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In the same road as the sadly now defunct South Pacific Bar, just head towards the beach direction, last shop before the Kings Arms pub

Next time you are in Teignmouth and in search of a pasty I can recommend Carols Cupcake Bakery (obviously other bakers are available to sell other cup cakes). They are 2nd to none. Coming from a pasty connoiseur that is praise indeed.

I think Andy Y needs to investigate your recent postings. First of all you use some dubious euphemism about gluing my pasty to the counter and now you are talking of 2' long Fun Size Mars bars (obviously other chocolate bars are available, but probably not from burger vans). What you do in your own time Captain is up to you. (At this point I wish I hadnt mentioned sheep previously.) Time for the captains meds matron!

It might have been more aesthetically pleasing at Dawlish to have put some curved pieces instead of all straight track.

I think Captain Kernow and his regimental band of the Orange Army should be awarded the freedom of Dawlish. This should allow them to drive their sheep through Dawlish once a year or maybe in more conventional times they can drive their Big Red Spidery Thing and Big Yellow Tracky Thing through Dawlish.

Have you tried 'model paTSY'? Might be even better.

maybe 'model pasty' next time! It might spare your blushes

Mon Capitan, I hope that is not a euphemism:》

Big Yellow Tracky Things, Big Red Spidery Things, Big White Hatted Kernow Thing and eventually Big Yellow Tamping Thing. Just waiting for some Big Many Axled Things carrying big and small human things.

Not sure that amount of grease is right on the buffers, otherwise the weathering looks great!

Gwiwer, The sea wall at the the town end in Teignmouth i.e. the part from just west of the swimming pool was built with a concave profile. East of this the sea wall is either much less concave or flat. On 5th February we were watching the sea at high water near the pier. The concave wall was returning the water well at most times with just the occasional (7th?) wave crashing over. The concave wall was constructed with a shelf as you mention but in places this shelf is now under a lot of sand. West of the pier the shelf shows whereas east of the pier it is buried. Along the sea wall, the part that supports the railway, again it is a case of at times the shelf is visible and at times the shelf is covered. One of the photos I took last Monday shows the handrail that was put in place many years ago to help you step down to the beach from the raised ledge at the bottom of the sea wall. This handrail now vanishes into the sand, I am not sure how deep the sand build up is exactly. Whilst watching the sea break over the railway sea wall, you could see that it was less dissipated by the sea wall shape than it had been by the concave wall in the town. Obviously these tides were high and the sea state much rougher than normal. At present we cannot access the beach eastward of Sprey Point going towards Smugglers Lane, but in the past I have seen the beach in part of that area quite badly scoured and in one area you could see the sea wall footings exposed. A friend who lives about 60-70 metres from the (concave) sea wall said that indoors on the night of the 4th he could feel the waves hitting the wall. Cheers LE

Isn't the sea wall footpath going to be at the same height as it was? Surely a short stretch of it cannot vary in height. CK's photos show the L-shaped pieces with a pre-patterned facet to the walk way.

We will have pipe and drum bands marching into Dawlish. The Dutch cricket team (who beat Ireland in the Twenty 20 cricket) playing against the Captain Kernow Select Eleven playing for the Big Red Spidery Thing trophy.

I am just starting my sales database Pete. I also have some original Victorian sand from the washed out wall, last touched by navvies circa 1840's. Bagged up it is available now.

Business venture here. Selling all the rocks/stones from the containers to visiting grockles as souvenirs. Where can I put an offer in for the containers? I am sure that with some well worded adverts 'almost new', 'only used once', "slight wear' I could sell the containers on ebay.

It's beginning to sound like a Hitchcock horror. Son of the Big Red Spidery Thing. Many spin offs here. Revenge of The Orange Army, Captain Kernow and The Orange Clad Boys (borrowed from an Elton John album)

In decades times fairy stories will be told to children of the orange clad people who invaded Dawlish and battled on the sea wall with the Big Red Spidery Thing that spewed concrete on the land. And how the fire brigade did pump water and made the cliff fall into the sea and behold didst though sea turn red with the blood of the Big Red Spidery Thing. And the mighty Cap'n Kernow who came from the land beyond the Tamar to save the Dawlishians. And there was great rejoicing and the Dawlishians did once again walk upon the beaches. Unfortunately someone built a Dawlish avoidance line and the lifeblood was drained from Dawlish and it self imploded.

As well as t shirts I think we need a web page devoted to the Big Red Spidery Thing and other Dawlish washout gods. Perhaps Bachmann will start modelling one.

Just caught the end of the BBC Spotlight item on the lunchtime news. The BBC South West reporter ended by saying that one Dawlish resident "wanted to see something more concrete". Am not sure whether it was an intentional BBC pun.

Still up on the road pumping it down to site tonight.

The damage to the sea wall at Sprey Point (it's where TEIGNMOUTH is spelt out). The incline leads down from Sprey Point to the beach on the Teignmouth side.

Sand build up on Teignmouth beach along towards Sprey Point. I remember when you could see the lower end of this handrail.

CK, I wondered if it was you and a colleague poring over paperwork with a guy with a car yesterday. (or maybe just showing him your latest modelling) Have the controlled landslips worked? LE