Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
I'm getting fed up, as I'm sure are others, with the awful negativity of the weekends postings. I've been off for the last two weeks ( school holidays) and I've been out and about in Dover looking at all the lovely places and scenery we have on our doorstep. I've taken lovely photos of the seaside and the countryside, seen little lambs skipping about, listened to the birds singing and seen beautiful bluebells carpeting the woodlands - all this around and in Dover. What is the matter with some of you that you can't see these simple pleasures but have to go on and on and on moaning?
Also do we have to have the subject of toilets on every thread? Vics story about little old ladies who can't walk to Premier - how did they get to the seafront? By car I would imagine. So they get in the car and drive along to the loos - shimples!!
And don't start me on the sarcastic comments on the politics front .......
Ok I've said my piece and will wait to be shot down! I'm going back to my happy little world and tomorrow will be taking my lovely group of disabled children to school, they always seem to be happy too!
There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
Jacqui, I am so glad you could hold it in until you reached the correct repository for your thoughts.
Still, you can change all this in ten days or so?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#3
Another thread on loos!
Always complaining! Every ferry is furnished with at least forty of them. There's also one at the end of the pier, next to the lighthouse. Isn't that enough?
But on second thoughts, may-be the absence of loos will annul the need for a cable car from the Castle
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#4
Well said Jacqui.
We all know things aren't perfect, but we don't have to keep going on about them.
This is a great Forum, but we should be using it for positive reasons and ideas.
As I said when I became Dover Chamber of Commerce's Dover Business Support Manager, I have a long list of things that I consider, should be done to help move Dover forward. We know what happened there.
Now that I am working as Channel Chamber of Commerce's Dover Business Support Manager, there is strill all those things to be done and worked on.
Dover can look smart, can have flowers up and down Cannon Street and Biggin Street, can have the run-down buildings looking smart, can become a destination, can have a real market here - but it also needs the support of the business community to achieve it.
Roger
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
We were in Dover in time for Zeebrugge, and spent the next couple of days in Dover too.
We had as always a fantastic time, and Dover is one of the friendliest places I know. There was so much going on and to be involved with, and every day we were out we ended up chatting our way all along the High Street and back. The Easter service at St Mary's was a superb and warm celebration of such a very important day, the Belgian band and French visitors were enjoying Dover hospitality over the weekend, we walked out to some beautiful places, Simon took heaps of photos, and we were able too to research some wonderful historical rarely-seen things. Oh, and yes, we even got some good shopping in locally (and I got exactly what I wanted, easily!)
It is a shame to knock Dover. So there are a lot of things that could be done and should be done - but there is also so much that is positive and of which to be proud.
Keith Sansum1
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#6
there are lots of positives no one denies that(but some try to)
but theres also negatives it's how you highlight them
it's like the tories view on immigration they say you shouldn't shy away from raising the issue
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#7
We do live in a beautiful place and some of the photos on this forum have really highlighted that. We should cherish what we have - of course we should challenge things and flag up deficiencies but we need to keep the beautiful face of Dover well within sight! I love it here, and am not ashamed to let people know that!!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#8
BERN;
Being born(yes i was born lol) and bred in Dover i feel so much passion for my lovely town.
i get so distressed to see how things are.
i try to be as positive as i can
nice to hear from you jacui
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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#9
It's not a problem to have a good moan now and again Jacqui, I think it clears the system.
Mind you I'm not posting much at the moment whith some of the garb thats on here. ( sorry Boss but its true )
Keith, how do you manage to get one in about the tories every time?
The mind realy does boggle.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#10
I could not agree more Ian.
Seems to me it is all about point scoring at the momentSMILEY:, it gets very boring and pointless after a while.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#11
A proposal: lets put the polling stations in the public loos on 5th May, that should attract some crowds
#12
I have been out and about recently (hospital transport!) and I too have appreciated how lovely Dover is. From almost any part you can look up and see the hills. We have some old and some interesting buildings - some that are both.
We also have some eyesores, but I have said before and I still say, that if only Dover was cleaned up - if every landlord made sure that their property was kept clean and sparkling (and I refer to the buildings on the main thoroughfare through the town), the whole place would look great. We are not some poor industrial town, dirty by reason of factories but a seaside town that should look fresh and inviting.