Cassandra
Don You're right that local festivities ofter concern events of a royal nature, but can you suggest anything else that would prompt people to take to the streets in celebration - the end of war comes to mind but nothing else seems to unite people in this way.
In summer, if the weather's nice, there's nowhere better than Dawlish Warren beach for keeping the kids amused all day - you don't need to run the gauntlet of airports, queues, etc. But only, of course, if you get fine weather - nothing worse than huddling together on a freezing cold beach. Also, of course, you need to take your own food as the takeaway food is rubbish and the service is dead ...
Also a lot better than the current Poet Laureate.
I seem to remember that Jane Austen also had links with Dawlish. Do you think that there will be an Austen Place?
If I can butt into this, a couple of small towns that I visited last year come to mind. One is Honiton and the other is Bridport in Dorset. Both of these towns have a thriving high street with what you might call 'proper shops' selling things that local people buy, not just food products but clothes and toys like Lego which you can't get any longer in Dawlish since Davidsons closed and obviously ...
I have a small group of starlings which gather in a bush in my garden. The only thing which seems to have done them harm is a sparrowhawk which has taken about 2 or 3 over the past few months.
Although I am a novice at understanding politics, I seem to have heard that the politicians are very reluctant to do anything that might frighten bankers into moving elsewhere as they contribute vast sums in taxes to the Treasury. I don't know how true this is, maybe someone will enlighten me if this is not the case. Didn't Vince Clark used to be in Erasure?
Good luck to the residents with their objection. Soon there won't be any green spaces left.
The reason I asked which way you were facing is because they must be roosting somewhere around there & I can't think where it might be. In Teignmouth,for example, they roost under the pier & so you see them swirling around before they settle down for the night. How many of them do you think there are, only approximately of course.
Thanks for info on location, but are you facing seawards or inland when you see them?
