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.
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”.