Beach Front Real Estate

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Dorset | Beach hut couples wait pays off

A retired couple have secured a lease on a beach hut after spending four nights sleeping in their car at the front of the queue. Alan Day, 70, and his wife, Valerie, 63, said it was "like winning the lottery".

The couple, who moved to the nearby Highcliffe area from London five years ago, have queued every year for a short-term hut and two years ago were "pipped at the post" for one of the long lets."

I've never heard this before in my life and I have no idea what it means, but "pipped at the post" is now my all-time favorite expression.