One sunny day at the beach!!!!!
Aug 1st 2004, 7:52 pm
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One sunny day at the beach!!!!!
Well, after my day at the beach.doing what I do best, thought I just had to write a few things down for lots of reasons!!!
You know how it is, the weather's good, the kids want everything in sight, so you take the beach option!
So knowing that the particular beach I wanted to go to, would be packed and the q's horrid unless you get there early, I left my home at 8.20am.......pootled along and arrived at my destination by 10.15am (having picked my dad up along the way).
Having picked a comfortable spot on the beach,
you settle yourself down nicely.......and watch....can't help it I am a people watcher....and boy do they amaze me
. Like the parent, who allows her 4 year old daughter to wander off and then spends 10 minutes, screaming at the top of her voice, because she can't find her
I know children do wander off, I to am a parent, but that's why you have eyes in your behind! You have to watch them.........then the family that turns up, who do nothing but moan at the children because they want a little bit of attention and want them to play, build those sandcastles, then the best ones are the family who don't arrive until 12.30pm, squeeze into the 2ft space next to you and then have the nerve to ask you to move over!
If I didn't need all this space, I wouldn't have it!
Having spent the day watching and thinking, the bits that get my goat the most..........are the people and I'm not just talking children here, but adults too, who insist on walking across your towels, jumping and running on your towels and just being downright ignorant
Why have we become like this........I know that all Countries have their good and their bad points....but why have we turned into a nation of disrespectful people, not only to others, but to ourselves aswell
It makes me realise that I really need to get out of the Country!
You know how it is, the weather's good, the kids want everything in sight, so you take the beach option!
So knowing that the particular beach I wanted to go to, would be packed and the q's horrid unless you get there early, I left my home at 8.20am.......pootled along and arrived at my destination by 10.15am (having picked my dad up along the way).
Having picked a comfortable spot on the beach,
you settle yourself down nicely.......and watch....can't help it I am a people watcher....and boy do they amaze me . Like the parent, who allows her 4 year old daughter to wander off and then spends 10 minutes, screaming at the top of her voice, because she can't find her I know children do wander off, I to am a parent, but that's why you have eyes in your behind! You have to watch them.........then the family that turns up, who do nothing but moan at the children because they want a little bit of attention and want them to play, build those sandcastles, then the best ones are the family who don't arrive until 12.30pm, squeeze into the 2ft space next to you and then have the nerve to ask you to move over! If I didn't need all this space, I wouldn't have it!Having spent the day watching and thinking, the bits that get my goat the most..........are the people and I'm not just talking children here, but adults too, who insist on walking across your towels, jumping and running on your towels and just being downright ignorant
Why have we become like this........I know that all Countries have their good and their bad points....but why have we turned into a nation of disrespectful people, not only to others, but to ourselves aswell It makes me realise that I really need to get out of the Country!
Aug 1st 2004, 8:01 pm
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SUE sat looking at the bare floor of the room, the house being little more than an old intramural cottage, and then she regarded the scene outside the uncurtained window. At some distance opposite, the outer walls of Sarcophagus College-silent, black, and windowless - threw their four centuries of gloom, bigotry, and decay into the little room she occupied, shutting out the moonlight by night and the sun by day. The outlines of Rubric College also were discernible beyond the other, and the tower of a third farther off still. She thought of the strange operation of a simple-minded man's ruling passion, that it should have led Jude, who loved her and the children so tenderly, to place them here in this depressing purlieu, because he was still haunted by his dream. Even now he did not distinctly hear the freezing negative that those scholared walls had echoed to his desire.
The failure to find another lodging, and the lack of room in this house for his father, had made a deep impression on the boy-a brooding undemonstrative horror seemed to have seized him. The silence was broken by his saying: "Mother, WHAT shall we do to-morrow!"
"I don't know!" said Sue despondently. "I am afraid this will trouble your father."
"I wish Father was quite well, and there had been room for him! Then it wouldn't matter so much! Poor Father!"
"It wouldn't!"
"Can I do anything?"
"No! All is trouble, adversity, and suffering!"
"Father went away to give us children room, didn't he?"
"Partly."
"It would be better to be out o' the world than in it, wouldn't it?"
"It would almost, dear."
