Unfortunately the wall in question is right up against the street, so there's literally nothing that can be done about it.

Still I suppose it's pretty good to have during the winter.

Yeah, I'd say it warms the house up good in the winter.

I just wish I could switch the blasted thing off during the summer

Line it with mirrors or solar panels, lol.

Heh, I think the council might get annoyed if I turn the house into a hazard to motorists

And those solar panels wouldn't last a week before someone nicked them.

I believe it, they are expensive, lol.

Maybe I could cover it in tinfoil and tell everyone that I'm protecting it from the influence of alien mind control

Tin foil is reflective, so it will cool down the house - and you can call it art!

Been to da beach twice so far this year

...

I've never liked the beach.

Lucky !!!!

How far away is this beach?

200 miles or 200 yards?

It is like fast travel in Beth games. It is all relevant.

Me neither. When I was younger, I would dig my hands deep in the mushy mud and let the clams nibble at my skin, but Galveston beach has so much glass and stuff that it's hard to do that now. It's so trashy.

I do enjoy walking around sunset, searching for sand dollars and shark's teeth, though. My family has a superstition that if you found a shark's teeth, you would have a lucky month. If you found a fully intact sand dollar, you would have a blessed year. I've always nearly found a shark's teeth, but my brother would find it after I lost it, and I've only found partial sand dollars.

But open water scares me. If I can't see to the bottom, I don't want to go in. I once stepped on a flounder...twice... my mom said she's never seen me sprint up to the shore so fast in her life, lol

Then there was a time when my brother got pinched very close to his special man parts XD

I just get freaked out by large quantities of water. I can't even go swimming. The second I get in the water I tremble uncontrollably from head to foot, so much that my teeth chatter. Swimming lessons when I was at school were nothing short of torture for me.

Sometimes I challenge it by seeing how long I can endure standing on a bridge over the river in the park nearby.

And that last part had me wincing

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It cracked me up, lol. he was like seven, and he was such a little jerk at that age. Every age. My brother is a jerk still. So for me it was sweet, sweet justice lol

I can do pools. That's about it. But I don't go on boats, I don't allow my son to go on boats, nothing lol

I'm still wincing I can't help it, I'm a guy.

Urgh. Don't talk to me about boats. I get very seasick. The only time I've been on a boat I was literally green when I got back on land. And that was just going down the Thames.*shudders*

We used to go on my grandfather's boat, but for some reason I suddenly became afraid of water. I can't place when, though. Nothing particularly terrible happened.

That's kinda weird. Maybe something did happen, but you've blocked the memory of it?

But can we move on from the subject of water? I don't mean to be rude or anything, but it's giving me goosebumps.

Yeah, sure.

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh.

*Shuffles feet. Looks around aimlessly*

I really should have thought of a topic to switch to...