The Lounge

[AWB1955]

Hi everyone hope your all keeping safe and well. Have a good day and enjoy your weekend

[Kitty-Cat01]

Morning! Have a good day

[Green_Eyed_Girl]

@Kitty-Cat01 We will be passing through it for a while yet. Its just hits its peak right now. But its a nice dense one so should still be good for the next week the moon just after new moon here too, so means it’ll be nice and dark in the sky.

[Kitty-Cat01]

Thanks! I’ll take a look if the weather is good tonight x

[wildflower]

Last night started well here, clear sky, loads of stars visible and I saw two shooting stars around 11.30 pm before the cloud swept in. It did clear again for a while and I saw a few more , one of them was quite big! But by 1.30 am the cloud was a thick blanket so that put paid to any more viewing.

[KentCouple1990]

Hope everyone is having a lovely evening

[Silkyhat]

I’ve not been on much recently but for those of you struggling with stress and anxiety (@Alyssa646 @PleasureDrone), ‘coherent breathing’, also called ‘resonant breathing’ might be something to try.
Basically this is a paced breathing technique. You breathe in and out for 5-6 seconds each: slowly breathe in for 5-6 seconds, then slowly breathe out for the same length of time. That’s all there is to it.
You can time your breathing with an app (“The Breathing App” is free on the App Store, a metronome or a soundtrack - there are even a couple on Spotify (look for the album Respire-1 by Coherence). Here’s a video tutorial (Try Coherent Breathing with Dr Richard Brown & Patricia Gerbarg MD! – Guided Resonant Breathing - YouTube), also links to theory and research here.
There are lots of other useful meditation and breathing apps, too - here’s a list: The 5 Best Meditation & Breathing Apps To Reduce Anxiety - The Good Trade)

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[Alyssa646]

thanks for that @Silkyhat excellent advice, realising I’ve been doing the breathing technique slightly wrong, worse still recommended trying it they links are going to be handy too, appreciated hun​

[carzy]

After some advice from all you hot tub/spa owners what’s the quickest way to be able to use hot tub after it’s been cleaned

[PleasureDrone]

Just channel-hopping and landed on “Take-off with Bradley and Holly” on BBC1. There’s a repeated design on the walls of the set that, to me, looks overtly sexual! Lots of open “mouths”. Go see for y’selves!

[WillC]

Too late to check now!

[PleasureDrone]

It’ll be on iPlayer!

[Silkyhat]

Hey @Alyssa646 you’re welcome. I hope it helps xx

[Kitty-Cat01]

I don’t think this question really warrants a topic of it’s own but I wondered what you thought about this…

I have a work residential, let’s call it a team building event for simplicity. I have my own room but shared bathroom facilities. In a way, I’m quite looking forward to a couple of nights on my own but I’m not a fan of these sorts of trips generally. I’m basically wondering whether to take any toys with me. I wondered if people would risk taking a small dildo (nothing vibrating) and some sex toy wipes (I’m not risking the possibility of me leaving a dildo in a shared bathroom by mistake!! ) so…

• Yes, risk it!
• Don’t be daft, that’s inappropriate!

[Cupc8kes]

@Kitty-Cat01
I don’t see why not - it doesn’t effect anybody else x

[Baby_Jane]

I would definitely take something! It would help you unwind, and being that these team things tend to happen to promote wellbeing and boost morale, one could argue that you’re going above and beyond by taking extras

[Kitty-Cat01]

@Baby_Jane

promote wellbeing and boost morale

I love this! It will definitely be promoting my wellbeing.

@Cupc8kes, I find staying in new places with people I don’t know very well stressful so you’re right, it will be a more fun way to relax that spending ages trying to do breathing and relaxation techniques (although I’ll probably do them too)

[MsSubExperimenter]

I find having a play can help me unwind so go for it. You have a room to yourself so take advantage of it!

Take whatever you want - other people will just be jealous if they hear anything .

There’s nothing inappropriate about it

[PleasureDrone]

YES - and you really mustn’t worry about the vibrator thing. Vibe toys never make as much noise as we think they do. None of mine are anything like as loud as my electric razor, for example. If you use a vibe toy under a duvet no-one’s going to hear a thing through a closed bathroom door. If you’re still wortied about it, put the radio/TV on.

[Kitty-Cat01]

I’m not a big fan of vibrating ones anyway so I’m quite happy with a standard dildo! Vibrations are nice but not all that important, having said that I do have one vibrating one that I like but all my others are non-vibrating.