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  Love Andrew's suggestion re the flags, the more the merrier. Would add a Red Duster to the list in recognition of the British merchant vessels in the port, and a White Ensign for the rare occasions that the RN makes an appearance and to commemorate the building of the Admiralty Harbour and the legendary exploits of the Dover Patrol.
  
  I always find the flags flying over the Castle disappointingly small. Speaking to one of the custodians some years ago, he told me that they usually fly a small storm jack to save on costs. Would like to see giant Union flags and St.George's Crosses fluttering in the breeze.
  
  Re the Italian flags, I was living over Blake's when the Italians beat England at football some years ago, put us out of the World Cup or something. I heard commotion down in the street and looked down to see yobs tearing down the Italian flags which adorned the Italian restaurant further down the street and running off with them with Italian waiters in hot pursuit. They never put them up again in the years that I was living there.
  
  I have a collection of weather-beaten flags from my days deepsea, many of which used to adorn the walls of our flat. There are probably not many abodes in Dover which boast an MPLA flag from the civil war in Angola, complete with crossed cogwheel and machete. Or a German WW1 naval ensign acquired on the internet to go with my painting of the famous light cruiser S.M.S. Emden, painted by one of the crew and retrieved from the wreck by my great uncle Alf. Her indoors is heavily into interior design and decreed that they had to go, but they will be back, little by little!

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