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Class issues

By Jon Bounds Posted on September 15, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

What makes a seaside take one path or the other? While Bournemouth had embraced the tat: bungee jumping (not from the pier, unfortunately) and market stalls selling tacky bangles (yes, Danny added to his wrist bindings), Boscombe, not five miles a…

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Heart Shaped Stone – found next to Boscome Pier

By Danny Smith Posted on September 15, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Sent from the future

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Whistling songs and kissing balloons by the seaside

By Danny Smith Posted on September 15, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

I awoke with a start and a sort of horrible scream squeal because Jon had fell over me. That’ll teach the fucker for bagsying the only bed in the converted mansion apartments we stayed at last night.The isle of wight is full of impossibly winding …

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What the butler saw

By Jon Bounds Posted on September 14, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Featuring a young Keith Richards

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Know your history

By Jon Bounds Posted on September 14, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, Swanage Pier knows its history but than seems to doom it to show pictures of Ronnie Corbett to its visitors.

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Pig in a poke

By Jon Bounds Posted on September 14, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

I’ve just explained to Dan what the phrase ‘pig in a poke’ means. Midge struggling to extract himself from the tent was like that somehow.

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Return to the sea

By Jon Bounds Posted on September 13, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

I’ve been trying to calculate just how many times I’ve visited Torquay, it’s posibly 35 or more. Each easter my extended family (very extended, extended up to a hundred friends and friends of friends) would hire a coach and book out an entire hote…

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Postcards from a small island

By Jon Bounds Posted on September 13, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

When we were working out what benefits the funders of our post-modern grand vitesse could have we were a bit stuck — what could people get tangibly from us ragged-arsedly pootling round the coast? Yes this blog, but to be frank it’ll be bitty: we’…

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Your name will also go on the list

By Jon Bounds Posted on September 13, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

One thing we didn’t really factor in to the planning of the trip is that the seaside is a bit like the countryside. Pretty, hilly, cold and with poor 3G coverage—which is why updates at the moment are a bit sporadic. I spent nearly as long trying …

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Heart of Gold

By Danny Smith Posted on September 12, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

Being followed down the motorway by a massive Harvest Moon sitting low in the darkening sky.Of course we’re listening too Neil Young.Four piers and were off to sleep in a bus in a compound in Somerset, it belongs to a friend of Midge’s but as I do…

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