New Seafront Gadget.

• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  29 July 2011     08:16117336
  #1      
  

  ColetteB couldnt resist reviving her modelling career yesterday when I tried to take a picture of our new all singing all dancing seafront gadget. i dont know if it has been mentioned before but this was the first time I noticed it. There appears to be two of them.
  
  So I whipped out the camera like ye do, and did a bit o'snappin'... yes indeed it is a talking telescope. Well what can you say but...great stuff, Ive seen everything now. Never came across one of these before but then I probably dont get out enough.
  
  Note: its 50p for commentary and view
  and £1 for commentary and extended view
  so it says on the tin, so there you have it.
  You are advised not to point it at the sun.
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  29 July 2011     08:34117340
  #2      
  And very lovely you look too Colette. The telescope's a telescope, nothing special there.
  
  
  
  Roger
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  29 July 2011     08:46117343
  #3      
  nice photo there, i think the previous mute telescopes were 20 pence to use.
  
  there is a lot to look out at on our seafront so a quid for the whole works seems reasonable to me.
• Guest 640

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  29 July 2011     09:10117346
  #4      
  Yes she's wearing very well..considering she is now 60..yikes!
  I had to double check to see if it was okay to mention her age, as I dont want her coming after me wielding an axe through the air...lol!! but she's not bothered either way.
  
  Yes there is plenty to look at with the telescope, visitors love the shipping, nice cruise liner in today for example called 'Marina' dont remember seeing that one before, that follows on from The Costa Magica in yesterday. So plenty to look at for the visitor...and all that on top of the ferries etc. And on a clear day you can probably see them picknicking on top of Cap Gris Nez!
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 656

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  29 July 2011     11:25117368
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  Ah! shure they were the heady days of yesteryear when I used to strut my assets down the catwalk, great memories though. Howard, I remember doing a photo shoot in Brighton about a hundred years ago and the 20p telescopes were on the beach then But honestly, a talking telescope means I have to shut up for a full minute or so, now that is hard thing for me to do
  
  Thanks for the nice comments guys I was very pleased to reach 60 this year especially having been so ill a few months ago. I wouldn't harm a hair on your body PaulB, now where did I leave that axe
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  29 July 2011     11:32117369
  #6      
  a sqiud for bird watching,i wonder if it would give a running commertry of what they are wearing or not.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  29 July 2011     17:29117432
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  here is the liner referred to by paul in post 4.
  
  i think it has been here before though.
  
  

  
• Guest 645

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  29 July 2011     18:52117440
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  Great shot of the lovely Colette..are you sure you've not been using the Julia Roberts art of air brushing..now deemed illegal. You look hot Colette.. bugger the telescope
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 657

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  29 July 2011     19:09117445
  #9      
  Looking lovely Colette, never seen a talking telescope before.
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• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  29 July 2011     20:30117452
  #10      
  Colette - I knew there was something about you when we met - the poise and grace has now been explained!
• DT1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 15 Apr 2008
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  29 July 2011     21:03117459
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  Paul, has the extended view got extended commentary?
• Guest 673

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  29 July 2011     21:43117466
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  The cruise ship Marina was in earlier this month and is off for a cruise down to the Bay of Biscay and back here again.
  
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  What is interesting from the Oceania site below is that is the map shows her as going to London which is described in the itinerary as London (Dover).
  
  

  

  
  
  http://www.oceaniacruises.com/findcruise/balticandscandinavia/mna110729/default.aspx
• Guest 653

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  30 July 2011     06:52117478
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  Most cruise lines have that Ed - about Dover being the Port for London.
  
  Heaven knows what will happen when a purpose-made cruise terminal is created in the Thames Estuary, not far from the City. Will the majority of the cruise ships that call here, not do so ?
  
  It makes it even more important that we (someone) make Dover a cleaner, brighter and more welcoming Town, so we have a better chance of keeping them.
  
  We must prepeare for the future, but as I've been saying this for so many years and no one has listened, will they ever ?
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 697

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  30 July 2011     07:21117484
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  Most cruise lines refer to both Dover and Southampton as being "London"! Of course, a lot of the passengers on port of call visits will indeed make for London on coaches. As Roger says, plans for a new cruise terminal in London have been approved, so it's vital that Dover ups its game in terms of the look of the town and how the area is marketed.