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Welcome. This is the first post, so let me tell you what this place is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a place for my life in waders \u2014 bog walks, atmospheric mornings out, and the everyday done fully kitted out. I love the gear, I won\u2019t pretend otherwise, but what I want to share here is where it takes me: sometimes deep into a bog, mud to the chest, washing off in the river afterwards; sometimes just pulling on a pair of chest waders to do something completely ordinary, and seeing how the day goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You won\u2019t see my face here. That\u2019s rather the point \u2014 full-coverage gear is total presence and zero identity, and I like it that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is, by all accounts, the hottest day of the year. Which is exactly the sort of day you\u2019d think waders would stay in the cupboard. They didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:30 in the morning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m up at 4:30 every morning. It\u2019s the best part of the day \u2014 quiet, cool, completely still, and the only time I get properly focused. It\u2019s also, conveniently, the only sensible window to put on chest waders when the afternoon is going to be brutal. So that\u2019s what I did: a bit of focused work, and a cool, peaceful early start in full kit before the heat arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting up shop on the hottest day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a certain irony to it: I registered lifeinwaders.com<\/a><\/strong> and got the hosting set up today, of all days \u2014 the hottest day of the year. Call it fate. The site will run on WordPress, and this post is the very first thing on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m down in Cornwall, which means it\u2019s a touch cooler here than most of the country right now \u2014 but only a touch. It\u2019s still going to be a hot one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning\u2019s gear<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I reached for my go-to pair: a well-worn set of Vass safety chest waders<\/strong>. They\u2019re the older style \u2014 dark olive green with bright yellow straps and proper industrial safety boots. By a long way my favourite pair. I\u2019ve worn them so much I\u2019m honestly not sure I\u2019d trust them in deep water anymore; I suspect there are a few holes by now. But the material is lovely \u2014 flexible, properly hard-wearing, and they just feel right<\/em> to wear. Years ago I put a set of fairly expensive insoles in them, and they\u2019ve held up beautifully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underneath, just thermal leggings \u2014 which sounds mad in this heat, but it\u2019s actually a fairly cool combination, and it\u2019s what works for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staying cool in waders when it\u2019s 30 degrees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wearing chest waders on a day like today is, I won\u2019t pretend otherwise, a bit of a struggle. But there\u2019s a trick: spray them down with a bit of water and the whole thing cools right off. I\u2019m planning to try exactly that later, once the day really heats up \u2014 I\u2019ll report back on how well it holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the idea of this place, really: the days out \u2014 the ordinary ones and the muddy ones \u2014 and sharing how they actually go. There\u2019s a lot more coming \u2014 clips, photos, and plenty more mornings like this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stick around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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