A further family holiday day in Blackpool, sunny and fine for our visit to The Pleasure Beach amusement park and then to the pier and finally the beach for donkey rides. More controversy over the SAS IRA ‘executions’ , the new UK government ETS scheme as a means to lower unemployment statistics and more plane crashes occur in the US and China
Slept reasonably enough considering out was our first night in a new bed. I woke up first this morning and found Diana still there and she had very good cause to be grateful although she was a little shy with the children in an adjoining room. Got everybody washed and dressed and then went down to have breakfast in the Queen’s restaurant. It was a pleasant enough affair with all of the breakfast food out and available in the buffet but I much prefer to be waited on rather than jumping up and down all of the time. At last the housekeeper organise the cleaning of our bedroom window panes and we could see the sea and views and even what type of weather it was! In fact, we had a lovely sunny day, although the breeze was still cool. This morning we got in the Range Rover and went to the Pleasure Beach Amusement Park. We enjoyed this as a good venue for the children with lots of theme rides as well as scary ones. Although no Disneyland, it does try quite hard. There were more people out today but the numbers could still be better. We went to the adjacent pier then afterwards and the girls had free rein in a play area whilst the rest of us relaxed. The girls then had pony rides on the beach (on donkeys actually) and they enjoyed these whilst Daniel had some money to spend on the amusements.
Back to the hotel to find a bowl of fruit and plates there with the compliments of the manager. It would be nice to think it was a gesture to make up for our inconvenience but, as it was labelled as an arrival gift, it was more probably another cock-up! The girls played in the games room whilst Dan and I watched TV and then the news. Further speculation on the Special Air Services Regiment being involved in the killing of the IRA men and all the normal arguments of the pros and cons of the morality in killing them rather than attempting arrests. Two air crashes; one in Texas and the other in China with some survivors as well as many killed. The government in produces their employment training scheme (ETS) to a chorus of opposition