Colour of the month challenge Oct 18

[Torchwatch]

This month's colour is grey, or gray to our American cousins.
In the days of the boil wash, white underwear and shirts used to stain to grey and black shirts would fade to grey.

While the rich wore white everyone else's clothes were stained and faded. The poor wore grey and grey became the colour of poverty.

The windrush generation arrived in London shortly after the war and coming from the Caribean found a country of grey skies, grey buildings and grey people. The buildings hadn't been painted since the beginning of the war and in a city that burned coal for warmth and power and ran steam trains everything was worn out and grimy.

With cleaner power, fresh paint and sythetic dyes and fabrics London is brighter and more colourful and grey has come back into fashion. The new in shade is anthracite for cars, tents and drain pipes.

So see what you can do with grey brief swimwear, include silver and pewter of course.

[Torchwatch]

Swam 1500m today at Strood in grey Nabaiji square cuts. I bought them at a campsite in France, my car rescue dropped me there last year when my car broke down. I'd packed some camping gear and clothes but left all my speedos in the car.

It felt strange swimming in square cuts as I usually swim in briefs, they look smart and I rather like the grey shade but the short legs on a square cut just doesn't feel right. Somehow they inhibit free movement. I've suggested to those who have only ever swum in shorts that they should try square cuts, but maybe they should go all the way in one go straight to swim briefs.

There were teenage boys arriving for training in black square cuts as I left, they looked good but I knew I was wearing dry, yellow Arena Santamarias swim briefs under my work trousers as I went home and they feel good at any time.

[Red^^Speedo]

Gray Speedo Solar, pool&patio chores

[Torchwatch]

Swam 1500m at local pool in grey Aussibems (Chinese fake Aussibums), swam quite well, felt better than the grey square cuts last week, the swim briefs look silver grey when dry but change to a charcoal grey as they get wet making them more opaque.
The briefs are well designed and well made, the company making them should stand on their own feet instead of riding on Aussibums back.

[lapswimmer]

Temps have dropped into the 40's the past couple of days making a dip in the hot tub most enjoyable. Wore my two-tone Neptune Scepter with steel grey and blue markings to meet the month's challenge. Was dark outside so made the shot on return to the house.

[Torchwatch]

Full marks, good effort .