this still makes me feel like emptying my guts
When i was just a nipper, during those long summer breaks from school, me an my mates used to cycle about 3 miles thru the country side to a river that meandered thru fields as far as the eye could see. We fished, swam and generally frolicked away for hours until the sun went down.

Our favourite thing to do was float down the river on lilo's, airbeds and the like until we got to part of the river that widened into a big pool with branches overhanging into the water and fallen trees lining the edge.
We would dive off the trees and swim down to the bottom seeing who could dive down the furthest (it was pretty deep, i never managed to touch the bottom).

On one occasion, probably the last time we went, we were diving away having much fun, one of my mates dived into the water and was making a record breaking attempt to reach the other side underwater, he surfaced at the edge coming up under some overhanging branches, what greeted him was inches away from his face, a large, dead cow, rotting away in the water, poor thing had probably tried to get a drink and slipped in. The parts of the cow above water were covered in maggots. We left soon after.

I still wonder how many mouthfuls of water i might have swallowed that day before the grim discovery......
(Duke Fucknuts ate toast and fanny batter on, Sat 23 Jun 2007, 21:12, Reply)