Twister , originally uploaded by Stevacek
I love this pic – a long exposure with image zoomed out halfway through the shot.
It seems to sum up the bright lights and movement of the fairground experience. What’s your favourite fairground ride memory?
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I don’t have a favourite fairground ride memory ‘cos I’m such a wimp.
Submitting this instead, from last year. (Shameless Self promotion alert! Sorry.)
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I think that the first time I ever went on a ferris wheel was at the A&P show (Agricultural and Pastoral) in Hawera. I would have been about seven at the time. Mum was doing a stint on the Plunket stand, so Dad took us around the show, and sent us off on the ferris wheel, which I thought was huge and exciting, but now I realise that it was actually very small. Other than that, my parents weren’t show goers, and neither were we (i.e my husband and me) until we arrived in Adelaide, and worked out that it would be unfair to be the only curmudgeons at the school who didn’t take their children to the show.
So now my favourite show ride memory is the look on my eight year old daughter’s face when her roller coaster ride came to an end. She was shocked into silence. However she is nothing if not resilient; within moments she was talking with delight about the thrill of the ride.
I’ve never been much for roller-coasters, but I don’t mind other kinds of spin-twirl rides. Since I had a car accident 20 years ago that gave me a neck injury though, I do have to be extra careful. Not much fun, that.