[News] Do you go the funfair?

[The Clamp]

My Dad won a budgie at Yateley fair.

We called it Bluey.

It dropped off it’s perch dead during Live Aid.

There was a thing at fairs many years ago we used to go to;

An old banger of a car in the field. You’d buy a raffle ticket. The winner got handed a sledge hammer and got first go at smashing the car up. They got 2 mins. After that, you paid 20p to get a go bashing the car for 2 mins.

There was also the stall where you threw balls at China plates to smash them.

 

[The Clamp]

I did actually end up seeing a bird from the fairground for a while. She worked on the Waltzer.

It didn’t work out in the end. Everything had to revolve around her.

 

[Man of Harveys]

My Dad won a budgie at Yateley fair.

We called it Bluey.

It dropped off its perch dead during Live Aid.

So sad. Another One Bites The Dust.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

My Dad won a budgie at Yateley fair.

We called it Bluey.

It dropped off it’s perch dead during Live Aid.

There was a thing at fairs many years ago we used to go to;

An old banger of a car in the field. You’d buy a raffle ticket. The winner got handed a sledge hammer and got first go at smashing the car up. They got 2 mins. After that, you paid 20p to get a go bashing the car for 2 mins.

There was also the stall where you threw balls at China plates to smash them.

That reminds me. When I was an Uni in the 90s the fun fair came to town and I won a Goldfish on some rip off game or another. Naturally, Without a tank in my student digs, I filled up my lunch box with water which it seemingly swam around in happy before I went out.

When I came back, the fish had somehow escaped the box but I saw something thrashing about in my ash tray.which was brim full of discarded cigarette butts. I quickly put it back in the water where it swam about albeit with much less gusto than previously and with a load of burnt tobacco in the water.

Sadly "Fagash" as the goldfish became known passed away 24 hours later presumably due to it's aversion to Marlboro lights. I gave up owning fish until 20 years later after my son's badgered me into it where curiously junior the fish also committed suicide on Day 1 where he jumped out this time onto a Delia Smith cookbook.

I have a spare fish tank in my garage if anyone wants it.