General Discussion
Apparently Dawlish has influenced a number of works of literature. For example : The Waste Land - TS Eliot Dead Souls - Gogol Death in Venice - Thomas Mann Thats for starters. More to come.
There was a film, the Never Ending Story, in which 'The Nothing' threatened to take over the world. The Nothing was just that - nothing, emptiness, absence of all light, movement, life, colour. Luckily some people got a sense of the process beginning in Dawlish and moved quickly to Ashburton, where the Nothing couldn't get them. Phew.
Something has certainly been demolished and apartments are being built. I can't remember what was there previously! I expect it WAS the Great Cliff Hotel. Don't expect anyone in Dawlish to kick up about it though - the most apathetic place I have ever lived in. Though if it was listed Private Eye might be interested.
Congrats to M Night S for a nice bit of creativity on this forum. Not sure if it was meant to be supportive or not, but it does express the Dawlish experience very well. By the way, if the webmaster is reading this I'd like to ask if this facility has been publicised. There is never any reference to it in the papers - there should be. The internet is a superb means of communication and internet ...
Thats excellent.
Not sure there are many visitors that I'd want to mix with! Commiserations re Cornwall - i went to visit a friend who was staying down there for a few months and it felt very parochial. Ashburton seems OK from the times I've been there and people tell me its a good place to live. I think there are more incomers moving there. BTW the posting that has interrupted my run is a good example of why I ...
And still going strong. My aim is to get an unbroken run of ten postings, though now I have said that it is guaranteed that someone else will post a new thread just for the sake of it. Its raining heavily today - there are few sights more depressing than Dawlish in the rain. When we first moved here, people said 'Why on earth have you moved to Dawlish?' We thought it a really nice place and did ...
I was told that if a shop was not trading it did not have to pay business rates.
Does anyone know why fish n fins closed down? Does anyone care? What will replace it - a poundshop? This is because yesterday I said Brunswick was more upmarket than the Strand - for how long though? The rot will spread there too - watch this space!
I live on the East Side. Please don't misunderstand me - I am not a snob. The target of my criticsm is the businesses that are making easy money by attracting the poorer sections of our society to Dawlish. I am also aware of a significant drug and alchohol problem here which I guess is a spin off.
