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Even if the railway gets re routed via Okehampton the sea wall still has to be maintained. I am not up on rail financial facts but paying two costs when combining them into one does seem unlikely.

beg your pudding?

It's mostly raining quite a lot in sunny Teignmouth today although Babbacombe is still visible. Herve is my favourite stinky cheese but being Belgian it's probably not available here. Newton Abbot market stocks Stinking Bishop, so it's not all bad.

Happy birthday Brian from darkest Devon

We often oven bake a camembert with a little white wine in the cut top and sometimes with lardons on the top.

If you can't get Brie de Meaux, Le Rustique Brie & Camembert is pretty good. My wife trained me to take the box lid off and press the centre of the cheese to see if it was ripe enough to buy and eat. President brie and camembert is not quite so nice.

My Dad had his aorta checked at 82 in 2011, had the operation to correct it, and the following morning died of a massive heart attack.

I never understand this. Why does it only affect you at 65? Why not 64.5 or 66? How come it is that specific?

We have a meeting in Teignmouth tomorrow and next Weds (which I can make) to see plans and discuss.

Two of my favourites are Disturbed...... Sound of Silence and Alpha Blondie ....... I Wish You Were Here

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/plans-unveiled-protect-dawlish-railway-2962444?????

Nice idea. Dawlish Lawn floods at times. If you built a new station under the Dawlish Road carpark you might just as well realign the track and use the present station as it would only be about 200 yards away, open to the air and away from the sea.

That is pretty much what they plan. Build a new sea wall some distance seaward of the present one, back fill it and slew the track seawards away from the cliff. We will then end up with a path on both sides of the railway line, instead of just seaward as is present.

This is true, as anyone that understands long shore drift will know. The groyne that was repaired cost approx £500,000 (iirc from the councillor) whole new planks were just torn off. This was the westernmost groyne by The Point. Nearly all the others are in a worse state than this one.

Recently the loss of sand on Teignmouth town beach has been of concern to locals. The sand has also vanished from The Point by the harbour entrance. Dredging of the river channel between Teignmouth and Shaldon in recent months may have helped this sand loss. Whilst the sand was vanishing from the town beach it was building up, much quicker than longshore drift, to the east of the town. East of Sprey Point, where Teignmouth is "lettered" there are some large rocks on the beach immediately adjacent to the Sprey Point wall. Last October these rocks, about 4 feet high in places and for a distance of 20 metres or so, were fully visible. A few weeks ago when I went there the sand had covered them completely and nothing was visible. Sometimes sand removal and replacement happens within days/weeks and sometimes the 2 are much further apart. The lack of groynes on the beach doesn't help with retaining sand. One groyne repaired last year has already fallen apart. The Holcombe stretch of the beach is hardly used compared to the other stretches of beach.

Following on from last weeks hail storms and high, tree toppling, winds Belgium yesterday had huge amounts of flooding in parts of the country. I guess it was similar to what parts of the UK received yesterday. We seem to be fairly safe here as we are quite high up, but so is Dawlish station which stands several metres above road level and one end of it opens towards the promenade. Even so the station has flooded between the platforms. How does that work?

Weather in sunny Teignmouth is today variable. Babbacombe is visible at present but 20 mins ago was unavailable for a sighting. The illuminated Waitrose signs were proudly powered by electricity last night despite the shop having finally closed at 4pm on Sunday. If it is to become Lidl as is suggested it will be a pretty mahoosive one. I wonder what becomes of the car park for the interim period? Just adjacent to the town I would hope it was left open but I doubt it will be.

Today I will mostly be supporting Belgium!

Good to see the Irish tonk the mighty Gibraltar

We had at least one road that had been resurfaced with tarmac back whenever it was done. Every time a major hole was dug for one of the services the old wooden block road surface was revealed and broken through.

The commentator thing is a concern with me. You get Glenn Hoddle chuntering on about putting balls into the pockets and running the channels etc and then you get the female "she kicked the ball into the area."

The female commentators are just as bad. They have the talk but not the detail.

3rd place playoff, as much fun as picking mouse droppings out of your porridge.