Oh I do like to be beside the seaside - stroppycow

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

What better for a birthday outing than the British seaside experience? So on Saturday The Boy and My Favourite Canuck indulged me and we took the train to ~~sunny~~ Brighton for the day.
How did we do for authenticity? Not bad I thought.
Rain - check
fish and chips - check, though we probably failed by not eating it in the bus shelter while staring at the rain and having our fish chips and mushy peas sitting down at a formica table and it was rather nice indeed.
amusements - check, complete with feeding 2p coins from a plastic cup into the penny pusher (I am easily amused) and a game of whack a croc (no air hockey though disapointingly). The Boy and MFC managed to persuade me to go for a spin on the waltzer and derived much amusement from my terror (I don't *do* rides I prefer to watch other people enjoy them, the combination of sounds, colours, lights and expressive faces provides more entertainment in my book than trying in vain to persuade my body that I am not about to die).
walk on the promenade and the beach when the rain stopped for a bit - check
sticks of rock - check
and some nice extras thrown in: getting a table on the train, the joy of observing behaviour scattier than mine (deserves an entry of its own), turtle feeding time, sea horses, sharks, watching the waves crashing, giggling at pantomine posters.

8.1.07 20:40

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Jiiiiim!!! / Website (9.1.07 17:19)
Birthday? You should have said - I could then have forgotten to send you a card or something. Glad to see you had a good one, although definite minus points for not eating fish and chips in bus shelter. It's the only way to do it AND they always taste better.

Daisy / Website (9.1.07 21:47)
It was your birthday? Darnit, I too would have forgotten to send you a card but I'd have made a virtual, shark-free one!

Daisy / Website (9.1.07 23:19)
Shark-free version now online:

http://chasingdaisy.com/blogpics/anniv.html

:-)

stroppycow / Website (10.1.07 19:01)
Jim: thanks, I doubt I'll ever be Northern enough to be converted to the ways of the bus shelter :-D
Daisy: thank you for the thought and the lovely card :-)

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