Can be weird meeting people for the first time. Standing on Ibbison Court, we chatted about shopping for shoes, as good a way to break the ice as any.

As we drove past “The Bloomfield” we chatted about whether shut and boarded up pubs were a sign of the times. Maybe less sense of community and using your local?

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Blackpool has always been before its time.

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I boiled all my underwear.

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You have to succumb to fate.

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I have no regrets.

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We had a better life in Australia.