"'Tis because of us children, too, isn't it, that you can't get a good lodging?"
"Well - people do object to children sometimes."
"Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?"
"Oh - because it is a law of nature."
"But we don't ask to be born?"
"No indeed."
"And what makes it worse with me is that you are not my real mother, and you needn't have had me unless you liked. I oughtn't to have come to 'ee - that's the real truth! I troubled 'em in Australia, and I trouble folk here. I wish I hadn't been born!"
"You couldn't help it, my dear."
"I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to 'em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!"
Sue did not reply. She was doubtfully pondering how to treat this too reflective child.
She at last concluded that, so far as circumstances permitted, she would be honest and candid with one who entered into her difficulties like an aged friend.
"There is going to be another in our family soon," she hesitatingly remarked.
"How?"
"There is going to be another baby."
"What!" The boy jumped up wildly. "Oh God, Mother, you've never a-sent for another; and such trouble with what you've got!"
"Yes, I have, I am sorry to say!" murmured Sue, her eyes glistening with suspended tears.
The boy burst out weeping. "Oh you don't care, you don't care!" he cried in bitter reproach. "How EVER could you, Mother, be so wicked and cruel as this, when you needn't have done it till we was better off, and Father well! To bring us all into MORE trouble! No room for us, and Father a-forced to go away, and we turned out to-morrow; and yet you be going to have another of us soon! ... 'Tis done o' purpose! - 'tis - 'tis!" He walked up and down sobbing.
"Y-you must forgive me, little Jude!" she pleaded, her bosom heaving now as much as the boy's. "I can't explain - I will when you are older. It does seem-as if I had done it on purpose, now we are in these difficulties! I can't explain, dear! But it - is not quite on purpose - I can't help it!"
"Yes it is - it must be! For nobody would interfere with us, like that, unless you agreed! I won't forgive you, ever, ever! I'll never believe you care for me, or Father, or any of us any more!"
He got up, and went away into the closet adjoining her room, in which a bed had been spread on the floor. There she heard him say: "If we children was gone there'd be no trouble at all!"
"Don't think that, dear," she cried, rather peremptorily. "But go to sleep!"
The following morning she awoke at a little past six, and decided to get up and run across before breakfast to the inn which Jude had informed her to be his quarters, to tell him what had happened before he went out. She arose softly, to avoid disturbing the children, who, as she knew, must be fatigued by their exertions of yesterday.
She found Jude at breakfast in the obscure tavern he had chosen as a counterpoise to the expense of her lodging: and she explained to him her homelessness. He had been so anxious about her all night, he said. Somehow, now it was morning, the request to leave the lodgings did not seem such a depressing incident as it had seemed the night before, nor did even her failure to find another place affect her so deeply as at first. Jude agreed with her that it would not be worth while to insist upon her right to stay a week, but to take immediate steps for removal.
"You must all come to this inn for a day or two," he said. "It is a rough place, and it will not be so nice for the children, but we shall have more time to look round. There are plenty of lodgings in the suburbs - in my old quarter of Beersheba. Have breakfast with me now you are here, my bird. You are sure you are well? There will be plenty of time to get back and prepare the children's meal before they wake. In fact, I'll go with you."
She joined Jude in a hasty meal, and in a quarter of an hour they started together, resolving to clear out from Sue's too respectable lodging immediately. On reaching the place and going upstairs she found that all was quiet in the children's room, and called to the landlady in timorous tones to please bring up the tea-kettle and something for their breakfast. This was perfunctorily done, and producing a couple of eggs which she had brought with her she put them into the boiling kettle, and summoned Jude to watch them for the youngsters, while she went to call them, it being now about half-past eight o'clock.
Jude stood bending over the kettle, with his watch in his hand, timing the eggs, so that his back was turned to the little inner chamber where the children lay. A shriek from Sue suddenly caused him to start round. He saw that the door of the room, or rather closet-which had seemed to go heavily upon its hinges as she pushed it back-was open, and that Sue had sunk to the floor just within it. Hastening forward to pick her up he turned his eyes to the little bed spread on the boards; no children were there. He looked in bewilderment round the room. At the back of the door were fixed two hooks for hanging garments, and from these the forms of the two youngest children were suspended, by a piece of box-cord round each of their necks, while from a nail a few yards off the body of little Jude was hanging in a similar manner. An overturned chair was near the elder boy, and his glazed eyes were slanted into the room; but those of the girl and the baby boy were closed.
