howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The usual cry goes up every year about the effects on cats and dogs but never any mention of our feathered friends that probably suffer more as they are in the line of fire in trees.
The last few months has seen my garden turned into a café with 8 collared doves and a mixture of others grazing together. When I go out first thing to spread seed around there is nothing left over from the day before yet stuff I put out Sunday morning is still there and I conclude that the usual visitors are in a state of shock and don't trust anybody.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
Surely more at risk than birds on November 5th are persecuted Catholics. With the further demise of the private and public bonfire there's never been a more dismal time for Guys, and where can you go besides Lewes to have 'No Popery' shouted at you nowadays.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 62,352
John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
I guess the chap in question was simply attempting to portray himself as a “calypso singer”?
Bad mistake! He should have forgotten all about “blacking up” and gone as a white calypso artist.....much more authentic of course and would have avoided all the untold distress to those of a sensitive disposition.
Should have gone as the Milky Bar Kid, much safer!
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
that's nowhere near blacked up
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
John Buckley wrote:I guess the chap in question was simply attempting to portray himself as a “calypso singer”?
Bad mistake! He should have forgotten all about “blacking up” and gone as a white calypso artist.....much more authentic of course and would have avoided all the untold distress to those of a sensitive disposition.
Should have gone as the Milky Bar Kid, much safer!
Back in the 70s I done a limbo dancing course and I was the only white face there, my mates mocked me but I had the last laugh when they had to pay to use a public toilet unlike me with my new skills.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,102
The Law
'You must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, except for:
Bonfire Night, when the cut off is midnight
New Year’s Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year, when the cut off is 1am'
So who the Hell is setting off fireworks at 7am?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
I doubt very much the Edenbridge fool knows the difference between a calypso and a castanet. What the dickens is a PTA doing at a bonfire anyway? Who wants another anodyne display of conformity that we all see at carnivals. It should be an edgy, anti-authority, stick-it-up-the-man, contempt-for-power time. Horrible thought that some of these are now safe enough for some ignoramus councillor to prance around at, and get a prize for doing so.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yeah wgs, a years supply of bog paper. lol
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
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PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
‘Scarlet Lady’ arrived this morning just after 6am. A bit of a whopper me thinks.
Along Admiralty pier last night all the usual white lights were on, but last night they had all turned red.
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PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Can you spot the 'SCARLET LADY's' hidden message to Dover
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PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Virgin Voyages ' SCARLET LADY' - Dover Cruise Terminal
FIREWORKS tonight (Friday) at 10pm to celebrate inaugural Port of Call, straight from its Genoa shipyard.
and again on Sunday at 6.30pm
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 357
That's one ugly boat.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
TheThinWhiteDuke wrote:That's one ugly boat.
Especially from behind!
Fireworks looked quite impressive, but didn't last long.
PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
FIREWORK UPDATE - Sunday 23 February
The 'Scarlet Lady' is likely to be leaving slightly earlier than planned.
FIREWORKS now scheduled for between 6.15 - 6.30pm today
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
Brilliant firework display.I was surprised at how many people turned out,was quite a traffic jam down there.We didn't bother queing to get out but just left the car there and went into town for a coffee after,went back 40mins later to the car and the traffic was all gone,was so much easier.
PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Very good firework display tonight. Seems like the ‘Scarlet Lady’s’ departure has been delayed though. Still here at 21:20.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
Was low tide during the display.
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