Happy New Year, everyone.

I’m up and about in both RL and SL this morning after our Hogmanay supper last night, and was delighted to find a store called MH design with a lot of free gifts, particularly as several would certainly fit right into my naturist wardrobe, the items I’d put on for dinner following a long hard slog in the sun all day! 😉

These are perfectly styled dresses suited to any naturist’s evening wear or, in the case of the bottom photo, something to throw on for the trip to and from the beach.

Naturists like to eat well, in a variety of world cuisines, and whatever naturist resort and campsite I’ve been to they pride themselves on turning out some delicious tasting and presented food. The French sites will focus on local produce, while in Spain there’s a lot of fish restaurants, produce locally caught, and world and fusion cuisines. I’ve eaten in a variety of world cuisine restaurants -not as easy as it sounds for a vegetarian as Spanish restaurants will (I’m not kidding!) serve ham in a vegetarian meal because ‘it’s a vegetable’! Go figure! I’ve often been looked on pityingly because I can’t eat meat. ‘Is it an illness?’, I’ve been asked. For some of the photos I hopped over to a Japanese restaurant called Free Tibet to take the photos of me wearing what would be typical evening wear for myself on holiday.

Once again, the style just says ‘naturist evening wear’ for me in this lovely purple dress with bare shoulders.

Another of MH Design’s is a jumpsuit…

I wouldn’t wear this because it’s not really my style, but you will see naturist ladies wear something like this at night time.

Curiously, it’s the rear view, more than anything, that puts me off. While I’ll happily be nude on the beach all day, I wouldn’t dream of going out in something like this. This style of evening attire, and also even more revealing outfits, might be typical of a naturist’s wardrobe if they were heading off to somewhere like Cap d’Agde, where anything goes! But I wouldn’t have the mindset to ever dream of wearing something like this.

All of the gifts are free, and there’s no Group join fee either, so hop along to MH Design.

I’m taking the rest of the day out of SL, and going out with the family, but SLN will be back during the week, kicking off our 2017 naturist postings with a look at some lesser known, or semi-hidden, naturist locations (i.e. sims that are more of a ‘clothing optional’ persuasion) around the grid.

Ella

January 1st, 2017 finds me in Lupe’s, quiet and contemplative. There’s no actual RL hangover, thank goodness, but I did have a couple of glasses of bubbly at midnight and now find myself a bit sluggish and woozy. You know the feeling, yes? Not ‘hungover’, just a bit…sluggish, and not helped by going to bed at 100am and then having to listen to the thump of taxi doors until 300am or beyond. You know those taxis. The ones with what sounds like they’ve got 18 doors on them which have to be slammed hard in the dead of night just to ensure they’re properly closed. Oh! They have them in your town too?

Someone has to clean up too…

Brushing up the streamers and pine needles at SLN HQ

..after the table heaving with goodies, the banners, the Christmas trees and so on, it’s time to sweep clean and start the new year fresh. A good idea to make chores more pleasurable, when the weather is good enough, is to do chores nude.

I’ve already been for a walk in the park, where a few night revellers are still wending their way home, some still slightly the worse for wear.

I’m currently listening to the New Year’s Day concert live from Vienna, broadcast right around the world on radio and on TV, and after a cup of tea I’ll drive to the coast for a long walk with my S.O, followed by dinner in a country pub, somewhere deep in the English countryside. Lovely. Hopefully the weather will actually approximate winter, rather than this awful ‘bad summer’s day’ weather we’ve been experiencing lately.

I’m looking for a lovely summer, some naturist experiences, already planning my holidays, and looking forward to a year’s worth of positive naturist-related blogging.

Happy New Year, one and all, wherever you are in the world.

Diane