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I live on the East Side. Please don't misunderstand me - I am not a snob. The target of my criticsm is the businesses that are making easy money by attracting the poorer sections of our society to Dawlish. I am also aware of a significant drug and alchohol problem here which I guess is a spin off.
I've got some time to myself today and I need to go into Dawlish. However I feel 'chavved out' today so I am not looking forward to the experience. Has anyone else noticed that the Gays Creamery side of the Lawn is more upmarket than the Strand side? Why is this? Its like the Chelsea and Battersea of Dawlish with the Brook as the Thames, from a shops point of view anyway. Though when I say ...
Hmmm..so theres a rumour that Somerfield might be sold to Icelandic. Is someone trying to wind me up here? I know I was complaining about the prices in Somerfield, but Icelandic is the other end of the spectrum. Its a really downmarket shop. Surely Dawlish is not spiralling even further into decline?
The traffic can go over the bridge. It just needs widening by a few feet.
Last night a friend told me that she was walking along near Dawlish Warren and passed a child of about eight who was with her parents. She smiled at the child - as you do - and carried on walking, then heard the child say to her parents 'whats that b**** making faces at me for?' A pleasant vignette isn't it? I am horrified at how un pc I am becoming, making all sorts of comments about the way ...
On of course the 12th April, not the 11th. Its a very nice morning. I am curious to see what happens in Dawlish on May 5th in terms of turnout for the local and general elections, compared to the national average. I wonder whether the general apathy extends to elections; I somehow suspect it does though I may be wrong. Why is Councillor Chatworthy the only County Councillor NOT to have an email ...
Today I went into the library with some dog poo in a plastic bag. Sure enough I got my two pounds. Then I went down to the Brook where I watched the ducks. 'Quack Quack' they said. They're amazing, some of them look almost human. I had a wee in the toilets where the TOurist Information is located. This is brilliant, I could spend a whole day there, alternating between the Tourism information ...
I don't think its too much of a challenge to spot the genuine one. At least someone else is posting - infantile and a bit pervy though they may be. Someone said on the radio this morning in connection with another village that 'old people bless them don't exactly bring new life to a village.' The thing is that in Dawlish 50% of the population are under 50, so what are they doing? They can't ALL ...
Today I went to Coryton Cove wearing no underwear. As I passed by the occasional Sunday tourist, I grinned at them. They grinned back, unaware of my pantie-less secret. I could feel the ocean breeze blowing up my trouser leg like the desert sirocco. My scrotum felt the cold touch of King Neptune's breath. On the beach I exposed myself to a passing 'Virgin' train. A vivid counterpoint to the ...
This is the first of a series of daily postings that I propose to make in order to remind myself that I am alive in Dawlish. I am aware that only four or five people look at this website, which is a puzzle to me, but that is not my concern. This is a form of therapy, a way of surviving in a hostile, no not even hostile, but, in terms of people and relationships, art and culture, sterile and ...