All angles covered after the bank holiday with chat and commentary plu a chapter from the wonderful book about the nurses in the trenches and a recording of the Entertainer by Tale Teller Club.

hello gorgeous listeners welcome to royal clarence radio now then i'm not going to lie to you the weather is not looking great hello romeo romeo the studio camp has arrived it's because i'm talking he thinks i'm talking to him now then what are we gonna do about this weather i don't know well the thing is we live by the sea and when you live by the sea you're you're very much open to the elements because that's great for sailing isn't it perfect weather for sailing but not so perfect for sitting in deck chairs on the beach so there's no none of that i doubt today i was cold water swimming for a bit uh the beginning of the year and it turned out to be not my thing i liked the idea of um getting half naked and dipping myself into something that was going to improve my mental health and i gave it my best shot guys i really did but i found on two occasions my core temperature plummeted and i was actually quite ill and i just thought after the third time i thought no i'm going to give it a wide berth i'm going to stick to dunking in the summer in the summer months and funnily enough i haven't dunked once this summer for various reasons and but there's a big thing for cold water swimming and there are a couple of groups and i met some lovely people while i was doing it and there are a couple of different groups at stokes bay now the best way to find these people you've got to seek them out um the best way to find anything that's going on in gosport is through facebook if you put in your facebook i mean i don't much like facebook either but you know needs must if you search cold water swimming there's a group a more national group and somebody will pop up and say oh i'm part of this group in at stokes bay i don't think they have their own group specifically so you have to sort of go and sift around same with the sailing you have to go to a sort of national group and then you know they'll point you in the right direction or somebody will pop up and say hey we've got a thing we're doing at stokes bay so that's the best way to find them um anyway i found a bunch of lovely lovely people chap called simon who was a great sport and um beverly and they were swimming by just opposite the second part carpark along there and they'd meet twice once a day depending there are two tides now i looked up why there are two high tides but i'm no scientist and i find these things freakishly nonsensical but it was something to do with the world tipping and if you have a bowl and you tip it twice morning and night you see the swell rises no it didn't make sense to me either really well it did at the time as when i was reading it but i didn't absorb it enough so that i could actually tell anyone else about it but anyway that's why there are two high tides so these guys go out either in the morning or in the evening depending on which time is more humane so um so a couple of them were far too early for me personally i like these sort of 10 o'clock to midday swims or this seven o'clock at night ones and so you have to check the times don't do it on your own never ever ever go cold water swimming on your own apart from it's lonely it's also quite dangerous you can get very cold and you can incapacitate yourself very very quickly and actually get hypothermia and as somebody who's tried cold water swimming i know what that feels like and there was a point where i couldn't actually swim and i'm quite a strong swimmer but your body just goes into shock you know and everything becomes so numb that you don't know what you're doing with it you've got to train up for these things and wearing a wetsuit is advisable because with the first time i did it i didn't wear gloves and my hands felt the pain is something in quite unlike anything else i've ever experienced...