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Know a mum and dad who tell their kids it's the van for selling fish.

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Haven't heard one round our end in a long while;no doubt dusting off the cornets as we speak and it'll "Teddy Bears Picnic" non stop for the next 5 months!:)

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PMSL!!! how do they get away with that??!?!?....specially with icescreams all splattered n uncle sams van is like a cone on back LOL

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Well since clocks went forward thats been it up here non stop every eve wont be long b4 its 2-4 times a day, trust me they are in wait LOL

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Saw my 1st big bumble bee today [not the clarets one pmsl!!] then reminded me that it wont be long b4 im running away from wasps arrrghh

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I know someone who tells their kids the chime is to tell people that they've sold out of ice-creams!

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If an ice cream van sounds its chimes on your road after \i think 7.30 pm look straight at him and at your watch . he commits an offence and can lose his licence for it. He will know what you are thinking!!!!!!!!

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Up to now we've been lucky, no Ice Cream vans mucking up the evenings. I did buy a lolly and a 99 with a flak in the lakes yesterday.

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Really?!? is there a time limit that they can dingaling then???!?

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Definately its designed to stop sleeping children awakening wanting ice cream

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ahhhhh ponders that could apply to any time of the day then for younger ones LOL

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Our Ice Cream van turns up just before lunch.

Our kids always miss out as they don't get anything until lunch has been eaten... all of it!!!

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Saw a huge bee up at Brookside nurseries this aft!Have now got plants in the pots in my yard again!It's certainly feeling a bit more Spring like now!:D

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Noticing an Ice Cream thread I thought I would let you know I recently got an email from an old friend of mine who hit on an idea a few years back, he was made redundent by a large Aircraft firm not far from Preston and thought that he would never work again etc, this was the days before Ebay and he found in Exchange and Mart an old Bicycle Ice Cream cart, he paid 50 quid for it and spent about the same doing it up and then he went and bought some of the square ice ceam and cones, dressed himself up as an Italian with mustache and white coat etc and set off around Accy center to see if he could make money, he did and with the help of a friend bought a bedford van and drove to Blackpool where he cycled up and down the prom. Long story made short the email I just got was that he is retiring at the grand old age of 45 and has bought a place in Spain for cash. There is money in Ice Cream.

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Pmsl Bazf u are telling me thats where the money is not in my pocket lol no wonder he can retire early specially in Blackpool n i bet ive probably bumped into him as well unless he had a chain of em lol

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Our Ice cream van comes just before tea time, I find this really annoying, fortunately my daughters a bit young to realise what it is, though I know she'll soon learn, seen a few large bee's this weekend and the birds are noisy again, I love it!

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Just wait till she is a bit older she'll crack on n then that it constant winge n threats to childline for being cruel if u refuse pmsl

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No he didn't start a chain but one of the reasons he was kicked off broadway was that woolies manager complained, don't know why and thats when he set his sights on Blackpool, he did about 5years before someone asked him for a permit they just presumed he had one. :)

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I used to live in Coventry, when Adam was a lad. We had an ice cream van that only came round after 8.30 p.m. He did that because the ice creams he sold were more in the style of after dinner desserts; none of your cones with a dollop of raspberry sauce, this was big oyster-shell wafers with coffee ice cream topped with chocolate, fruit and nuts and a blob of double cream, that sort of thing. The kids were all tucked up in bed and didn't get a look in and he didn't sound any chimes, we just knew when to expect him. I'm not the greatest ice cream fan but his were to die for.

Here, a few years ago, we had someone who came on a Sunday at 4 p.m. and sold large tubs and blocks of ice cream from a refrigerated van. He didn't last long because once everybody had filled their freezers he had no more sales. We now have one lady who comes round, mostly at weekends around lunchtime, and sells the cornets and lollies etc. She's not too intrusive but you can get sick of hearing "Popeye the Sailorman" all over the neighbourhood, over and over again. Do they have to be so flippin' loud?