04/05/2010
First 4 from the “Wirral News”, last one from the “Wirral Globe”.
SUNBATHERS NOT WANTED.
May 28 2008
CAN I make an appeal to those women “of a certain age” in Seacombe and Egremont who insist on sunbathing in bras in their front gardens?
Can’t they do it in the privacy of their back gardens instead? They look as if they need ironing.
J J PRESCOTT,
WALLASEY
WHY I WILL CARRY ON SUNBATHING.
Jun 4 2008
I WOULD like to reply to J J Prescott’s letter “Sunbathers not wanted”.
I live in Bebington and I sunbathe naked in my garden. I am probably in the “certain age” category that JJ Prescott mentioned and unfortunately not everything stays where it is meant to when I undress.
I presume from his attitude and reference to “ironing” that he is not “of a certain age” and that he has a perfectly toned and sculptured body with a truly defined “six pack” and he never removes his top in the sun. I am sure if the person sunbathing was a gorgeous, toned model of a young woman he would not complain.
As it is my garden, I have every right to sunbathe and people do not have to look. If it repulses J J Prescott that much, then why does he insist on continuing to look - or is he just a dirty “of a certain age” man!
JULIE DAVIES,
VIA EMAIL
A QUESTION OF GENDER
Jun 11 2008
I FEAR Julie Davies of Bebington has missed my point.
Of course, she has every right to sunbathe naked in her back garden.
However, she is wrong to imply that I am a “dirty old man” - for one obvious reason.
MISS JOYCE JASMINE PRESCOTT,
WALLASEY
DEBATE INSPIRED ME TO BARE ALL.
Jun 11 2008
WHILE J J Prescott and Julie Davies may hold opposing viewpoints, they both deserve congratulations for re-introducing the subject of nude sunbathing to the News’ letters page.
This last occurred during the heatwave of 2006 when a correspondent wrote in to say that she was one of a group of schoolgirls who used to watch a motorcycle girl who habitually sunbathed naked in her garden in Vyner Road, Liscard, some 25 years earlier.
It turned out they were not the only ones to have noticed her - she must have been an attractive girl!
A flood of highly entertaining letters on the subject followed, including one from the sunbather herself who assured readers that she hadn’t turned into a frump over the intervening 25 years.
One point of debate concerned whether she had been wearing very brief briefs or had been absolutely naked. The evidence of a correspondent from Rotherham who, as a youngster, had used binoculars to observe her from a neighbouring house, proved beyond doubt it was definitely the latter.
These events took place well before I was born. I am normally a very shy person but oddly enough, the bold actions of the motorcycle girl all those years ago inspired me to sunbathe topless for the first time with my friend in the seclusion of her Heswall garden, which was brilliant.
Sadly, the awful weather of 2007 gave us little chance to sunbathe, topless or otherwise.
Here’s hoping this summer will be a lot warmer!
CAROL ANN WALSH,
NEW BRIGHTON
YOUTHFUL FOLLIES. (from “Wirral Globe”)
REGARDING Tory leader David Cameron's alleged drug taking while at Oxford, there seems an undercurrent of opinion that, since it would have occurred a long time ago when he was a young student, it is irrelevant to his current position.
I sympathise with this point of view. Youthful follies can bounce back occasionally. Last Summer, a friend of mine from Wallasey was embarrassed when she read in a local paper (not the Globe) that mischievous schoolgirls had watched her from a neighbouring house on a regular basis when she sunbathed totally nude in her back garden - almost 30 years ago, when she was in her late teens!
Why, after all that time, should she have felt such shame? An individual's trivial mistakes, such as these, should be put down to inexperience. They have no bearing on life today.
A.C. (Miss),
Name and address supplied
Poster:
Geraldine June