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Posted by Kayne on March 18, 2020 at 11:25:55

We have a load of friends from school staying at the moment. Four are staying here and two with Charlie at his place down the lane from here. All the boarders from school are staying with friends except those from the same class that mixed with Carl and his parents when they returned from Italy after half-term, and they are all holed-up in the boarding house. School announced on Friday that it will remain closed to all day- and remaining boarding pupils until the Easter holidays are due to start. We are getting school work on-line from our teachers and tutorials via Skype on a daily basis, which seems to be working well. As of Friday last no-one has gone down with the "dreaded lurgy". Everyone's parents have been brilliant at putting up with their unexpected house-guests, particularly Chris' mum and uncle Dan and aunt Mary who are looking after the four guys staying with us. (Chris' dad is staying put at work in Germany for the time being rather commuting weekly.)

Teachers are giving us so much work it is almost as though they think being at home we can work 24/7! So it's not been quite the easy time that some of us thought it might be. Charlie, Ian and Rob have been coming to us each day and the eight of us have been working around the big table in the pool area. After the first day of dressing in jeans and tees and all ending up soaked at some point in the day, we opted for swim-shorts and tees as the easiest way to compromise - you can at least do school work in wet shorts after drying off enough with a towel whereas things get soggy if you try that in sodden jeans and shirts - although our attire has surprised a couple of our teachers until we turned the camera around to show them the pool area, when they just grinned and said how envious they were.

Anyway, a week ago Saturday we decided it would be fun to "de-stress" by going out in the woods and getting as muddy as we could. It was bright and sunny first thing and not as cold as it had been, so once Charlie, Ian and Rob arrived after breakfast we headed out. The four guys staying with me are Dave, Paul, Wes and Craig. I made a note of what everyone was by taking a quick photo on my mobile of each of us, with the intention of doing a "before" and "after" shot.

Dave: slightly faded blue Levi 501s, red tee with a grey sweatshirt over, blue socks and briefs, black trainers. Paul: well worn grey jeans, blue and grey check flannel shirt, grey socks and boxer-briefs, red trainers. Wes: banana yellow trackies, grey sweatshirt, black socks, orange boxer-briefs and yellow trainers. Craig: pale blue denim jeans, mid-blue sweatshirt, navy blue briefs, red socks, blue trainers. Ian: black jeans, black tee under a grey sweatshirt, black socks, briefs and trainers. Rob: baggy khaki cargoes, green and brown camo-pattern sweatshirt, khaki boxer-briefs and socks, dark green trainers. Charlie: old and faded blue jeans, black and red check flannel shirt, red striped boxer-briefs, red socks and grey trainers. Me: my favourite old 501 jeans, a plain grey flannel shirt, black briefs, blue socks and grey trainers.

Before we left the pool area, Charlie and Craig managed to end up in the pool after a friendly argument about who was strongest, Charlie tried to pick up Craig - but failed to get both his feet off the floor - so Craig picked up Charlie easily and then dumped him in the water, but when Charlie kept a hold of his arm they both fell in, so were soaked to the skin before we had even set off.

We headed to the flooded dell first and everyone went for a swim after swinging out on the rope over the water and splashing down, but the water was too cold to really enjoy fully so we went to the swamp area and held a series of races, two at a time to see who could wade across the quickest. Ian was the quickest by far, somehow he seemed to be able to move through the mud without getting bogged down, unlike the rest of us who all ended up almost completed covered from the chest down, as Ian's reward for winning we dumped him in the deepest, sloppiest part so that he sank without trace, causing much hilarity when he emerged like a monster from the swamp, completely soaked and caked in sloppy mud, the only clean bits being his teeth and eyeballs. He must have enjoyed it as he was grinning from ear to ear. Wes and Craig were so impressed that dived in as well and then the three of them set about dragging, pushing and throwing the rest of us in the mud. We stayed wallowing around in the mud for quite a while as it seemed warmer submerged than being out standing around. Some of us went and played around the obstacle course, getting cleaner in the watery parts and muddy again as we did each section. The best part was splashing down in the mud from the monkey bars and seeing how big a splash we could make.

Everyone enjoyed being so muddy and it was fun seeing the others splashing around without a care about being so filthy. We scooped up handfuls of mud and dumped it over each others' heads, threw it at each other, pushed it own shirts and trousers and generally made sure everyone was covered thoroughly inside their clothes as well as the outside. Paul even stripped to his boxer-briefs and dived into the swamp, before asking us to throw him his clothes so that he could get dressed again whilst submerged. We always suspected that Paul was mad, this just proved it. It seemed a bit too cold for anyone else to join him despite the sunshine.

We went back to the house via the stream, wading along in the water as it varied in depth from knee deep to chest deep. We all got thoroughly soaked and mostly clean as we stumbled along and by the time we got to the little bridge where a path leads back up to the house, we had all used the water to wash mud out of our hair and off our faces as well so we didn't have to hose ourselves clean before going into the showers. A warm shower has never felt so good after the very cold water of the stream. We spent the rest of the day in the pool, had our lunch sitting at the table in our wet clothes and then spent most of the afternoon lazing around or playing a game of water handball, still in our wet clothes, which was good exercise and quite exhausting; you don't realise how much extra energy you use moving around the pool in heavy wet clothes rather than swim-shorts until you actually try it for half an hour.


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