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Today I have been swimming in a lake for the first time in about five years and the first time ever that wasn't in Minnesota. It was awesome, probably the best time I've had since quarantine started, and now I'm exhausted and I'm going to bed even though it's not even ten o'clock yet. It's gonna be great.

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ludy

Yay!

From:

softfruit

Where!? (Otherwise I will assume The Secret Lake, which I can't help despite never having been there assume is going to have scary Levenshulme toxins)

From:

cosmolinguist

On no it was nowhere near here. We piggybacked on a plan some of

diffrentcolours's friends had already made to do this. Apparently people can go swimming in the Secret Lake, but yeah I don't think I would. Even if it was clean it isn't going to be as well-managed as I'd like the experience to be right now. The location is ideal for me though!

From:

jesse_the_k

Whooooooooo!

A lake without loons?

From:

cosmolinguist

Well, probably not once I got into it. ;)

From:

jesse_the_k

turn down the volume

From:

askygoneonfire

Yaaaaaaaaaaay

I'm so glad

From:

otter

That sounds so refreshing. Lake swimming brings on the perfect kind of exhaustion on a hot summer day.

From:

cosmolinguist

It is, which is why I first talked about doing it on the hot summer days we were having a few weeks ago: it is my instinct as a Minnesotan to want to go jump in a lake then! I knew by the time we'd planned it the English weather would have betrayed us. Yesterday was so rainy and cool when we left but we had to go far enough that the weather cleared up and warmed up. The lake was still freezing when you got into it (but fine once you started swimming) and we heard thunder a few times when we were in the water. But it was still good. :)

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annofowlshire

Sounds wonderful. May it be the start of more great days :)

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cosmolinguist

Gosh I hope so too. It started a conversation when I got home about how swimming in the local gym might possibly be done safely enough that Andrew (who's still shielding regardless of what the government says) would be comfortable with me doing it, and that would be a real game-changer for my mental health.