Half-paralyzed by the strange and consummate horror of the scene he let Sue lie, cut the cords with his pocket-knife and threw the three children on the bed; but the feel of their bodies in the momentary handling seemed to say that they were dead. He caught up Sue, who was in fainting fits, and put her on the bed in the other room, after which he breathlessly summoned the landlady and ran out for a doctor.
When he got back Sue had come to herself, and the two helpless women, bending over the children in wild efforts to restore them, and the triplet of little corpses, formed a sight which overthrew his self-command. The nearest surgeon came in, but, as Jude had inferred, his presence was superfluous. The children were past saving, for though their bodies were still barely cold it was conjectured that they had been hanging more than an hour. The probability held by the parents later on, when they were able to reason on the case, was that the elder boy, on waking, looked into the outer room for Sue, and, finding her absent, was thrown into a fit of aggravated despondency that the events and information of the evening before had induced in his morbid temperament. Moreover a piece of paper was found upon the floor, on which was written, in the boy's hand, with the bit of lead pencil that he carried:
DONE BECAUSE WE ARE TOO MENNY.
(Jude the Obscure - T Hardy)
The failure to find another lodging, and the lack of room in this house for his father, had made a deep impression on the boy-a brooding undemonstrative horror seemed to have seized him. The silence was broken by his saying: "Mother, WHAT shall we do to-morrow!"
"I don't know!" said Sue despondently. "I am afraid this will trouble your father."
"I wish Father was quite well, and there had been room for him! Then it wouldn't matter so much! Poor Father!"
"It wouldn't!"
"Can I do anything?"
"No! All is trouble, adversity, and suffering!"
"Father went away to give us children room, didn't he?"
"Partly."
"It would be better to be out o' the world than in it, wouldn't it?"
"It would almost, dear."
"'Tis because of us children, too, isn't it, that you can't get a good lodging?"
"Well - people do object to children sometimes."
"Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?"
"Oh - because it is a law of nature."
"But we don't ask to be born?"
"No indeed."
"And what makes it worse with me is that you are not my real mother, and you needn't have had me unless you liked. I oughtn't to have come to 'ee - that's the real truth! I troubled 'em in Australia, and I trouble folk here. I wish I hadn't been born!"
"You couldn't help it, my dear."
"I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to 'em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!"
Sue did not reply. She was doubtfully pondering how to treat this too reflective child.
She at last concluded that, so far as circumstances permitted, she would be honest and candid with one who entered into her difficulties like an aged friend.
"There is going to be another in our family soon," she hesitatingly remarked.
"How?"
"There is going to be another baby."
"What!" The boy jumped up wildly. "Oh God, Mother, you've never a-sent for another; and such trouble with what you've got!"
"Yes, I have, I am sorry to say!" murmured Sue, her eyes glistening with suspended tears.
The boy burst out weeping. "Oh you don't care, you don't care!" he cried in bitter reproach. "How EVER could you, Mother, be so wicked and cruel as this, when you needn't have done it till we was better off, and Father well! To bring us all into MORE trouble! No room for us, and Father a-forced to go away, and we turned out to-morrow; and yet you be going to have another of us soon! ... 'Tis done o' purpose! - 'tis - 'tis!" He walked up and down sobbing.
"Y-you must forgive me, little Jude!" she pleaded, her bosom heaving now as much as the boy's. "I can't explain - I will when you are older. It does seem-as if I had done it on purpose, now we are in these difficulties! I can't explain, dear! But it - is not quite on purpose - I can't help it!"
"Yes it is - it must be! For nobody would interfere with us, like that, unless you agreed! I won't forgive you, ever, ever! I'll never believe you care for me, or Father, or any of us any more!"
He got up, and went away into the closet adjoining her room, in which a bed had been spread on the floor. There she heard him say: "If we children was gone there'd be no trouble at all!"
"Don't think that, dear," she cried, rather peremptorily. "But go to sleep!"
