Hi-de-hi? Great fun!

07/07/2008

I refer  to Jim Tilley's email about the old Butlin's style holidays (see link below)

 

I went on four Holiday Camp holidays during the years 61-67 with my mate Andy and his Mum & Dad; I was 17 in 1961.

 

I remember those holidays as some of the best ever.  The evening  competitions; knobbly knees, church warden pipe smoking, topsy turvy and best dressed man, to name but a few.  Then there were the daily competitions; snooker, darts etc.

 

Meals time when the red/blue leaders use to greet everyone and then greet the opposing ends of the dining room.  Bingo and dancing in the evenings when I learnt unfamiliar dances like the Military Two Step and the Gay Gordons...great fun.  Remember Goodnight Campers?

 

Were you dancing?

 

I like to feel that the experiences of those days help shape my outlook on life and that I still enjoy the basics of having fun.

 

John, Basingstoke