PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Had one at the bottom of our yard. Not on mains sewerage. No light, only a candle (if you could keep it lit), freezing cold. Two tier pine seats, one high, one low. Never made it to the upper tier. Spent most of the time trying not to fall in.
The youngsters today don’t know what they missed. The daily mail used to tear up nicely into little squares. Can’t do that with an iPhone!
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
Me too. Tower Street. Toilet next to the alley at the bottom of the garden. What I wouldn't give for a nostalgic moonlit trudge up that snowdriven path in boots and a blanket. Reckon I'm still up to it. (Neighbours always forgetting to replenish their toilet paper: titters all round when one of them had to shout down to the house to call up urgent supplies.)
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 3857- Registered: 27 Oct 2020
- Posts: 30
It's grim Down South!
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Me too. Tower Street. Toilet next to the alley at the bottom of the garden. What I wouldn't give for a nostalgic moonlit trudge up that snowdriven path in boots and a blanket. Reckon I'm still up to it. (Neighbours always forgetting to replenish their toilet paper: titters all round when one of them had to shout down to the house to call up urgent supplies.)
Remember that public toilet by the railway bridge?
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
It's beginning to lay on the roads now. Going to be dodgy getting to work in the morning.
I live on a fairly busy road into town, a bus route, but of course have seen no gritters!
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
No trains in any direction now.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Gritters have been out here in River.They have to do bus routes. They don’t do the road where I live although there is a busy Nursing Home Located here.We have a salt bin but not many young chaps to spread the grit .I cannot do it anymore,
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
replaced with a bus service
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
The roads here haven't been gritted - probably why there's just been an accident at the junction of Green Lane and Brookfield Avenue.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
we have had gritters up ayclffe today
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
Have to get to Sandwich tomorrow,just hope the roads are not too bad,its not so much the snowfall but when it drifts off the fields can cause big problems,and as in post 24,Karlos,i can remember that public toilet near the bridge,next to the council yard,down the steps a right dark n dindgy place.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
In all the years I have lived where I live I have done both the path and the road with the salt out of the bin but my legs just will no work like they once did
but will look at it again in the morning and if I can I will try once more to do it.In fact I use to like to do it it takes about a hour or more but it got me out doing a job ,the staff in the home need to get down there to work and vans etc,but sorry to say as one gets older things get hard to do.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Well done Vic
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Perhaps the home handy man will do it
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
It looks nice all white
But it's so disruptive
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Perhaps the home handy man will do it
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I think you need to take care Vic .I will try again to get the road salted.I was woken up by the gritting lorry going round about 2.00am .i think they do all of c Chilton Way not on a bus route .
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
Probably woken up by the same gritter about 12.10am.
Have just driven over to Sandwich, where it's a bit clearer.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I have done it about 0600hrs this morning, but it was hard work , so I think that will be the last time.
and get this rd open by 0800hrs ,but been out thereit is not that bad but I do think it needs some salt sand on parts of the close where the hilly part is so we see ho that can be done 