green, train spotting even about 15 miles away in Reading, where I also went fishing in Caversham Locks until I got a scare.
I caught a big fish and couldn't get it up. I had a daft little rod in those days. Luckily for me, the fish got off but one of my friends' parents told me that in Victorian times, some woman was mudered on Caversham Lock and thrown in. They never found her and he was having me on that I might have been pulling her up.
I stopped going there after that.
Another daft thing I did in Reading while trainspotting on the station was to board the Blue Pullman train. It was an electric blue colour and had sliding doors which was really modern for those days. The bloody doors closed while I was looking around and the train shot off and didn't stop for a very long time. I think I ended up somewhere in the midlands or up north because everyone had an accent.
Using my brains, I crossed the line and got on the next train going back. It actually got me back to Reading and I arrived home late, in the dark. Got a right telling off and I daren't tell my Mum what had happened. I was only 12 or 13.
So times were very different really. Lucy gets taken everywhere and checked on!!!
Another amusing thing that happened in Frimley Green, where I lived was down in Frimley, there used to be a Tudor house. It was a wreck and as a kid, I used to go and look around inside. Still old bits in there scattered but it was mostly wrecked. One day, I heard a sound upstairs so my friend and I ran for it. When we got out, I saw a red haired woman at the upstairs window waving at me. She was in a Tudor dress and for years, I had the willies about the place.
I only found out from my Mum just before she died that there used to be a transvestite who wore a red wig and he had nowhere to live and it must have been him. I kept it secret for over 40 years!!
Every bonfire time in November in the U.K., I used to blow up cow pats with bangers, which is a firework that explodes. I also used to shoot rockets from a drainpipe, like a bazooka at all kinds of targets!!
So although I had a lot of freedom, I was quite naughty. (I think I still am though!!)
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 22, 2017 17:56:18 GMT
Blimey, Lucy's onto lakes now ....
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Post by ronzo56 on Jun 22, 2017 19:35:22 GMT
Yes. Very different times now Ian. Both good and bad, as with a lot of things in life. We had adventures of our own making then. Some of them a little dangerous. Now we go to theme parks to have adventures. At a steep price. My word, have we even monetized childhood? BTW, your on the hook for a kayak. Just take a look at that grin! As they say on another site, "sorry about your wallet".
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 22, 2017 21:51:48 GMT
Yes, it looks like I might be buying a kayak for her some time soon!!! She looks like she's having a great time. Picking her up tomorrow so we'll see. Just nice to see her trying things out tbh. (Other than music and dance)
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Post by ronzo56 on Jun 23, 2017 0:45:45 GMT
She's already expanded her horizons. The trip seems like a great idea. Good luck in the future.
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