General Discussion
Can anyone explain why as soon as it's holiday time the roads are jammed up. This morning trying to get to Sandy Lane and the traffic was back down Exeter Hill and right back along the Strand. All that could be seen were some guys from a parked white van (causing its own obstruction) doing something by the end of High Street, near the garage. It's bad enough that Exeter Road has traffic lights but ...
Hope the owner of the dog picked up.
She's been coming to the Manor for surgeries for several years. Do you mean that she didn't know where she was?
If you look at Michael Clayson's posting on Facebook in answer to people living next to the site, you will see that Network Rail has been told by the Government to get the trains running again; that is the priority, everything else is secondary.
What freebies? Haven't people paid in all their working lives i.e. tax, National Insurance and Graduated Pension (which is something most people tend to forget). Having administered people's wages for most of my working life I can testify that under PAYE people pay a great deal of money to the Government, and this is all before the imposition of indirect taxation. And better-off pensioners still ...
Thank you, Michael. I'm sure this will be of help to anyone in this situation. I'm just astounded to think that someone at the council didn't have the wit to relax the red tape just for a bit in what is surely a one-off emergency.
Is it true, as I have heard, that Teignbridge won't let families evacuated from the sea front take advantage of the offer from Lady's Mile to put them up in caravans for the duration because it contravenes their (Lady's Mile) planning regulations. If so, what a disgrace; can't they just forget about their bureaucracy and red tape for once in what is a very stressful situation for all concerned.
Have you given up that job working at the chip shop, Elvis?
Well Old Fart and Elvis Presley we must be quite near neighbours and yes, our power was off. When I rang the helpline the girl said there were no losses in the Dawlish area and to check the fuses, which we did. After a while a girl from Torquay rang and said there were a few properties off and they would send round an engineer. He got here about half an hour later but by that time we were back ...
A very Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year to everyone who posts on this site; and please resist the urge to throw yourself (or anybody else) off Shaldon Bridge.
