Alison's Blog

It's not going to be warm. But I'll do it. Maybe. I know I'll just get up to my waist, get out and roll around in warm sand, go back and wash it of, and so on until I get warm enough to stay in. By then maybe we'll be getting out! There's no point, but it's fun.  I only like swimming at the beach if I'm not at the beach. Which makes no sense, but anyway, the point is, I'm not going to enjoy the salty swim.  I shuffle up to the waves of ice and hesitate slightly before stepping forward... It's so warm! This was my opinion of the Frankley beach day. It was really warm, for the beach, but there weren't really any waves.😞

My shop is a sweet shop. I never get hungry. Inside the shop is sweets in every colour of the rainbow, and a few colours that aren’t. There is also a small ice-cream factory at the back of the store, in which you can create your own flavours! On the side of the shop is a lolly factory that makes every sweet ever in existence. Lemon juice, strawberry sauce and vanilla essence get creamed together into a soft,chewy lolly that has low sugar. Squished blueberries, cream and milk. Raspberries, vanilla ice cream and cinnamon. I love taste testing! From the outside, the shop looks normal: discounts covering every inch of the windows and lots of customers streaming in. But inside the shop, everything seems better. It’s probably the smells of millions, no BILLIONS, of sweets being mixed together, and lifting everyone’s tension. As soon as you walk out of the store, you miss it so much you want to go back in. But then you look at the time, go back home, and dream about my amazing, f