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Butlins accommodation is certainly much better now - we go there to Spring Harvest most Easters. I suppose people expect a better standard of room/apartment these days, unlike the older 'Wakey, wakey' type holidays. We, too, bought a static caravan at Ingoldmells - Golden Sands' - but that was around 1972. An auntie of mine had died and left me some money so we invested in a new caravan costing £650!! It was lovely and we spent lots of time there at weekends and holidays, but the site rent kept increasing, we didn't have as much time for one reason and another and we weren't allowed to sel

I've probably got three memories of going to Skeggy . The first was standing on the beach , crying my eyes out as the wind-blown sand was stinging my legs (shorts only then ! ) . It was so bad that it was like being stung by thousands of sharp needles. Second memory was much later when my wife and I rented a chalet at Butlins . When it rained , water ran down the walls . My mum and dad visited us during one of the days and mum had brought some cooked pork with her . It can't have travelled well in the car as next day we began to feel ill , then our joints started to lock up !

Depends which side of town you want but my favourite is 4 Bells at Woodborough. They have excellent reviews, always very welcoming. Or go round to Plantfit's house, he apparently does a cracking Sunday lunch!

Just give me 24 hrs notice. Remember if you're coming by car can you bring me some cheddar and a pack of streaky smoked bacon.

#23 They were probably trained in the art of misdemeanour detection by Pickle Face, hockey mistress at the dreaded Manning School who, in turn, was trained by the Stasi...or was it the Ogpu?

#23 Don't know why, Ben, but I have a mental image of you being born in a suit and tie and the midwife saying, "Oh, isn't he smart! He'll go far in life! What's this he's clutching in his pudgy little hand? Oh, it's a Marsden's price list! Dinneford's Gripe Water 2/6!"

Skeggy - Smell of out of date chip oil, brown Windsor soup sea, cold wind and family groups on the sand huddled up trying to stay warm. Just some of my abiding memories. Mablethorpe - Ghost town with a slightly sad air about it Cleethorpes - The only holiday I ever had as a child. Grandma took my younger brother and my self to stay in what was called a chalet. A wooden hut with no running water or drains. Grandad thought it hilarious when Gran locked and bolted the door to keep out the smell when the men came to empty the toilet. I was about 6 so it can't have made much of an impress

I had tourers for many years, and was a member of the Caravan Club too. To give us much more space, I had an awning, and my daughters used to sleep in there, weather permitting ! We had some fantastic holidays the length and breadth of the country, but especially Devon and Cornwall. Happy Days indeed !

Or you could always call around at nonnaB's for some of her famous gingerbread

Not been for a year or two but me and the wife still love it when we do..............stay at a half decent Hotel on the front........and heres the secret of making it still exciting.................i go out by myself..........and find a pub/bar........an hour later this lovely lady walks in,and buys herself a drink.........i naturally move in in and offer to pay for it...........and after some playful banter realise we know each other from way back........and you know one thing leads to another................and the wife still likes my little games.........LOL.

Many happy memories of Skeggy, learn't to swim there on a day trip into Butlins with my great aunt, donuts, fish and chips all happy times. Then when I was a teenager I decided to go there on my pushbike with a mate and camp, camped on the sand hills somewhere to the north side and a bloody gale came in and blew the tent away in the middle of the night ! skidaddled back to home like a wet rat next morning. Still head to the east coast for a day trip, usually Cleethorpes first then head down to Mablethorpe and skeg and back to nottm, when I return to the uk for a holiday.

Love it or loath it, Skegness and the other East Coast resorts have been a Mecca for East Midlands tourists for well over 100 years. First, the railways, then charabanc's, coaches, then the private car. I well remember dad, hurrying me and mum , in order to leave home no later than 8, as he wanted to be away before the coaches from Huntingdon St. He hated being behind a string of slow moving coaches holding us up, and belching out clouds of diesel fumes. We took our youngest daughter, and her youngest daughter for a most enjoyable day during the summer holidays last year. We

plantfit - This is a pretty good site for word definitions the link is to "digs" and it appears that in part what you said is correct. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dig1.htm

Margie, re#42, F in Law bought a static on Golden Sands in 1974 so we probably saw each other at some time walking over the "pullover" beside the amusement arcade on the way to the beach.

The Wollaton near Wollaton Park main entrance, then you can cross the road and walk your lunch off on the park.

Lemon and Limoncello cake whats the matter with photobucket this morning. He's been at the limoncello I bet.

<a href="http://s827.photobucket.com/user/nonnifelici/media/image_zpsmxsecmji.jpeg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz198/nonnifelici/image_zpsmxsecmji.jpeg" border="0" alt=" photo image_zpsmxsecmji.jpeg"/></a> The cake turned out beautifully and was very yellow as I'd used very yellow yolked eggs that are used for making homemade pasta. This morning the " mice or that stranger that comes and goes" has finished it off.

Thanks, Melissa

Went to Cleethorpes a couple of years back. Not pleasant at all! I'm not the biggest fan of Skegness but much prefer it to Cleethorpes, having said that as a kid we always went to Mablethorpe, still enjoying going for a day out there!

^^^^^^^^ My older mate Ron Gabriel from Sandhurst Rd prefabs always called em 'a gadder'. What I want to know is, how could you commit a sin 2 miles from home and your parents still knew and were waiting for you when you got home.

The little fat guy has got great dress sense and a wicked haircut though!

Skegness (Nottingham by the sea) I think most of us don't like it because we spent most of our childhood there. Used to always stay on Stow's Manor Farm caravan site. From slop buckets, gas mantels to real pluming and electric lights. Dad won at bingo and sent me of to the hairdresser's to have a perm (first ever perm) what a site I looked, use to go to Derbyshire holiday camp to swim in there out side pool cost 6d, Linger longer chippy (why is it called that) well you get your chips open with salt/vinegar in news paper, and start eating when you get to the caravan site their is the rubbish b

When you go to Skegness do you hope it will be just like when you were a teenager? If so, you will certainly be disappointed unless you go on all the rides, spend money in the arcades, paddle in the sea, say hello to the donkeys, get a bit tipsy, meet a new girl (of course you can't do that as you are married!!) have a cuddle in the sandunes (you can still do this with your wife!) and all of this in beautiful sunny weather..... except the sandune bit - this may be more appropriate when the sun's gone down!

I always go to Skeggie with the intention of having a good time but it's yet to happen. I'll keep trying though!

If you go out with the intention of having a good time then you'll have a good time whether it be Skegness or anywhere else.

Last I heard the South Notts Hussars was going to be pulled down and a block of flats (now called 'apartments' - sounds better!) was going to be built there. I think the local populous lodged objections and so we await the outcome of the hearing, but it will still be pulled down and the flats built, the local councillors never listen to the views of the people who put them in office! As I recall, the pub was crap anyway, nver anyone in when I went in - maybe folk were trying to tell me summot!