howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Plenty to see and great weather for it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The main car park was almost full by 10 am.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
My grandchildren are up there (with parents) enjoying themselves. I'm annoyed that back trouble stopped me going with them.
Lew Finnis
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Worth a visit even without an event being on just for the views and of course it is cheap for us locals.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,560
Is it cheap for us locals? Do tell.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I was about to turn in Karl but spotted your post. Membership of the group costs one and a half times one day admission and covers all the special events held up there. I joined when I moved here in 2002 and have never lapsed. The website is chronic but the membership secretary's details are there.
http://www.dover-castle-friends.org/Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
I can only presume all of Dover had gone to the Castle yesterday afternoon about fourish?
Meanwhile Deal was absolutely packed on the front with not a space on the many 'memorial' benches,cyclists, walkers, families pick-nicking,queues for ice-creams, swimmers etc.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
That looks like our promenade, I remember the days when we used to be able to access it!
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
No problem with access and plenty of space to park up behind the Yacht Club for an hour for free.
Promenade absolutely deserted yesterday with a few people on the beach in spite of temperature in the 20s!
Presumably you too were sitting at home playing in your bedroom with your X-Box Reg?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
Alas I was working, would love to go back to the days when I could spend my days playing with my x-box, though we had a very different name for it in my day
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Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Philip Larkin - Toads
Why should I let the toad work
Squat on my life?
Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork
And drive the brute off?
Six days of the week it soils
With its sickening poison -
Just for paying a few bills!
That's out of proportion.
Lots of folk live on their wits:
Lecturers, lispers,
Losels, loblolly-men, louts-
They don't end as paupers;
Lots of folk live up lanes
With fires in a bucket,
Eat windfalls and tinned sardines-
they seem to like it.
Their nippers have got bare feet,
Their unspeakable wives
Are skinny as whippets - and yet
No one actually starves.
Ah, were I courageous enough
To shout Stuff your pension!
But I know, all too well, that's the stuff
That dreams are made on:
For something sufficiently toad-like
Squats in me, too;
Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck,
And cold as snow,
And will never allow me to blarney
My way of getting
The fame and the girl and the money
All at one sitting.
I don't say, one bodies the other
One's spiritual truth;
But I do say it's hard to lose either,
When you have both.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
