There's something...

...about Christmas lights (even in November), that takes me back to my youth...

The annual trip to Blackpool for the illuminations. It always started at the Bispham end with fish and chips in the car.

Then the obligatory sit in the car and drive through 6 miles of flashing lights.

We loved it. We never did the Pleasure Beach, the arcades or rode a tram, we never had the money. But a family squabble, a bag of chips, a fuzzy drink and if we were very good, a treble turn around the roundabout at the end all made for a wonderful time.

When you're a kid things are so simple. I sometimes think that as grown ups we tend to over complicate things.