General Discussion
frannie, is it not possible that you and your young family could grow with the town. if dawlish becomes a more affluent town with more upmarket shops and businesses, then if those new employers are worth half their salt they will thrive by looking after their employees. this town will offer your children absolutely nothing by continually encouraging cheap tatty pound a shot pubs, betting shops and ...
i dont work anymore thankyou sir
my dear olive you are so negative. there is absolutely no reason why dawlish cannot move into the bracket of an upmarket quaint seaside town. with careful nurturing and selective encouragement towards suitable shops and services our town could be an absolute haven. if they were overhauled and maintained to a good standard look at what the town has: a pretty stream, a lovely lawn with bandstand ...
i think dawlish is crying out for a more upmarket b&b. i believe we have a small number, but mostly seem to be of the tacky variety. i am fiercely campaigning to maintain dawlish as a select small seaside town with as little expansion as possible, but a revamp of as much of the town as possible. we need to get dawlish categorised into the select band. this obviously means discouraging the less at ...
a beautiful morning i encountered today as i again walked from dawlish to the warren and back again. on my return i made acquaintance with a young couple and their two nippers. very pleasant folk and more than welcome in my dawlish. it just goes to show that not all tourists are the kiss me quick, cripple cock swilling buffoons we get during the summer months! i even gave them a tea and barley ...
a very good friend of mine often comes down to dawlish to visit me and stays for a few days. she is black and has never comented on encountering any racism towards her. also a couple of gentlemen i am good friends with run a b&b together and they also have never expressed any discrimination towards them. obviously we will get a few bigots posting on this forum, but as everyone who knows me, i am ...
Just a little trivia if anyone is interested. The famous rock group Simple Minds once played a concert at the Dawlish Grand Hotel. I have just had a look at some of my memorablia and it was the Life in a Day Tour, 11 April, 1979. A close friend was involved with the hotel, and although not quite my taste, it was a memorable event in more ways than one. I wonder if anyone else has any recollections ...
We could all turn our lights off for an hour this evening, we could then spend all day tomorrow cutting down every tree in this country, everyone could drive a 4x4 24 hours a day and we could all burn coal fires 24 hours a day, for the next twenty years. And it would make not a jot of difference to this planets environmental predicament. The damage is being done and has been done on a majorly ...
I have read many of your previous posts Viaduct and I think that it just goes to show that there are many like minded people in Dawlish. Like me, you seem to share the general opinions of the real old school born and bred Dawlish folk. Obviously one or two buffoons enter this forum with their lily-livered views intent on destroying our beloved town. At least we can appreciate what we have before ...
Are you really saying you are not in any way inconvenienced by the influx of tourists. Why do so many people come on here and dictate to the world that dawlish needs this, dawlish needs that. Why can't we be a quaint little town that just happens to be by the sea. We dont need skate parks and mammoth superstores and the like that these places attract. Also, please dont question my being. Whenever ...