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Oh, I love Blackpool.

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A little stick of Blackpool rock.

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You get that on George Formby.

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of Blackpool rock

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Ha, ha, ha...

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Woof! Woof!

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Oink!

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Moooo!

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My family's been out here, running
the donkey rides, since 1886,

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we've been here,
so we're a long established family.

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And we've seen
a lot of changes over the years.

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We're great beach people,

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but not sunburning...
but not sunbathing.

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The bottom line is
we never sunbathe.

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The wind, if it's too strong,
it's not too comfortable.

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You know, a bit cool,

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but today I've found quite pleasant,
to be quite honest.

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Yes, rather warmer than...

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yesterday, I thought.

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I think you just take pot luck,
don't you?

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You...
A little bit of a joke, isn't it?

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If it rains
then we've got wet weather gear,

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so it doesn't really stop us.

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When it does rain,
it clears the beach.

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As soon as you get rain,

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there can be thousands of people
along the beach,

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as soon as you get a drop of rain,
they're gone.

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Donkey rides and dodgem cars
and candy floss, toffee apples -

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they're the things
that you associate with...

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a British seaside resort, you know.

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Yeah, indeed. My wife and I holiday
annually in Cornwall or Devon.

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My wife, actually,
must have sea and coast

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on her holiday...agenda.

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Um...so that over the many years,

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even though all our holidays
have been in Britain,

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we've only once been to
a non-coastal county,

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which is Shropshire.

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We had a fine holiday there.

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The need to be near the sea,
nevertheless,

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draws us back time and time again.

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I think the favourite beach
that I do is right up there,

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where you can see the cliffs,
at Scarborough,

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where the donkey rides,
on the north side.

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I think that's the nicest part
of Bridlington beach.

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But I think Scarborough beach's
the nicest one I've been to.

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Yes, I think
we've got a lovely beach.

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Um...the only problem is the sea
doesn't come in very often.

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Usually...

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Usually, it's only in twice a day

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and it usually seems to be the wrong
time of the day for holidaymakers.

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What I love is
just splashing in the waves.

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and it's really cold
and you just jump in the sea,

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swim around in there and um...

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It's just really nice.

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Oh, no. I wouldn't do that.

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No, too many germs in the sea,

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too many things
that can make you ill and bad.

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If you want to stay healthy, stay
out of the sea, that's what I say.

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I'm not very good at swimming.

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I just sink.

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I don't know why that is.

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I do, though, it's true,

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cos people say if you lie
on your back you float.

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Well, you don't.
Well, I don't. I just sink.

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THUNDER

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I do like swimming in the sea.

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I've always done it.

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(SNIFFS) We used to go to...

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Cornwall, which...and er...

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It was nice but it was always windy,
always cold.

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Whereas I find with this area
we always feel much, much better.

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I wouldn't mind living down here,
to be quite honest. Ha, ha, ha!

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I had octopus once.
I didn't know it was octopus, mind.

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It was very tough, wasn't it?
Yes.

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Very tough.
But I ate it.

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I'm saying now that
I won't eat prawns, but I ate that.

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But when I knew afterwards, like
everybody else, I felt quite ill.

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In our own part of the world,
we're extremely attached to Whitby,

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and visit it
in what's called our Whitby season,

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which is from October to...
October to March.

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I've always felt uncomfortable
with hot weather.

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I don't like hot weather.

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I don't like it.

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So... And you don't either.

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No, I can't stand it.
So, we're agreed on that.

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I love sunbathing because it's
very warm and it's very relaxing.

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It's almost just like being in bed,
really.

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It's like having a big electric
blanket over you all the time.

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And you go brown
and that's always good.

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I can't sunbathe for very long
cos we had a very hot summer

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and I got sunstroke
and I can't sit out in it too long.

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I sit for an hour,
with plenty of cream on.

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After that I start feeling sickly
and I've got to come in.

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At the end of the day, what's it
doing? It's cooking you, isn't it?

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The sun is actually cooking you.
Plus, I get heat rash.

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That's why you go brown.

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If I'm in it for ten minutes
I get heat rash.

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No, I don't want to burn my skin,
do I?

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It's bad for you.

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(MUNCHES)

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I love scrambling over rocks,

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being in the rock pools

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and just looking for crabs
and looking for mussels.

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Oh, the best place for rock-pooling
is definitely Sidmouth -

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really, really lovely rock pools
everywhere.

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And um...I was rock-pooling
with all the little kids,

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and I was sort of digging around,

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marvelling at nature...

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Oh! This disgusting thing!

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This turd fish and it kind of
looks really slovenly.

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And I pulled it up and I was trying
to marvel at it with the children.

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It was so disgusting, I just ended
up screaming and chucking it back.

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I haven't really noticed pollution.

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I think they're a lot cleaner
than they used to be,

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the beaches in this country.

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They're beginning to get their act
together, I think now.

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Well, they have to, don't they?

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It's the European regulations
on beaches.

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Well, the one what springs to my
mind it was a very, very big spillage.

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It's your worst fear, I suppose.
Yeah.

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You don't want to go in the water
and come up with oil all over you.

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It must put people off a holiday
to see the state of it.

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LAUGHTER

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I think they get fined.

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I'm almost certain they do get
fined,

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the ship owners.

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Pollution is a problem everywhere,
isn't it?

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I don't know. On the beach?

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What pollution do you get
on the beach?

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You get...
LAUGHTER

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..well, too many people, probably,
is the worst pollution

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and their radios.

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We wouldn't sit next to someone
that had radios blaring out,

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and were being loud and everything.

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If they came and sat next to us
we'd move,

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if we were sitting on the beach, or
if they had dogs or stuff like that.

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We wouldn't stay there.

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The only reason I'm still doing
this job is because of the children.

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If you see their faces
as they get off a coach,

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remember some have never seen
a beach before,

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and um...it gives us great pleasure.

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The children are what make the job.

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The old stuff, the donkeys
and the carts and things like that,

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they're going to be around
for a long time to come yet.

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The hi-tech games, I think, really,
they've had their day.

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And so, coming back tomorrow,

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and, hopefully, swim again...
all being well.

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I don't know what
the forecast is for tomorrow, but...

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if it's like this we shall be here.

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Ha, ha, ha!

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OK.

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Right.
Nice to have spoken to you anyway.

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Um... As to the finest holiday
that I've had,

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I would probably say, paradoxically,
that it was in the Lake District,

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during the foot and mouth epidemic.

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My ideal British holiday? Um...?

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I'd probably like a weekend city
break, myself, living by the sea.

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Ha, ha, ha.

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(SLURPS)

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You don't mind if I eat this,
do you?

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