DJ's Posts on Dawlish Discussion

It strikes me that those who cry they should be allowed Freedom of Speech, rarely seem to want to extend the same privileges to those with an opposite view to their own.

They truly are that idiotic.  Huge queues towards Exeter this morning and huge queues from Exeter this evening.  It's been like this all week.  No-one seems to have any sense when it comes to simple things like this.

No HuwMatthew2, I didn't say that at all. In fact if you reread my post of 22 Oct at 23.04 you will see that I mention travelling TOWARDS Exeter and said left hand lane for straight on and right hand lane for turning into Sainsbury's or going full circle. So you may have misread that. On Saturday I followed a Nissan Micra from Dawlish all the way to the large roundabout at the far end of the ...

Don't forget about the large stones that get thrown around in waves that could hit anyone or anything in its way.  I remember seeing one of those photos in that shop in Park Road, Dawlish Blue I think it was called, that showed a large wave breaking over the station. The size of the rocks being thrown up in it were huge!!

In many, many years from now, when the sea levels rise and the coast of the UK is pushed further inland, the Dawlish Sea Wall will probably still be standing proud as a testament to the sheer amount of concrete poured into it over the last years or so.  It will be fantastic to be able to walk all the way along the sea wall again.  You don't realise how much you will miss something until you can't ...

That's really useful to know, thanks for posting that Lynne. My parents regularly go to London for hospital appointments and they use an Oyster card but I don't think they had any idea you could do this. I will pass the info on to them

Judith Chalmers you clearly worded your post to be patronisingly offensive.  If you don't like people telling you so, then you should avoid posting in such a way in the first place.

Very nice to see the new brown tourist signs that have been put up on the approaches to town along the A379.  A very welcome encouragement for people to stop off and visit Dawlish.

I managed to be more of a know it all than my teenage son last night when he mentioned that he had spotted it off the coast, and I just nonchalently said "oh yes, that the Gorch Fock" .  Nice to be able to do that occasionally so thanks for posting what it was

The difference is that many homes down here were bought by people already resident in the UK full time.  In some parts of London (various Boroughs have this problem, there is no "Borough of London", there are Boroughs that make up London) homes are being marketed abroad "off plan" before other parts of the developments are then marketed in the UK.  This is inflating the prices that are paid and ...

I always understood it to be from Dark Water, same as Dublin

I remember seeing one of the houses on the back beach at Teignmouth being repainted a very bright pink and was a bit taken aback by how bright it was - but within a few months it had faded in the sun to a very pleasant colour.  So she should wait out her 3 years and see what colour it is then!

Errol225 you might want to take a quick look at the date on the posting you replied to

@leatash using an alternative route is of course what a lot of people did, ourselves included on a lot of occasions, how bizarre of you to suggest that anyone would deliberately sit in a queue of traffic because they had to see what was going on with the wall.  but sometimes using that part of town was unavoidable and the queues caused in both directions were a hassle for access even if you didn't ...

Differing experiences at Torbay - on the one hand they saved my Dad's life because one of the doctors recognised the slightly unusual thinig he had wrong with him and got treatment sorted so quickly that he was saved from brain damage and possible death, so obviously very grateful to them for that.  But then we had a time when my son got concussion and by the time they saw him in A&E he had waited ...

Excellent to see another local independent store opening, and something a bit different too.  Dawlish has some fantastic independent businesses.  Wish them every success.

The sad fact of the matter is that private landlords in some instances have become greedy.  They are fully aware of the maximum HB that can be given for their property so they set the rent accordingly.  It has taken a change to how benefits are paid for anything to be done about this and hopefully now that people are going to have a maximum weekly amount they can receive, landlords will realise ...

There are a lot of changes happening in the exam systems over the next few years and students making subject choices in year 9 now are going to be affected by them.  My own children were advised to avoid certain subjects that had looked like good options just a few years earlier, because they were unsure how many GCSEs or equivalents they would actually be worth by the time they had come to the ...

keep the minute silence if you want to - don't keep it if you don't want to, no-one can make you do it either way, it is your own free and personal choice - end of story