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Stephan Caspar's avatar

oh no, how scary! I'm glad that everyone is okay :)

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Hedge Wytch's avatar

Eek!! Phew. So glad that she is safe. Brave girl. *Hugs you*

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Documentally's avatar

Correct on the brave. I’m very proud of her.

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Sarah Raad's avatar

How completely terrifying! I’m so glad you’d had that conversation. Xx

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Documentally's avatar

Me too. I’ve also started to see news stories in the area where things didn’t turn out quite so good. :-/

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Sarah Raad's avatar

Yep :( one of the horrors of summer. Especially the number of young men who die. Two boys drowned in the river near us, one trying to rescue the other

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Documentally's avatar

Yes, I had no idea how common it was.

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David Pejčinović-Bailey MBE's avatar

So glad your daughter is safe. I would have been losing it big time I think.

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Documentally's avatar

I was certainly frantic. And glad I didn't focus on the worst.

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Phil Pickin's avatar

Glad to read that you and your daughter got out of that situation ok. Must have been terrifying.

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Documentally's avatar

It was certainly that.

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Documentally's avatar

Thanks for the comment, Dan,

I have a 10 meter fibreglass pole for sticking antennas on but I’ve often use them for sticking a mobile wireless hotspot with a SIM card in. Maybe that is all you need.

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Dan Sumption's avatar

Jeeesus, how terrifying! So glad everything worked out OK. When my eldest was 4, we were with friends in Brittany, and found an incredible little beach where the waves tore in off the Atlantic. We spent a couple of very fun hours – us 5 adults an 4 kids, none of them older than 9 – throwing ourselves into the sea and enjoying being washing-machined about by the waves, totally out of control (most of the time we'd emerge with trunks pulled down to our ankles). In hindsight, it was a very dumb thing to do, and there's been many times since when I've thanked my lucky stars that none of us was drowned that day.

I'm very jealous of your pole. I've got a feeling that if I stuck my phone on the end of that, I could probably get a mobile signal at our house (I can get one if I walk about 200m up the road, where it's a little bit higher. Stick a hotspot on it, and I could probably stop paying Elon Musk £75 a month for our Internet connection 😁

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