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Sunny Teignmouth was struggling to be sunny today with sea fog hanging around. Mother has been rushed into hospital for check on possible PE as she has been short of breath recently. So I am sat in the Ambulatory dept. My missus is waiting for a gp call back for possible anaemia drugs. What an interview on Radio 5 Live this morning from Liam Gallagher. In a 2 or 3 minute interview he managed to say "you know what I mean" about 18 times. At one stage he managed a double "know what I mean" within seconds. Almost as eloquent as that orange orator over the pond.

Teignmouth station, certainly on the upside, was covered in tiles. Which at some time in the past was covered with tarmac. I can photograph them if you want.

No Mike. I intend keeping it, but there are people that seem to think that re opening an old rout is the answer. If that was to happen surely the increased costs for 2 lines would be pretty costly. So just supposing that Dawlish lost the railway and a Teignmouth-Paignton shuttle took place, what would the seawall maintenance cost be percentagewise of the present cost.

CK, in your judgement and for the benefit of people that believe that a north Devon route is feasible, if it was completed and all trains to Cornwall up and running (please stop tittering at the back). How much would the NR maintenance of the seawall cost in comparison to the present figures, which obviously includes rail maintenance? Allowing that cliff falls would be retained inside the seawall and they would not cause additional repair work.

The sky over sunny Teignmouth is rather strange at present. It looks like it will chuck it down in the Torquay direction but the opposite looks brighter. I think the Folk music performers may suffer. The Plymouth bagpipes may become the Plymouth waterpipes and the Morris may be puddle dodging. Just hope that their "blacking up" is waterproof. In 2 weeks, 6th July we have the inaugural Teignmouth airshow. For some reason the railway station has announced that the car park will be closed from the 4th-7th. This will in no way help to alleviate parking problems, especially as the equally large car park at the now closed Waitrose will also be closed.

Argh, the town is full of bell totin' morris. The town is like Kings Cross station concourse on a busy summer Saturday when the line has suddenly closed. Folk music weekend has happened. Can't move for persons lacking spatial awareness.

The locals are already forming lynch mobs because of the impending loss of the Holcombe beach. None of them explain where the present beach sand will migrate to and as the long shore drift is west to east there should always be a build up of sand.

In that instance the sea wall still has to be retained and maintained (as is the case anyway) to run the local trains.

..... and the Dawlish solution? Apart from compulsory purchases and the associated fairly huge engineering works plus realigning the Newton Abbot road there is hardly a place for a station much before Bishopsteignton.

I believe this to be somebodies thoughts on NR's plans, as I don't think NR would put the legend "no beach."

Somebody will be called into the old mans office in the morning about this incident.

This is pretty funny from a few years ago.

And if you put 2 mirrors facing each other and position yourself inbetween and look into one you can see loads of yourself. I'll get my jacket!

It's like a Government health warning. You look at the can, see it's ar5e about face and think you have had too much.

Thats what the OP meant. Trains going via Okehampton would serve hardly anyone except Dartmoor ponies, sheep and cattle. All the big population areas are way south, pretty much close to the present railway (for some reason).

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downed a snifter earlier of a bottled product, Canadian whisky mixed with maple syrup, courtesy of some Canadian visitors of a neighbour. Very smooth. A bit like Jack Daniels Honey. I guess seaweed schnapps is big your way.

Interesting on 5 Live last night hearing John Barnes saying that he doesn't want to keep hearing multi-millionaire footballers banging on about how they suffer racist abuse in foreign stadiums. He said he would rather hear them talking about black kids & knife crime.

Until middle aged white men, who are currently under represented, are given more commentary, presenting and punditry chances I am not watching any more sport. Last week a Rugby League programme was presented by a female! Rugby League! That bastion of female sport! Where men are men and women are scarce! I am off to watch naked Turkish wrestling. I M Angry of Devon.

The early rain has cleared and sun is now bathing sunny Teignmouth. The outcome of my wife having two appts at the surgery yesterday is that she will be referred to that dept at hospital for a spot of none shaving surgery. The NHS us gradually working around her body, right shoulder bone shave 11 years ago, right knee replacement 3 years ago, left knee replacement 2 years ago ...........

Don't these type of people usually open up a new business often in the same line of work? I wonder if and when that happens how many crowd funders he will attract.

In the old days you had a pedigree or a mongrel. No more mongrels now. These days it is all Shihtzpoo, Cockerdoodle, Labrasatian etc. No luv, you have a mongrel! Our Twatzen Izen hound is an Irish terrier crossed with A N Other, we've had him just over 2 years and in his first 4 years of life he had 4 owners. He hates cats, dislikes couriers footwear and tries to attack our neighbourhood hedgehog.

My dog is a Twatzen Izen hound.

Damn fine idea. Are you sponsored by Watneys? I'm gonna start tonight to lengthen the weekend

get down Shep