A Windsday Morning Laugh (This is NOT a 'Lil' story - but easily could be...)

[Bbbananas]

Lil, unusually dishevelled & distressed, rushses up to the Skeggy Lifeguard shouting "There's a dead dog over there with its legs cut off".
Lifeguardman strode towards the spot where the body had been located. He stopped short - hardly able to believe what he saw. He returned to the distraught Lil. "Madam, I do appreciate your report of the dead dog with no legs - but round these parts we call them seals... You've just woken the little chap up & he's gone back into the sea....."

Wasn't her... but just her sort of thing....

[Barmaid]

lol Salla. I knew I could depend on you for a laugh.

Not been to Skeg for years. Is it still a *** hell hole?

[Bbbananas]

Most of it, yeah. Gibraltar Point is nice and the beach the other end of the town is clean & less chav-populated.
I don't go there often - too distressing, but I know it well from when I used to do the Family Planning Clinics there at the Hospital. Oh.My.God. The likes of who/what walked in there and with what problem(s) you would just not believe. To say they are 'open' is a gross understatement. Promiscuity is rife, as is Gonorrhoea. But they do like to share around there... it almost seems something they're proud of. (Apologies to anyone from Skegness - this was over 8 years ago....)
I blame Butlins....

[Barmaid]

What is it about the east coast seaside towns? They are either horrid dumps or really lovely and not much in between.

[Bbbananas]

You need to go a bit further down I think to North Norfolk before you encounter any sort of 'class' !! (Mind you - their sexual preferences can be a tad undesirable, but at least they know how to hold a knife & fork...)

[Bobbisox]

Up the Northumberland coast is beautiful and unspoilt. Bobbi x

[janzman]

Horrid Dumps
Yarmouth
Skegness
Cleethorpes

OK Dumps
Filey
Bridlington
Scarborough

Lovely Dumps
Whitby
Seahouses
Bamburgh

[Bbbananas]

Morning Bobbi. Yup - and also parts of Yorkshire.

[logic]

Come on SALLA how can you blame butlins for that.
after all it's been there sine the war finished, don't you think the people had summat to do with it,? :-)

[Bbbananas]

True Logic - what I mean is, 80% of the people I saw at the FPC were either holidaymakers or employees of Butlins !!

[Barmaid]

I'd agree with you Janzman. I'd add Southwold to the lovely dumps list and Lowestoft to the horrid dumps list though.

[logic]

i used to spend every Christmas and New year at skeggy, ( well winthorpe ) until the Dunes pub burned down,had some great times there,

[Bbbananas]

The Dunes - I remember that!! And the Derbyshire Miners' Club. Winthorpe had the better beach - all the kite-surfers go there now. It's just central Skeggy that's a bit... to be desired !

We were probably there at the same time - think on that Logic! (Mind you, I was only very young).

[logic]

SALLA,
It's only two years since I stopped going,
I don't think you were a giggling teenager then,

[Bbbananas]

Giggling - yes.
Teenager - no.

Ever been to Butlins?!!

[logic]

Yes i have ,
but it was 52 years ago.

[Bbbananas]

Gawd blimey - I spent a summer there once (circa 1975) cleaning the chalets. It was horrible - cleaning out holidaymakers' fridges (gross), scouring the loos (puke-inducing) etc. Busloads of us were shipped in on a Saturday morning and we were paid a pittance. I absolutely hated it - you would not believe how filthy some people can be. It put me off Butlins for life - though I admit it's all had a revamp since then & now hosts loads of theme weekends & most of the chalets are now quite decent.
There are still busloads shipped out of a Saturday morning to clean - but these days they're 98% foreigners!

I was never cut out to be a charlady.

[logic]

you remember the pig and whistle then,? .... :-)

[Bbbananas]

Not really - was that the Butlins' 'local' ? (I was only 14 - not allowed in pubs - we just used to hang outside the pub & get p*****)

[logic]

Yes ,At that time it was famous for being the place to get hitched on friday nights,

[funnygirl]

That where you got hitched then????