In message , Bob Hobden
writes
Athletes warm up before and warm down afterwards, we should do the same
short term and long term. Yes, we have enjoyed it for the past 20+
years.

When I was very young, I met someone who had been digging what was going
to become a swimming pool. It was a sort of muddy hole, with frogs in
it, and he had been digging it for 13 years! At the time this was more
than half my lifetime and seemed an age and I was appalled ... somehow
13 years doesn't seem quite so long now ;-)

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Klara, Gatwick basin