Lynne
Blimey, the ideas for a novel about a small town and the machinations concerning its carnival just gets better and better. Trouble is, it wouldn't be a work of fiction would it?
I don't have an fb account either - but other family members do so I am able to follow EoD postings.
My daughter and her friends were at the Brunnie last night. Daughter says The Brunnie was positively heaving with people and that pram race contestants were calling in there.
@Carer - go on eyes of dawlish facebook. lots of info and comments there about the carnival.
This letter is in today's Dawlish Gazette: " Don’t wash dirty linen in public Wednesday, 14 August 2013 polly Jeanetta Brown, of Holcombe Road, Holcombe, writes: Having been a resident of Dawlish for 21 years I, along with many, have enjoyed the fun and thrills of the carnival since I was a small child. I am also very aware that the Dawlish Carnival is not only for the town’s ...
I'm toying with the idea of drawing JK Rowling's (she of Harry Potter fame) attention to all of this. After all she had a book published last year about small town politics (The Casual Vacancy) so perhaps she might like to write a sequel about small town carnivals. Perhaps we could ask for a slice of her royalties and have it donated to an event in the town. Any thought on what event? Carnival ...
"does anybody on here actually use the nature reserve or visit the bird hide?" Not me. (responsible dog owner)
I wonder what the Gazette will have in tomorrow's edition about all this? And I wonder how many letters it has received? Find out tomorrow, won't we.
This is the Torygraph's review of the programme. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10238532/Benefits-Britain-1949-Channel-4-review.html (and the comments underneath the review are worth a read as well)
Have checked the job again. It's a vacancy for an Air Traffic Control Assistant (as in being an assistant to the air traffic controllers) as opposed to it being a vacancy for an Assistant Air Traffic Controller (which is what I originally typed). The placing of that word 'assistant' does, actually, make an awful lot of difference.
