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My parents owned a holiday home in Mablethorpe, mind you that was back in the 50's, went every year for holidays till I was about 15, it was let out rest of the time. Thought it was a big place, till I went back in my 20's, and realised just how small a town it was.

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I took the kids to mablethorpe 3 weeks ago to the haven site for the weekend.

Mablethorpe is very quite and only really one main street. It is somewhere local to us just to get away for the weekend. :)

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Hi Miss N
Thats where we used to have our caravan - its changed a lot now - when my kids where younger there used to be quad bikes, bumper boats, horse riding etc etc etc - but haven didnt have the monopoly on them so they got rid of them slowly over the years which was a great shame as they were brill and they brought in their own go karts which wernt half as good.
Even before haven owned it they used to have a beer kellar (spelling ???) with a Bavarian Umpa Band - now that was a good night out - lots of bottle banging on tables and lots of singing - what a laugh.
When we first started going there all the miners used to go and it was brill but when the strikes happened and they shut down the mines they stopped going and it quietened down after that which was a shame as they were so much fun to be around.
Love Sam

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My wife won the UK Pool Team championship there sometime in the late eighties. A right drunken weekend it was as well :)

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My friend had childhood memories of Mablethorbe so she took her hubby and 3year old there for a weekend'e break. As they left he said to her, have a look at out the back window, she did this and said "what am I looking at", he said "Mablethorbe, that's the last time you will see it". She said told me that she wish she hadn't gone back as all her childhood memories of her holidays there will never be the same. I was just the same when Mal took me back to Canvey Island:( but I still have a soft spot, my memories of that place will be with me for ever:)

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Yeh i know what you mean - me too

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Sam, when I have the grandchildren, sadly not too often now, I always say to them "let's make memories" and we do things that I hope will be with them for ever.:)

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What a great grandma - i have many great memories with my nan - only ever had the pleasure of one nan the rest had past away before i was born but she was wonderful - many of them were at Mablethorpe as she used to come with us - she love the beer keller - she would sit at night tapping her stick hurrying us all up so she could go and bang her bottle - ahhhhhhhh memories - thanks for that Crispygirl.
Love Sam

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Ahhhhhhhhhhh thats nice..............:wub:

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When we take the young grandchildren on holiday we always spend some quality time in the evenings before dinner completing a Memory Book. We write about the day and what we did and make sure that we back it up with leaflets, photo's, entrance tickets, drawings etc. The children then take pride in showing the books off to family and friends so they have physical proof of the day as well as the mental pictures.

I think that small children value the silly little things that happen more than the major expensive things so the book helps to capture their feelings about an event very clearly. Mine love it.

Rosemary

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Our son's first memory (at the aged of 2) is of playing between Nanna and Grandad's legs on a boat on holiday in Majorca. We went on a boat trip and to stop him wandering off they sat on opposite sides of the seats with their legs up so that he could only go between the two of them together also with building sandcastles on the beach with his Grandad. At the age of 28 he says he can remember it as if it were yesterday.

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I never knew my grandparents, three died before I was born and the other when I was 6 and he wasn't the sort of person to make memories with. I have only one of him (make that two) the first one - him telling me off for putting my knife in my mouth at the meal table and the second was when his bedroom door was left open, he was dying and there were two people standing by his bed.

Mal and I have 10 grandchild but none of them are actually mine, 5 of them are Mal's and the other five are the children from relationships that our kids partners have had. I may never get to have any that I can say are "my grandchild" but I love each and everyone of them as if they were. None of them call me grandma even though I am for some of them the only one they will ever know. I am "Christine" and they believe that Christine is another word for nan, nanny, grandma, nana they don't realise that it is my name.

Once Boo asked if she could call me nana instead of Christine and I said she should ask her mummy, but instead she said she would call me Debby... that lasted for about an hour, she told me "you are my Christine and that is what I will call you". I was once asked by another mum at a party who I was to Boo and Munch and I just said, "why I'm there Christine" the look on her face was priceless:D

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God what lovely posts! Christine you must be a very proud gran!:wub:

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Arnt they just,(lump in throat):wub: