The All Over Tan

This made me laugh on the BBC news website today. Judging from the BBC's feedback on the feature the general consensus of the people of Great Britain was that the man making the video of the hapless nude sunbather was the one who should have been charged, not the sunbather herself.

When I was a child our neighbour was a single woman who also liked to sunbathe in the nude (also a nurse, oddly enough). For several months in the summer my brother David and I used to look forward to the sun coming out so we could spy on her through the holes in the fence. Sometimes my brother used to invite his friends around so they could take a look too. I think some money may have changed hands, but I am not entirely sure about that.

The man with the video camera claimed he was shocked for his children's sake, but I have to report that we suffered no long-lasting psychological damage. In fact it may have contributed to my brother's choice of career - not an entrepreneur or a publisher of men's magazines, as you might expect, but a doctor. I like to think that peeping though the fence that summer awakened an interest in the anatomy of the human body.