Off To Blackpool Today
I’m going for the day to see my football team; Ipswich Town play there.
I’m dreading part of it. Breakfast at Carluccio’s in St. Pancras will be it’s usual good standard and the Virgin trains to Preston will probably be excellent, but the local train to Blackpool will be it’s usual crap self. Then it will be a walk in pouring rain to the ground, as only locals can fathom how to use, the town’s Third World bus system. But that is probably an insult to places like Goa, where I explored the area on the buses with a titled blonde widow. I think she was rather disappointed, in that she didn’t get her bottom pinched. But then the people of the sub-continent, are generally very polite and courteous.
At least though, the rain will wash the pavements of Blackpool of the vomit, that they seem to be paved with.
The football will probably be terrible because of the rain.
It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it.
The Anonymous Widower 
I don’t like Blackpool either, not been for years and years. Probably not since Lynne was about 10 when we took them to illuminations. having queued for hours one year, the next time we went on the train, and walked down the illuminations, we took Lynne’s best friend with us. In the afternoon we went took the children into the tower (because it was raining), and tried to buy a family ticket – two adults (Neil and I) and 2 children (Lynne and Claire) and one under 3 (Helen). The woman at the kiosk looked at Neil and I and our daughters, and then at Claire, back and forth between the five of us, for quite a few minutes, whilst I glowered at her because I knew she thinking we weren’t a “real family”. She did sell us the ticket without me having to threaten her with Equal Ops Commission, but it was a close thing. It is the only place I have ever had a problem when I have had Claire or her brothers with me, their dad is Nigerian, and my girls played with his children all the time growing up.
Comment by Liz P | November 9, 2013 |
I wonder what they’d have made of the mixed race couple, who featured in the front page of the Sun a few years back. They had had a set of twins and one was black and one was white.
Comment by AnonW | November 9, 2013 |
This family I mentioned, the boys are twins, and the parents were warned that they could be one black and one white; as it happened they are pretty much the same colour, and is their sister.
Comment by Liz P | November 10, 2013 |