The Big Dip in Crumbleton (Crumbleton #5)

Prologue

PROLOGUE

CRUMBLETON TIMES AND ECHO - 20TH JUNE

Urgent: Beds Needed for Big Dip Dippers!

Calling all Crumbleton residents with a spare room to share! Our friends at Crumbleton Sands Surf Club need our help. The annual Big Dip has attracted a record number of swimmers this year, and The Dolphin and Anchor is going to be bursting at the seams.

Brian Singer reports that an entire minibus of Chilly Dippers will be arriving from Seabury tomorrow with a few last-minute additions. If you have a spare bed, sofa, or even a reasonably comfortable patch of carpet available, please contact Mick Penrose at the Surf Club ASAP!

Post-Dip Costume Clean-Up: Volunteers Wanted

Following last year’s spectacular costume carnage (they’ still finding sequins in the sand!), the Surf Club are organising a beach clean-up the morning after the fancy dress swim. Mick would like to remind participants that cardboard sharks, paper mermaid tails, and foam sea monster appendages may look fabulous on land but tend to disintegrate at first contact with the waves.

As tradition dictates, there will be a prize for “Most Bizarre Beach Find” – last year’s winner was Dylan Jones with his discovery of half a glittery jellyfish costume that had somehow managed to catch three real crabs.

Refreshments provided by The Limpet Café.

Caroline Cook, Editor (Who will be attending the Big Dip Dance and reminds everyone that the first couple onto the dance floor gets a free bottle of bubbly!)