It apparently takes around 100- 110 years for a disastrous horrid loss of life to become…a children’s ride. 😂

I was at an event this month commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Dambusters raid. There’s a historical flypast, burgers, hotdogs and beers being sold, and kids playing on inflatable rides. Nice sunny day out.

And as I stood there, beer in hand chatting away I notice my youngest join the queue for an inflatable slide I had to double take to really see -
The Sinking Titanic Fun Slide.

I don’t have any pictures to show of this - curious novelty, because taking pictures of a crowd of other people’s kids in a play area is nowadays a bad idea. 😂 So you’ll have take my word for it when tell you that kids were climbing up an inflatable iceberg to slide down a tilting sinking Titanic into the blue mats below where Rose had allowed Leonardo diCaprio to freeze to death, despite there being room for two on that floating door.

It spun my head I’ll confess. Because by that logic there’ll be a 9/11 world trade centre water slide in the next 90 years. Or a Manchester arena attack ball pit, being hired out for village fairs, air shows and county shows.

I know things get more extreme as time goes on, I was just unprepared…