While on holiday recently it was amazing to see people sunbathing until they were bright red.

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There’s a couple on the beach
Who come from far away.
They spend all their time on sun beds
Throughout each sun drenched day.
With complexions red as lobsters
As they’re served from the pot
It’s as if they haven’t learnt
That the sun is rather hot.
Come nightfall they will feel it
As they toss and turn in bed,
And their skin is burning fiercely
And they’ve sunstroke on their heads.
Oh why have they not learned,
After all the fuss that’s made,
That it’s really far more sensible
When it’s hot to sit in shade?
Christine Ramsay 19.8.10
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