OddBalls on the Pier Just before the schools’ February half-term week’s holiday, there is feverish activity in our local seaside resorts. The Showzam Street Festival will hit Blackpool again, the Pleasure Beach will open and everyone and everything will come out of hibernation. Cafés will put tables and chairs outside Read more…
Blackpool, one of the seaside resorts on our Fylde coast, has not one, not two, but THREE piers. A walk along any of them in summer or winter is always a delight. In winter they are deserted with all the sideshows shuttered up, whilst in the holiday season they are Read more…
WOW! Darts! Score over 8 to win! I’m sure that’s not as easy as it sounds. If it were that simple, the stallholder would go out of business and Bully Bullseye wouldn’t be smiling as he’s be unemployed). All the fun of the fair on one of the piers in Read more…
WordPress Photo Challenge: Abstract When I was little I used to see these slot machines at the funfair at the seaside though I was never allowed to spend waste pocketmoney on them. My pals at primary school in Scotland spoke in knowledgeable terms about “playing the puggies” and it always Read more…