A Trip To The Seaside

A Trip To The Seaside

Take a trip to the seaside
Turn left down Memory Lane
To the hallowed days of childhood
Remember those trips to the beach!?

Swim Suits, Sun Oil, pink plastic shoes
Stripey Deckchairs
Paddling
Warm cheese sarnies wrapped in tinfoil (with sand)
Hot Lemonade (with sand)
Lyons Victoria Sandwich Sponge Cake
Castle shaped buckets and little paper flags
99's with strawberry sauce...and nuts...and sand
Socks & Sandals
White String Vests and Varicose Veins
Dads groovy sun hat (use 101 of a white cotton hanky. Use 102? Blow your nose on it!)
Rock Pools, Crabbing, Kites!
The lure of the pier.
Lobster Red flesh
1000's of people
Noise, noise, noise
At days end the news paper parcel
The aroma of vinegar steam
Burning your tongue on the first chip?

What about
Thermos Flasks filled with steaming Bovril?
Vest, T-Shirt, Pullover, Thick Jumper Nan knitted for your birthday,
duffle coat, mittens on strings, a stripey scarf, last used by Action Man as a getaway rope?
Paddington Wellies - were yours red or blue?
Fear of falling over as you would need a rescue party to stand you up
December/January?
Kites! (Peter Powell Stunt Kites - Bright Blue with flurorescent pink tails)
No one within 5 miles?
Pick of the beach?

(We invented kite surfing.
Take One Blustery Day in December
Add one small, slightly built, 5 year old child
One wooden framed stripey deckchair
Wait until Dad/Granddad/Mum/Nan has vacated seat and the wind begins to move the chair
Attach small boy
Stand Back
Watch as small boy is dragged along ground by deckchair as the seat cloth demonstrates how a sail works!)

Frozen Fingers?
Blue Lips?
0's of people?
At days end the news paper parcel
The aroma of vinegar steam
Burning your tongue on the first chip

(c) Paul Jefford 2007 (23-04-07)