The following morning she awoke at a little past six, and decided to get up and run across before breakfast to the inn which Jude had informed her to be his quarters, to tell him what had happened before he went out. She arose softly, to avoid disturbing the children, who, as she knew, must be fatigued by their exertions of yesterday.
She found Jude at breakfast in the obscure tavern he had chosen as a counterpoise to the expense of her lodging: and she explained to him her homelessness. He had been so anxious about her all night, he said. Somehow, now it was morning, the request to leave the lodgings did not seem such a depressing incident as it had seemed the night before, nor did even her failure to find another place affect her so deeply as at first. Jude agreed with her that it would not be worth while to insist upon her right to stay a week, but to take immediate steps for removal.
"You must all come to this inn for a day or two," he said. "It is a rough place, and it will not be so nice for the children, but we shall have more time to look round. There are plenty of lodgings in the suburbs - in my old quarter of Beersheba. Have breakfast with me now you are here, my bird. You are sure you are well? There will be plenty of time to get back and prepare the children's meal before they wake. In fact, I'll go with you."
She joined Jude in a hasty meal, and in a quarter of an hour they started together, resolving to clear out from Sue's too respectable lodging immediately. On reaching the place and going upstairs she found that all was quiet in the children's room, and called to the landlady in timorous tones to please bring up the tea-kettle and something for their breakfast. This was perfunctorily done, and producing a couple of eggs which she had brought with her she put them into the boiling kettle, and summoned Jude to watch them for the youngsters, while she went to call them, it being now about half-past eight o'clock.
Jude stood bending over the kettle, with his watch in his hand, timing the eggs, so that his back was turned to the little inner chamber where the children lay. A shriek from Sue suddenly caused him to start round. He saw that the door of the room, or rather closet-which had seemed to go heavily upon its hinges as she pushed it back-was open, and that Sue had sunk to the floor just within it. Hastening forward to pick her up he turned his eyes to the little bed spread on the boards; no children were there. He looked in bewilderment round the room. At the back of the door were fixed two hooks for hanging garments, and from these the forms of the two youngest children were suspended, by a piece of box-cord round each of their necks, while from a nail a few yards off the body of little Jude was hanging in a similar manner. An overturned chair was near the elder boy, and his glazed eyes were slanted into the room; but those of the girl and the baby boy were closed.
Half-paralyzed by the strange and consummate horror of the scene he let Sue lie, cut the cords with his pocket-knife and threw the three children on the bed; but the feel of their bodies in the momentary handling seemed to say that they were dead. He caught up Sue, who was in fainting fits, and put her on the bed in the other room, after which he breathlessly summoned the landlady and ran out for a doctor.
When he got back Sue had come to herself, and the two helpless women, bending over the children in wild efforts to restore them, and the triplet of little corpses, formed a sight which overthrew his self-command. The nearest surgeon came in, but, as Jude had inferred, his presence was superfluous. The children were past saving, for though their bodies were still barely cold it was conjectured that they had been hanging more than an hour. The probability held by the parents later on, when they were able to reason on the case, was that the elder boy, on waking, looked into the outer room for Sue, and, finding her absent, was thrown into a fit of aggravated despondency that the events and information of the evening before had induced in his morbid temperament. Moreover a piece of paper was found upon the floor, on which was written, in the boy's hand, with the bit of lead pencil that he carried:
DONE BECAUSE WE ARE TOO MENNY.
(Jude the Obscure - T Hardy)
Aug 1st 2004, 8:14 pm
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What beach did you go to Sumpti???
We went to West Wittering today and queued 50 mins to get to the beach!!! 
When we finally got there....after paying £6....yes 6 bloody quid to park, we had to search for what seemed like an eternity to find a space to sit.......20 mins later we found our space.......approx the size of a first class stamp!!
We went to West Wittering today and queued 50 mins to get to the beach!!!
When we finally got there....after paying £6....yes 6 bloody quid to park, we had to search for what seemed like an eternity to find a space to sit.......20 mins later we found our space.......approx the size of a first class stamp!!
Aug 1st 2004, 8:18 pm
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Originally posted by artep
What beach did you go to Sumpti???
We went to West Wittering today and queued 50 mins to get to the beach!!!
When we finally got there....after paying £6....yes 6 bloody quid to park, we had to search for what seemed like an eternity to find a space to sit.......20 mins later we found our space.......approx the size of a first class stamp!!
What beach did you go to Sumpti???
We went to West Wittering today and queued 50 mins to get to the beach!!!
When we finally got there....after paying £6....yes 6 bloody quid to park, we had to search for what seemed like an eternity to find a space to sit.......20 mins later we found our space.......approx the size of a first class stamp!!
and I want the job of charging £6........they must have made a mint there today! I do believe there was not a square inch to be had for anyone that arrived after 11am:scared: But did you see the price of the food at the food hut! Now that was :scared: scarey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 1st 2004, 8:27 pm
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Originally posted by sumpti
That's where I was and I want the job of charging £6........they must have made a mint there today! I do believe there was not a square inch to be had for anyone that arrived after 11am:scared: But did you see the price of the food at the food hut! Now that was :scared: scarey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's where I was
and I want the job of charging £6........they must have made a mint there today! I do believe there was not a square inch to be had for anyone that arrived after 11am:scared: But did you see the price of the food at the food hut! Now that was :scared: scarey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fortunately we came armed with drinks!!!I'd like to wallop the miserable 'bar steward' who left me and my kids stood in the middle of the road while he drove past at 10mph in the traffic queue to get out....as if letting a couple of people cross the road in front of him would lose him valuable space. I must admit I yelled at him that it was ok as I really liked standing in the middle of the bloody road with my kids all day...
Aug 1st 2004, 10:37 pm
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"With a wonderful stretch of open space behind the best natural and uncommercialised sandy beach within easy reach of central London, it is not surprising that West Wittering is a favourite destination for a family day out. Now you have found us we anticipate that you will return time and again. Many families have done so for generations."
"The extensive acres of neatly mown grass are perfect for parking, a picnic or barbeque, and for impromptu games. Cars are parked very close to the beach where there is plenty of space for whatever you want to do. Swimming is safe, and the site is also popular with windsurfers and kitesurfers."
"You will be well looked after by our dedicated team who are here to help you enjoy your visit."
"In addition to the beach and car park, the area is internationally recognised for it’s wild natural beauty and wildlife, and we are dedicated to keeping it that way."
Welcome to the West Wittering beach
"The extensive acres of neatly mown grass are perfect for parking, a picnic or barbeque, and for impromptu games. Cars are parked very close to the beach where there is plenty of space for whatever you want to do. Swimming is safe, and the site is also popular with windsurfers and kitesurfers."
"You will be well looked after by our dedicated team who are here to help you enjoy your visit."
"In addition to the beach and car park, the area is internationally recognised for it’s wild natural beauty and wildlife, and we are dedicated to keeping it that way."
Welcome to the West Wittering beach
Aug 1st 2004, 10:46 pm
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Nice bit of c & p, email a nag, good work.
Aug 1st 2004, 10:53 pm
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Originally posted by The Don
(Jude the Obscure - T Hardy)
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(Don, io voglio sapere!)
Aug 1st 2004, 11:51 pm
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Re: One sunny day at the beach!!!!!
Originally posted by sumpti
ones are the family who don't arrive until 12.30pm, squeeze into the 2ft space next to you and then have the nerve to ask you to move over! If I didn't need all this space, I wouldn't have it!
ones are the family who don't arrive until 12.30pm, squeeze into the 2ft space next to you and then have the nerve to ask you to move over!
If I didn't need all this space, I wouldn't have it!
Aug 2nd 2004, 12:01 am
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I spent Sunday at the beach aswell...
A lovely warm winters day here.... loads of space on the beach,beautiful sights to see, people having loads of fun. building sandcastles, jetskiing, sailing, fishing or just walking the dog.
It was a lovely day for the BooBoo's. I also met another couple from this forum on the beach...spooky!!!!
I really love living here....even with the negatives..
BooBoo
A lovely warm winters day here.... loads of space on the beach,beautiful sights to see, people having loads of fun. building sandcastles, jetskiing, sailing, fishing or just walking the dog.
It was a lovely day for the BooBoo's. I also met another couple from this forum on the beach...spooky!!!!
I really love living here....even with the negatives..
