06/08/07 Back

I've been away in sunny Spain on holiday...
I had a lovely time even though it was murderously hot...(knocking on the door marked
"40 degrees"...Scottish people can only survive for a limited time in that climate)
But hey,you don't want want to hear about "lovely times"...you want to hear about disasters, quirky Spanish happenings and that sort of malarkey...
One of the enduring memories of the holiday stems from a visit we took to a festival going off in a small town near where we were based...
As we walked along checking the " fairground attractions",there was nothing initially unusual...
There was candy floss, kiddies roundabouts, a bouncy castle....
But then we came across a roundabout which was unusual in the sense that it had real ponies attached to the mechanisms.
The operator would switch on the machine which would guide the attached ponies round in circles for the prescribed period...
"That's something you don't see every day!" I thought to myself...
Would they allow this in the UK? Hmmmm.....probably not!
I was also interested to see the old "throw a ping pong ball in a goldfish bowl and win a goldfish" stall...
I think offering creatures as prizes was outlawed in Britain about 25 years ago...
(I'm not sure about the exact date...but it is a while for sure)
The piece of resistance though was the fact that the goldfish were actually currently living in the bowls which you had to try and throw the ping pong balls in...
Hopefully, their limited short term memory will ease the trauma of having your house constantly bombarded by big white balls...
At least we used to have the sensitivity to have empty goldfish bowls to aim at,and
kept the fish in smart little plastic bags...
We are a nation of animal lovers...
More adventures tomorrow!