Yes, you read that right. Beetley has been inspired by the spirit of Rio’s Copacabana beach, well at least one tiny part of this small village has.
It’s a nice day today. Blue skies, and sunny. But it’s not that warm, as a chilly easterly wind is keeping down the temperatures. Walking around with Ollie was pleasant enough, but I still needed a light jacket, and rubber boots for the mud.
Halfway down the main path at the centre of Hoe Rough nature reserve, I suddenly noticed someone coming toward me in the distance. It looked to be a young woman, but with the interesting addition of being naked.
At that point, I should have of course done the decent thing, and taken one of the smaller paths to the right, thus avoiding encountering her.
But you can guess that I did no such thing, I’m sure.
As she got closer, I could see that she was actually wearing a (very) pale pink bikini. If you could actually call it that, as it consisted of three small triangles of pink cloth, barely covering her ample assets, which were wobbling like the proverbial jelly-on-a-plate. She was talking on a phone, and using small headphones. Making no effort to avoid me, she continued in the same direction, until I could make out that she was at least wearing something sensible, a pair of stout tennis shoes on her feet.
I moved off the path to allow the requisite Covid-19 social distance of six feet, and even Ollie did a double take as she walked past. The rear section of her swimwear consisted of little more than a pink bootlace, most of which was lodged deeply in the cleft between her buttocks.
I couldn’t help but wonder where she had come from, and where she was going. She had no handbag of any kind, and was not carrying car keys. I can only presume that she must either live nearby, or be staying with someone in Hoe or Beetley. Whatever the answer, she certainly livened up a dog-walk.
And it made a change from spotting Muntjac Deer.
Well, that must have made your day. What a surprise is probably an understatement. Best to you, Pete. π
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It was very unusual, it has to be said.
Best wishes, Pete. :
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I would say so. Best to you, Pete.
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Crikey! But you don’t dress that way without expecting a few glances!
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True, Rich. But there was only me and Ollie around to glance. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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I needed to laugh – thank you!
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Glad you laughed. I was startled. π
Best wishes, Pete. x
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An you without your camera! Warmest regards, Theo
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I think I need to start carrrying my phone. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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I was in need to laugh too, Pete! :-)) Yes in future you have to carry your smartphone with you. Beetley’s history need this things to be saved in internet. Think on the future tourism, Beetley can get. Lol
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Yes, it should have been recorded for history, Michael. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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Ha! This sounds like one of your dreams. Well, you don’t see that every day!
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Ollie turned and looked, so I know it wasn’t a dream. It was a very unusual sight for Beetley, that’s for sure.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I hope you noted the time of day, it may well be part of her daily exercise routine…to be repeated π
On a boat on holiday once we came across a beach that was been used as a set for an adult movie, we asked the skipper to get closer π
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I wondered about a film or TV ad. But she was a ‘normal’ young woman. Not particularly attractive, or made up like a model or film actress. I know what time it was, as that is now imprinted in my mind. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’d have said you were hallucinating but if Ollie noticed her, too, then I guess she was real. I’m a firm believer in not casting clouts until May is out and feel cold just thinking about her dress – or lack of it.
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She definitely was not a hallucination, Mary, I assure you. I thought she must have been very cold, but younger people are usually hardier than me. π
I thought it mst be a film, or an advert being made, but there was no crew or cameraman anywhere.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Again a character right out of your fiction and endowed as you prefer!
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Maybe I imagined her, Elizabeth? Or perhaps she was a vision from one of my stories? If Ollie hadn’t have seen her too, I might have thought that. Could be she was Burger Babs, come to life! π
Best wishes, Pete.
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I thought she sounded familiar!
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Happy days! ππ
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Made a nice change from Swans and Deer! π
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’ve seen girls on the Las Vegas Strip who wore nothing but pasties and a postage stamp. But I wouldn’t mind seeing a British bikini rambler in the rough.
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We say ‘on’ Hoe Rough, David. ‘In’ Hoe Rough would be something very different! π
Best wishes, Pete.
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The ghost of “The Girl From Ipanema” is in Beetley – who would have ever thought, eh?!!
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Years ago, Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian lady who turned “The Girl from Ipanema” into a hit, performed that and other songs in a free outdoor concert at Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri. There was a small but appreciative audience, and I was right there in it.
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I loved her voice, David. Bet that was a good concert. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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A night to remember!
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She was a lot curvier than Astrud, GP. And very ‘English-looking’ too. It was the swimwear that made me think of Brazil. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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Well thatβs certainly an unexpected sight in Beetley! π
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You can say that again, Kim. Still hard for me to believe it. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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Heehee. Close encounters of the best kind! Same time tomorrow?
π
Nest from hibernation.
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I suspect such a wonder is only seen once in one lifetime in Beetley, Frank! π
Best wishes, Pete.
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Haha… reminds me of the bloke I met last June walking on the Lizard – hard not to look! Maybe they are related π
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It was as if she was on holiday in some exotic location, walking from the beach back to the hotel. Very strange. I looked around for a film crew, convinced it must be an advert or something. π
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Do you guys have mushroom hunters after a rain? She might be trippin’ LOL chuq
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She definitely had her senses about her, chuq. If not much else. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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Then that would make the walk more memorable….chuq
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Bet that got the old heart pumping, lol
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To be honest, Jacquie, I was more surprised than excited. This is Beetley, after all. When I lived in Camden, I wouldn’t have even noticed her. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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I do sometimes wonder why people nowadays seem to dress as if they were in the gym all the time, but I hadn’t seen anybody dressed as if they were at the beach, although… Perhaps that will be “the new normal”, Pete. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks, Olga. Even on a very hot day, it would be most unusual. She must be hardier that me. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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What a hoot!
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I can still hardly believe it happened, Sue. Of course, I didn’t have a camera. As usual! π
Best wishes, Pete.
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Well, you would have been a voyeur!
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True. π
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She was the ghost of Hoe Rough. A phantom vision in pink that may never walk that way again …
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If it hadn’t been for the phone call, that would be a nice idea for a story. π
Thanks, Stevie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It was a phantom phone call to the “other side.”
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Looks like you might have a new neighbor, Pete! She may have moved onto “The Block!”
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Never seen her before, John. Wouldn’t mind seeing her again though! π
Best wishes, Pete.
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Since you actually have a community named Hoe, my bet is on that one!
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I don’t think we have any ‘working girls’ in Hoe. They would starve for lack of customers! π
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoe,_Norfolk
Best wishes, Pete.
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The things you see when you don’t have a gun! π I don’t support hunting of any kind, just for clarity. Cheers, Jon.
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In this case, I would have liked to have been carrying my camera! π
Best wishes, Pete.
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Ha! I was thinking the same thing!π
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Me too!!
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My Ouma used to say this!!
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what an encounter, Pete! love this line: “even Ollie did a double take as she walked past.” cold and rainy here but happy Sunday! ππ
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Yes, it was funny that even my dog noticed something ‘different’ about her. π
Best wishes, Pete.
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