BooBoo
Aug 2nd 2004, 12:06 am
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sounds like you've had enough!
Gee!
at first, I thought you'd just had a lousy time of it over the weekend and was seeing everything in a negative light. It's sooooo easy to just see negative and more negative in your workplace, home life, neighbourhood, etc. and think that it will all be sorted by racing across to the other side of the world.
But . . . after reading the next bloke's comments on the same beach, I'd say you a legit. case of whingeing.
I've been on Queensland beaches at 10 o'clock in the morning, looked along the whole stretch of golden beach for mile upon mile, with palm trees drooping toward the South Pacific Ocean that washes all along the coastline for 2 thousand miles there and seen no-one . . . absolutely no-one!
Not even a footprint in the sand, meaning I've been the first one to touch that beach that day!
The water was just as great . .. like a bath!
Enjoy!
at first, I thought you'd just had a lousy time of it over the weekend and was seeing everything in a negative light. It's sooooo easy to just see negative and more negative in your workplace, home life, neighbourhood, etc. and think that it will all be sorted by racing across to the other side of the world.
But . . . after reading the next bloke's comments on the same beach, I'd say you a legit. case of whingeing.
I've been on Queensland beaches at 10 o'clock in the morning, looked along the whole stretch of golden beach for mile upon mile, with palm trees drooping toward the South Pacific Ocean that washes all along the coastline for 2 thousand miles there and seen no-one . . . absolutely no-one!
Not even a footprint in the sand, meaning I've been the first one to touch that beach that day!
The water was just as great . .. like a bath!
Enjoy!
Aug 2nd 2004, 2:05 am
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Originally posted by sumpti
I do believe there was not a square inch to be had for anyone that arrived after 11am
I do believe there was not a square inch to be had for anyone that arrived after 11am
One bit of beach ettiquete that almost everyone seems to observe here: You NEVER shake your towel and spray sand over your neighbours. You either shake it very gently, close to the ground or take it somewhere away from anyone else to give it a good shake (taking note of the wind direction!).
Sandy towels were never a problem on the shingle/pebble beach at Lee-on-Solent where we used to go as kids!
Aug 2nd 2004, 6:29 am
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Originally posted by artep
We got there just before 3 this afternoon....I saw the queues for food and ice creams and told the kids there was NO way I was going to attempt it Fortunately we came armed with drinks!!!
I'd like to wallop the miserable 'bar steward' who left me and my kids stood in the middle of the road while he drove past at 10mph in the traffic queue to get out....as if letting a couple of people cross the road in front of him would lose him valuable space. I must admit I yelled at him that it was ok as I really liked standing in the middle of the bloody road with my kids all day...
We got there just before 3 this afternoon....I saw the queues for food and ice creams and told the kids there was NO way I was going to attempt it
Fortunately we came armed with drinks!!!I'd like to wallop the miserable 'bar steward' who left me and my kids stood in the middle of the road while he drove past at 10mph in the traffic queue to get out....as if letting a couple of people cross the road in front of him would lose him valuable space. I must admit I yelled at him that it was ok as I really liked standing in the middle of the bloody road with my kids all day...
so glad I started this thread!!!!!!! Did think maybe I was whinging but now I realise I am not alone in my thoughts people are so ignorant and no it wouldn't have hurt the guy to allow you across the road, charming:scared: I too would have shouted obsenities at him it is a great stretch of beach, although you could not see that yesterday! As for the price of food.....you'll be pleased you did not Q.....not that I bought, as not being tight, I just refuse to get into that market, whatever the kids say...at £1.95 for a portion of chips and £3.95 for baguette, hot dog, burger:scared:
Aug 2nd 2004, 6:39 am
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Trouble is, we don't stick around long enough to care:
Aug 2nd 2004, 8:11 am
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we have just spent 3 days at mablethorpe and to say it was deserted was an understatement!! mablethorpe and the surrounding beaches were empty...but the weather was absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! we pitched the suntent, opened the cooler and sat and drank cheap wine all day while the kids played with the (non-poisonous) jelly fish!!!!
absolute heaven!!!
the icecream/coffee bars are just as extortionate though!!!
sue
absolute heaven!!!
the icecream/coffee bars are just as extortionate though!!!
sue