No trip to the seaside is complete without a little squanderment in the arcade on the front…….
…… and fortuitously, before leaving home, Nigel had had the foresight to raid our small change jar for a pounds worth of 2p’s each for Iris and Bertie to squander with unbridled holiday abandon ……….
…….. in the 2p machines in Teignmouth ………
…….. which Nigel excitedly informed me also give out tickets …….
……. and tickets mean prizes.
It soon became apparent that young Iris and Bertie quickly developed a knack of “scoring” great streams of said tickets, which, when all the 2p’s were gone, could then be excitedly exchanged at the Prize Kiosk……..
…… after a great deal of very careful consideration and deliberation on both their parts …..
….. swiftly followed by a robust game of hose the duck on Auntie LuLu …….. happy days!
"Squanderment," eh? A great (made-up?) word.
ReplyDeleteI would have gone on the shove a ha'penny machinemyself, at the amusement arcade. Mind you, with inflation, and the fact that we no longer have ha'pennies, as legal tender, it is probably shove a tuppenny.
Either way, I would have been shoving.
Great fun at the seaside and not too expensive. When our American relatives were over the kiddos thought it was fantastic when all the tickets started to come out of the machines, then came the fun of choosing something.
ReplyDeleteGreat memories are created at times like that.
Michele
Oh such precious days and memories forever. No seaside trip is complete without a little trip to the arcade, no matter how old you are. JantheFan x
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