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ROLLING IN THE DEEP (HORNSEA NEW YEAR SWIM)

(I'm sure Adele would like to team up with a singing talent like me!)

 

There’s a fire burning in my hearth

It’s warm there and it’s cosy – no need for gloves or scarf

But I must be demented and not right in the head

Or easily persuaded – I’m on the beach instead.

 

The wind it is howling and the waves are pounding in

My toe dips in the North Sea – it’s time I must begin

My nudger’s receded to the size of a pip

It’s threatened by the prospect of the Hornsea New Year Dip

 

I wade up to my cozzie still I’m confident and brave

But didn’t bank on being somersaulted by a wave.

Over and over as I did some backward flips

Whose bright idea was it to do the Hornsea New Year Dip.

 

By Christ it’s bloody cold

Rolling in the deep.

I tumbled and I rolled

Rolling in the deep.

 

My lips are blue and and my fingers and my toes

Have got no feeling and my cock has nearly froze

I try to stand but this shingle gives no grip

Whose bright idea was it to do the Hornsea New Year Dip?

 

By Christ it’s bloody cold

Rolling in the deep.

I tumbled and I rolled

Rolling in the deep.

◄ No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele

"Front or Back, Sir?" ►

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John Coopey

Tue 3rd Jan 2023 15:10

Ah ha, MC! But I had a plan.
I wore full length cycle shorts to simulate the effect of a wet suit with a t-shirt and kagoule over the top to try to offset the sea’s equivalent of wind chill.
But as Mike Tyson said “Everybody’s got a plan until you get hit in the face”!
And for “hit in the face” read “dragged backwards and forwards over the shingle by the undertow”.

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 3rd Jan 2023 14:24

Like Skinny dipping - or how to reduce the size of bodily parts?
I recall a swim in an outdoor pool out of season in Essex - and
still remember how the shock of the cold expelled the air from my protesting body and how I could barely draw breath to replace it as I struggled to pull myself out of the water.
You can keep your ocean frolics!

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John Coopey

Tue 3rd Jan 2023 14:15

I got my hopes up earlier today when I thought I got a voicemail from her, Stephen. Turned out it was Dell computers asking if I wanted an upgrade.

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Stephen Gospage

Tue 3rd Jan 2023 09:06

John, all you need after that is some smart Alec in a coat and scarf saying 'It's not worth it, you know'.

Mind you, it was that warm on New Year's Day here (15°) that the water might have been quite nice!

Has Adele been on the phone yet? It's only a matter of time.

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