| Pat
Nelson
"We
used to go down to Weymouth on holiday, and there used to be a naval
base down there. So Ann and I used to go what we called "chasing
the sailor" down in Weymouth.
I met
one, his name was David Starbuck. I met him down there and I suppose
we corresponded and went out for a while but it fizzled out you
know. And as I say we used to spend a lot of holidays down there,
Ann and I, and we used to lay on the beach, in our rouched salmon
pink bathing costumes. They were nylon, rouched salmon pink they
were, and we used to lay flat out on the beach and we used to cook
ourselves!
We
used to go back and our legs would be bright, absolutely bright
red you see, because we was trying to get a tan, and we thought
we was being sophisticated you see. We used to come back with red
raw legs.
In
those days you didn't know that the sunshine wasn't good for you
we just used to lay there all day trying to get brown. It used to
peel afterwards, and come off in great big sheets honestly. You
didn't realise then you was doing yourself damage."
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