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Need boxes please
12 Jan 2012

@lazlo - I have probably about 15-20 large cardboard removal boxes which you are welcome to have. I was going to put them on freecycle anyway. They are flatpacked so you'll need to reconstruct and tape them.

@Lynne - don't know who it was and apparently no reason was publicly given

12 Jan 2012

Interesting demonstartion of democracy in action. I understand that 9 people applied, 5 turned up at the Council meeting last night to make their pitch and the person appointed was one who didn't turn up!! Something rotten in the state of Denmark comes to mind.

Gurkha Restaurant
12 Jan 2012

Will try Don. Have always liked Nepalese food ever since my first sampling many years ago at Johnny Gurkhas, Aldershot, home of the Gurkha regiment. In those days the meals were served up in mess tins! I think it's gone more upmarket since then.

Last year was the driest in 20 years I believe although there was above average rainfall in June and August

New to town
7 Jan 2012

Try Anchor Inn at Cockwood for seafood

5 Jan 2012

A bit further afield try Gribbles butchers Ivybridge for Haldon venison - from the forests on Haldon above Dawlish.

AND NOW THE TEIGNMOUTH POST HAS RAISED THE ISSUE!! ........... Free ­parking confusion means drivers ticketed Friday, 16 December 2011 by John Ware THE ‘free’ parking in Teignmouth on Sundays is confusing motorists with several being booked. Fees are waived in all Teignbridge Council car parks, but county council on-street regulations are still in force. More than a dozen motorists were ...

I agree with Lynne. Shaldon has already built new flood defences and Teignmouth ahs had £4m allocated to start. So someone locally is taking it seriously. One problem in dealing with global warming is that it's a generational thing. The signs are happening now but the major effect will be in 30, 40, 50 years time so many people believe selfishly that they don't have to worry about it - they'll be ...

It was TDC - they act as agents for DCC.