Mablethorpe

Bingo could be so addictive.

I'm up North visiting with my Gran.

I had originally planned to go to my Mum's today after spending the night in Gainsborough, but as she doesn't get to see me often, I agreed to go to the coast with her and my uncle for the day.

Mablethorpe, on the East coast, is a weekly day out for her, which she thoroughly enjoys.

We set off just after 10, to arrive at their usual cafe, for lunch.

Despite the heat I went for the steak and stilton pie which was excellent. Well worth the boasting. After lunch my uncle and I dropped Nan nan off at her addiction centre, one of the amusement arcades for the weekly bingo fix. Normally my uncle just sits outside with a laptop, but as I was here we went out.

The weather has been glorious all day. I hope factor 50 is enough. Merv needed some more bits for his pond so we went out of town and visited an aquatics centre. They had a display of some massive fish, including carp and some sturgeon.

After that we went back to Mablethorpe.

At the beach front car park we got a ticket with about an hour left on it. Not long enough for a walk anywhere but enough for a cup of tea.

Found the first of many fridge magnets for the collection we're starting on the Vespucci.

After waking around the cheap stores for a bit we went back to the arcade where my Gran was sat on her favourite stool. To keep her company I sat down next to her and put in some money for the game.

Such a simple idea and so easy to mess it up, by not moving the correct slide or moving the wrong one. It's this idea of trying to do a simple thing correct which makes it addictive. The cost is only 10p for 2 cards so it doesn't seem to bad. When you're playing for about 4.5hours though it soon adds up.

Thankfully my Gran was satiated by about 1700hrs so we left for home.