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neilh

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Thanks Lynne.  I missed your thread - so dow e know what the plan is for the money?

29 Oct 2012

Saw this in the news - anyone know anything about it and what tye money is going to be used for?  Was this as a result of the submission earlier this year - remember the video on the Lawn Dawlish awarded £10,000 for town improvements A South Devon town has been given £10,000 to help revitalise the high street and draw more people to the area. Dawlish has been awarded the money from the ...

Summer Time Ends
28 Oct 2012

@Carer oops, you're right of course.  lol. Temporal disturbance in the space-time continuum, obvioulsy a sign of getting old.

27 Oct 2012

If we forget about the war then I think the reason always mooted is that having the extra hour of light in the mornings is more likely to prevent accidents, especially for children going to school

Energy Savings
25 Oct 2012

Is this any use to anyone?  Opportunity to save costs if you use oil for heating. http://devonrcc.org.uk/c/63/the-devon-oil-collective?utm_source=Community+Council+of+Devon+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=bb5d1fb141-Events_Publicity10_11_2012&utm_medium=email

Yes great walk but not that easy if you're not a regular walker.  The climb out of Shaldon is notoriously steep and if the weather is as wet as it has been in recent months the back lanes from Beacon Hill down to the estuary can get muddy/slippery/deep!  The last stretch back along the estuary needs a lowish tide otherwise it's just road walking.

LOL!!

Look out for the Harvest Moon next weekend - it's the period of full moon closest to the equinox, so called because ....... The shorter-than-usual time between moonrises around the full Harvest Moon means no long period of darkness between sunset and moonrise for days in succession. In the days before tractor lights, the lamp of the Harvest Moon helped farmers to gather their crops, despite the ...

WORDS Words, Words that glide free-flowing in worlds where thoughts elide through metaphors of form that frame the mind’s meanderings. Absurd that we should bind our deepest longings, emotion-bursts, our anger, sadness, hopes and joy in pentametric  shackles that trammel us that blinker us in longitudinal, synaptic tunnels of darkest night. Words, Words that glide free-flowing ...

@chef  - glad to give you a chuckle.  I used to test by poking the jelly on a cold saucer but found it very variable.  So with scientific background I moved to thermometer for more precision!!  Batch of crabapple schnapps now made - leaving for a couple of months to mature ready for Xmas festivities.  First batch of crabapple juice ready for jellying tomorrow.  Smells delicious but we didn't get ...