Hasses aren't only avocados.: August 2013

Pater: Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

Posted by Pater , Sunday, August 25, 2013 8:05 PM

Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside
I do like to be beside the sea!
I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom!
Where the brass bands play:
"Tiddely-om-pom-pom!"

Hard to believe, my Avocado Juniors, that this song is over 100 years old. And since it speaks about the singer's love of the British seaside, which is cold and manky, it's completely fitting for Lake Ontario, whose water is goose-bump-inducing and beaches are not exactly Caribbeanesque! But luckily for Mater and Pater (mainly because it's only half an hour away), you two seem to take literally its title as one of the five Great Lakes and love spending time playing in and around it.

Not that it's only the Great Lakes you patronise. You're willing to spend time at the Not-So-Great-Lakes such as Muskoka, as well. And since Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and our good friends all have cottages in the area, you obviously have good taste!