General Discussion
The 07:50 from Dawlish to Exeter this morning departed on time (in fact, slightly early!). I'm not sure what to do with those extra 3 minutes... Oh, I know, I'll waste that time by writing on dawlish.com... :-)
For the vast majority, the Easter holidays ended last Monday. There will be few ending their Easter holidays this coming Sunday. Still, it gives something else for Clive to complain about in his one-man quest to get the railway line to bypass our town.
I'm afraid it doesn't. However there are plenty of great little cafés in town and in the Warren.
Thank goodness for that!!!! This NIGHTMARE will finally be over and I'll get the missing 3 minutes of my life back!!! (Over-dramatic use of exclamation marks and capitals, deliberate)...
Hardly crippling, goodness me. It will go on for as long as is needed to ensure the safety of all concerned whilst the repairs to the seawall continue. And it's not even "every single train" anyway.
The weather forecast for today was terrible, so it was great to see the forecaster proven so spectacularly wrong. Andysport - are you joining the bullying brigade as well? More money than sense, clearly...
The forecast for Saturday and Sunday is actually for showers and sunny intervals. Enjoy your stay in Dawlish and the Warren.
My best wishes to you also that your greyhound makes a full and speedy (no pun intended) recovery. Beautiful animals.
It's been open for a fortnight! Great to see so many happy people (locals and visitors) around the town today, enjoying the April sunshine. Local businesses will have done well these last two weeks I'd wager.
Pleased to see that the preparatory work has commenced ahead of the desilting that's going to happen upstream from Dawlish. We've already seen the benefit of the initial phase, so hopefully this next phase (and subsequent phases in the town sections) will nail this on the head. That said, I was pleasantly surprised to see today just how clear the water was coming through the town. The water ...
