Was cold comfort during our holiday

wonder. The Slippery Dip is surely one of the best, and most famous, slides of all time.

Get into an itchy scratchy hessian sack and then race your friends down the track at speeds of up to 55mph.

Another hessian mat at the bottom stopped you so violently that if you didn’t leave the slide with some sort of semipermanent burn, you weren’t going fast enough.

Some snotty teen at the bottom would say, ‘You okay?’ (he didn’t care),

And through streaming eyes as you wiped the thick fibres from your bloodied knees you’d shout, ‘YEEESSS! MORE!’