Abandoned - on Friday the 13th

Paul's words ring true, the gathering was sparse indeed.
Alex, Joan and Pete assembled on the beach, Joan running widths as always and Alex with his picnic rug laid out ready for a feast. Just as we lost hope of others, Ollie arrived with an infant in tow.  Some people will stoop to using members of their own family to escape a chilling dip.

Family Armfield then laid out not one but two rugs and sat back to watch the fun.  Sadly Hildi also had childcare issues in spite of managing to deposit one in Malta, she was left looking after Elsie, shame, we could easily have set up a creche on the beach - or they could have amused themselves while we all swam, after all what harm.....?

 Pete - already wet suited (yes Paul) was in first and prepared for some serious widths.  Pete was joined promptly as usual by Joan but  noted that he was well into width 3 before Alex had finished playing uncle and decided that he couldn't put it off any longer. Having done a long one the previous day, we can perhaps overlook the fact that he only appeared to be in for 5 minutes!

Pete was on width 6 (had to be even - can only see the shore when traversing East to West) when he realised that he was all alone and that the others were even now enjoying cups of tea.  Undeterred, he pushed on to make the first "width kilo" of the season - please note in club records.

The others had the decency to wait for long enough to check that Pete had not drowned but scarpered soon after, leaving him to enjoy sausage fingers and recalcitrant socks all alone.

In  - Pete 7:10  Joan  7:12  Alex 7:20

Out - Alex 7:27  Joan  7: 28  Pete 7: 37

Sea Temp - 9.5 degrees

Conditions - Half tide coming in, lovely and flat, no wind, smashing low sun