bryony's Posts

No high horse plasticpeter, perfectly calm, perfectly happy and content - just wanting to correct an untruth that had been posted and then jumped on by various members because it gave them the chance to have a moan about Vodafone. Along with a lot of people I don't agree with Vodafone's tax arrangements, but that had nothing to do with two perfectly nice members of our local community who were ...

But Lynne people who stay at home and look after children etc can have their NI paid if they receive certain allowances (such as Child Benefit) which is why it is always recommended that the person most likely to stay at home (usually the Mum) is the person named as receiving the benefit so that they are have their NI contributions paid for them. So they don't miss out on getting full pension ...

Couldn't agree more monkeyboy - tried it once and would NEVER go back again, the food was so awful we threw most of it away, would rather be hungry.

As was pointed out in an earlier post, many businesses who are not VAT registered charge very similar prices to those that are, partly because it is all about supply and demand and making sure you can sell your product, but partly because a non-VAT registered business cannot claim VAT back on purchases made of its raw ingredients, stock, whatever. So overall there isn't always much difference in ...

I don't think anyone would say the unemployed are less deserving of services and it is frankly unrealistic to expect a private sector business to suddenly create jobs where there is no money available to pay people to do them. All that creates is even more burden on the state to pay out even more money - if private enterprise just works for the government in whatever guise then that is still ...

But who would employ them and to do what? Governments cannot create real jobs in the private sector, only wealth creators can do that, which is why they are needed in the economy whether we like the idea or not.

If it stops the town centres around turning into no-go areas on too many nights of the week then it can't be a bad thing. Loads of youngters get very drunk at home on alcohol bought cheaply at supermarkets before they go out and then top it up with drinks bought at pubs and clubs. 24 hour licences helped to fuel this and they should also be banned. My elderly parents live on a route up from the ...

Libby didn't say the population is decreasing burneside, what she said was that the UK is not replacing its population. The population increase has little to do with number of births from people who were themselves in turn born in the UK. Think about it in family generations - in my own family you don't have to go back many generations to see it as normal for there to be 6-8 and sometimes more ...

I haven't seen much about this scheme - what would being chosen give Dawlish? This is genuine interest, nothing sarcastic!!

No Lynne you are not quite grown up, you just want to guilt people into the idea that they are not allowed to have a bit of fun, enjoying a special occasion, without feeling the need to put their hand in their pocket yet again for a charity collection. You have no knowledge of the financial situation of a lot of people who will be celebrating, yet you would be quite happy for them to have to pay ...

I was told by a friend who lives in Exeter that the local radio does (or did, it was a while ago she told me) a feature of the most expensive and cheapest fuel in the Exeter area each day and it actually helped to reduce some prices and keep them far more level than they had been. The trouble is that round Dawlish there is too little competition and so they are far less likely to be bothered by ...

I think you mean Love Lane which runs behind the houses from the main Teignmouth/Dawlish road and then comes out on the lane above the fields that then run down into Mules Park. The wall has been repaired in various places over the last 15 years because various sections of it became unstable. In some places it has been lowered, in others just strengthened. The whole path runs in a sort of gully ...

Why not name and shame people? If you've nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about with this thread, and if it makes Nelson feel better after what has happened to him, then what is the problem with that. If it makes just one person think twice about committing "petty" crime, then that can only be a good thing.

Unless YOU directly affected by this change, why do you need to know so many details? If it means that those who need larger houses, who are currently squeezed into smaller properties can benefit by these changes, then the inconvenience of having to more slightly out of area for those who have had the benefit of a larger property when they needed it but who can now downsize because that need has ...

Really? So that tunnel the Victorians started to build under the Channel is just a figment of our imaginations then? I'm sorry but that is just such a daft statement.

Lynne I am very happy to provide examples of other small towns - Topsham is the closest one that springs to mind and I know for a fact that LOTS of Dawlish people, with plenty of money to spend, choose to go over there to do their shopping from a good variety of independent shops. Bridport I agree is another, Totnes and Honiton also and the list could go on with towns from all over the UK. Even ...