What are YOUR tips for other Sploshers?

[MessyGuyNC]

I think it'd be nice to have a thread with everyone's recommendations of what to do and what not to do.....

For instance (I'll start) I have never been into the mud aspect of WAM. But I have recently found a terrific mud hole on my property and have decided to start experimenting with it.

Well today (just got back), I managed to clear out a very nice area of sticks and branches and began wiggling in deeper. Well deeper is a relative term.... the whole actually is only 2ft deep so I actually have to lay in it rather than wade in it, but back to my story....

I down down and laid in till the mud was up to my neck which is where I planned on stopping. Well once in there, I just HAD to go all the way. Before I left I had gone as far as dunking my head deep in the wonderful mud.

So here is where my tip comes:

Always bring ear-plugs!!! Even if you think your will keep the mud below your neck, bring and wear ear-plugs!

I already feel the beginnings of an ear-infection because I decided to go crazy. But it had never occurred to me (until after) that I would need earplugs to protect myself.

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Ok so that is my advice.... what else is out there? IT doesn't need to relate just to mud. It can be wam recipes, clean-up tips, things not to do, etc etc

[matt2matt2002]

Good tip

Continuing the 'plug' theme...
always remember to keep the plug in the bath plug-hole.

You may think you have flushed everything out of the bath but chances are - stuff will become lodged in the pipe.

And there's nothing worse than a bunged up plug 'ole.
Right Bill?

[BillShipton]

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And there's nothing worse than a bunged up plug 'ole.
Right Bill?

Strangely prescient comment as I'm due to have a colonoscopy in a fortnight!

[wamram]

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And there's nothing worse than a bunged up plug 'ole.
Right Bill?

Strangely prescient comment as I'm due to have a colonoscopy in a fortnight!

I had one yesterday

Back on topic clean up the mess you've made before you clean up yourself 'cos if you clean yourself first it's sods law you'll get messy as you clean up the bath etc.

[driversoft]

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And there's nothing worse than a bunged up plug 'ole.
Right Bill?

Strangely prescient comment as I'm due to have a colonoscopy in a fortnight!

Hmm - wonders if there's such a thing as a semi-colonoscopy - wonders too much, and falls into a comma....

[BillShipton]

Hmm - wonders if there's such a thing as a semi-colonoscopy - wonders too much, and falls into a comma....

I already have a semi-colon. Some of it was removed in an operation for Crohns Disease 13 years ago.

[matt2matt2002]

One of my old girl friends had Crohns - and I know it's a terrible thing to have Bill

All the best mate.

[DungeonMasterOne]

All the best with the op, Bill.

My tips:

1. If going out to play fully clothed in the mud, before going fill a couple of empty 2l coke bottles with hot water straight from the hot tap, and then use them to wash your hands clean, and get the worst of the mud out of buckles, zips, etc, when you come out of the mud. The water will keep most of its warmth, and its much easier to remove mud-caked clothes with warmed-up fingers, and mud-clogged zips and belts open much easier when flushed through with warm water.

2. When playing with gunge indoors, esp if more than one person is involved, make sure the entitre room is messproofed, and not just where you expect mess to go. I did a shoot a month or so back where Nurse Wendy suddenly decided to land a custard pie (large ASDA flan base filled with real custard and squirty cream) on Lady Full-Wellington's behind with maximum force. The impact nearly knocked Lady FW over, the results looked spectacular - and pie filling went *everywhere*! We even had to hose down the ceiling after that shoot.

[BillShipton]

One of my old girl friends had Crohns - and I know it's a terrible thing to have Bill

All the best mate.

Had crohns for about 15 years and I am very lucky, no pain etc. just go to the kharsi a lot (and fart a great deal in bed as Hay will tell you). So no need for massive sympathy for me.

Sorry to interrupt, lets get back to the tips...

[matt2matt2002]

Sympathy for the ol' devil?
Not me mate

Get back in that pie where you belong!!

[muddy_clothes]

Mud is actually a pretty good natural "soap" and can take away many a smell from other wammings.