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At On week-ends in the summer, thousands of British working-class people go to take spend a day at the seaside.
If they live at in London, they go to Brighton or Margate; if they live in on the North of England, they go to Blackpool.
The family gets off up very early.
The wife does makes sandwiches and packs blankets and thermos flasks of tea.
Then they drive slow slowly to the a sea in a line of cars twenty miles wide long or stand in a train full of other another people who
go are going to the seaside.
When they get to the sea, they hurry because to find a place on the beach.
They cover a wide part of the beach by with their bags, their towels, their books and newspapers and their children; then they sit down up in deck-chairs.
The husband puts takes a handkerchief over his the face; the wife puts up on a hat.
Round them, footballs fly, wet dogs run, children fight and radios play; but they sit there quiet quietly with their eyes shut shout and slowly come become red.
Every hour, they go to put take their feet in the sea.
They've got They have lunch on the beach.
The sandwiches get sand in them, and the children drop theirs; their; dogs come and ate eat the cold meat; they've usually
forgotten forgot the bottle-opener.
But they enjoy their lunch. "Food's always better well by the sea," they say.
It's often cold and wet in Britain in the summer; but bad a bad weather doesn't stopping stop the British from going to the seaside.
They sit in shelters nearly near the beach and look at look the sea.
It's raining out of outside the shelter, but they put their blankets round them and eat their sandwiches and try smile. to smile.
"It's making doing us good! " they say.
The children aren't allowed to tell say they don't aren't like it.
"Mum... It's cold! " "Be quiet, and enjoy himself! " yourself!".
Another thing that the British like to make do at week-ends is to have have got picnics.
They take put sandwiches, cold meat, cakes and thermos flasks in a bag and drive to a the country.
They find some a grass and put on down a tablecloth.
Then they sit across round the tablecloth and eat their lunch.
There are flies and wasps; cows come and eat the sandwiches; often it rains.
But they say it's better as than lunch in a room.
Some people even have have got picnics in their gardens so that although they needn't
travel to travel to the country!