I'm incredibly pale, and I don't really get a tan when exposed to sunlight. The skin gets some slightly olive hue, and that's it.

And yet still, I practically never get a sunburn.

liberator wrote:If you had shifted 20 tons of garden material, you should be able to speak, much less type

Eh? It's not that hard, y'know; I didn't lift it all at once.

It's not the shifting that's tough anyways, it's the breaking of the firebricks up with a bloody great mallet. My dad managed to negotiate taking a skip off of a local building site, so rather than pay £500 to dump it, we got their rubble to use to fill in a trench to level the back garden.

It's probably a good thing, cos otherwise we'd have had to buy 80-odd tonnes of soil instead.

'Course in 10 years when you go to plant something there, you'll wonder why it won't grow like you want it to.

Given that a) it's a lawn and b) we won't be living here in 10 years time, I couldn't give a s###

Still another 20+ tonnes of topsoil to add, anyways.

Lol.

I've got a light tan atm because its winter and I stay inside. That and I'm hooked on Eve. 0_0

Even with a nice tan though, you can get burned pretty easily without the right protection. Sun care is pretty heavily educated here. We got a big hole in the Ozone thanks to the rest of the world.