The last resort

[Not your average framer]

This is one of our local seaside towns. It's a real dump!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ1NWtLK8aI

Enjoy!

[prospero]

Never been to Cleethorpes Mark?

[Jonny2morsos]

You ought to come and take a look at some east coast resorts!

[prospero]

Sunny Skeggy.

[birdman]

I once spent a fortnight one weekend in sunny Cleethorpes Prospero, it was closed!!

[stcstc]

cleethorpes was rotten when i lived near there, 30 years ago

[birdman]

Wot you saying Steve, it's improved since you left?

[Roboframer]

Remember that show Jonathan Ross used to do "The last resort"?

Well on one episode he had a dog and asked for suggestions for a name for it - I suggested 'Bognor'

Then there was Angus Deayton's show "Bognor or Bust" where the prize was either a dream holiday or a weekend in Bognor - The people/council of Bognor complained to the TV channel but the excitment of that got too much for them and they went back to being despondent.

[Not your average framer]

I know Bognor I used to go there a lot as a kid and from time to time in later years. I have to admit that Bognor really is the bottom of the pile when I consider all the places I ever been to. I thought that John was gonna say, "first prize = one week in Bognor, second prize = two weeks in Bognor".

Roboframer will know what I am talking about, when I says that even Selsey is more exciting than Bognor. For those who don't know there is almost nothing at all at Selsey. You access the sea via a longish residential road, only to find one solitary dump of a cafe, a really rough car park surfaced with stones which are far too large and uneven for the good of your tyres and you car, with a difficult obstacle course to get onto a beach consisting of even more stones like those in the car pack. I suppose it may have changed as I have not been there for about 15 to 20 years, but somehow I doubt it. Bit by bit Selsey is getting eroded by the sea and the waves, but the cafe and the car pack are protected by a concrete sea wall.

You used to have to get your money changed into "old" coinage to use any of the old pinball machines, or the jukebox. I and some of my friends used to go down there and we used to play an old "B side" recording in the Juke Box called "Mule skinner blues". We would select it to play that about ten times and sit there a watch people with any kind of taste at all, cringe as it came back on again and again. If you've never heard "Mule skinner blues" it's worth listening to it on Youtube, or somewhere just to complete the picture, it's an awful song and an assult on the ears.

Does anyone remember the Peter Sellers sketch "Balham - Gateway to the south"?

[Not your average framer]

Here you go:

Muleskinner blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PleN0AmuT9M

Balham http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RTWk9QIKS0

[Jonny2morsos]

Is Torquay listed in this book?

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Copy available on amazon for 1p if you want to check.