howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i never saw one, i went out specially expecting to see a few in the folkestone road as the residents come mainly from countries that have a lot more snow than us.
my road being on a slope played host to never ending sleds, great fun but by the time they had finished the road was like a sheet of glass.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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just looked on the belguim war grave website -9 last night at the menin gate.brrrrr thats cold.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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I have a feeling that that Pauli Watkins fella has a new camera..just had a smashing collection through from him. Keeep on snapping Paul you're doing great...
Here's a couple of blinders to be going on with...
PICTURES BY PAUL WATKINS
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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And a couple more from Paul Watkins....
Deal roof scene with the Catholic Church Blenheim Road.
Hockneyesgue scene in winter...you might remember Paul did a pic of this scene prior to the snow.
Stunning photos, really gorgeous!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Lovely pictures PaulW, you can clearly see who has insulation in there Dormer windows and who has not. Tut-tut.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Great photos there. Love the birds
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Excellent pictures Paul, the bird pictures are something us point and shoot photographers can only dream of.
Audere est facere.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Lovely bird pictures, redwings (really should be called red-under-the-wings!) that have probably been forced over here from the frozen continent, a reminder that we're not as badly off as many.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the bird ones are stunning, hopedfully paul will have forgiven them for nicking his berries.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Wonderful photos PaulW, the close up shots of the Redwings are excellent. Well Done!
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A few from the Drop Redoubt yesterday. It looks spectacular up there.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just been sent this one taken yesterday, no doubt our ornithologists will know what it is.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Some brillant snow scenes looking at all the pictures above, you guys certainly were out and about with your trusty cameras yesterday, we even bumped into Young Scotchie on our walk in the snow busy as ever clicking away.
Would be hard to beat us for our array of pictures keep it up chaps we love to see them all.
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Guest 736- Registered: 5 Jan 2012
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Lovely pics!!!
Here's a thing PLEASE if anyone is thinking of venturing up St.Radigunds rd today please DON'T bother!!! This morning three cars have just made it half way up just to slide back down. One car spent the good part of 15 mins trying to get down the road. The snow still causing a problem without what has turned to ice.
Many a year that I have spent trying to get motorists parked up safely and pointing the right way rather than across the road. Vans bashing into the wall opposite!!!
Please be careful if you are coming this way. There won't be a gritter this way as it isn't a main road even though so many cars use it to either cut through to River or Folkestone normally.
So please don't come this way.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks for the tip mark, maybe others can let us know who things are where they live?
incidentally the town centre is clear from the town hall down as far as marks and spencer's, not too slippery from there to market square.
the pictures here keep getting better.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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It may be that the truth of, "You learn something new every day." is passed debate, but how often does a moment of one's day prove to be an utter revelation?
Last thing last night (Sunday) is the normal time for we to put our recycling box out. We recently learned that the contract for this service does not run to the climbing of stairs, so the box has to be taken down to pavement level.
It just so happened that last night I was naked (from the ankles down). What to do, as there was snow?
And here's the thing. We must all be aware of the effect that some odours have on our minds. The merest whiff can whisk us back to another time and place and set before our mind, in the greatest/minutest detail, a whole panoply of memories.
Off I trot with my box across the slippery and crunchy part-trampled snow. Not one single iota of recollection of ever experiencing this before came to my mind. I could easily have been venturing out across Mars or the Moon. Or rather more fancifully, striding out over water. The sheer novelty of this drives me to encourage each to have a go...you've tried;grass, sand and the warm limestone flag. Make your life complete, feel snow between your toes.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Howard, I think the bird is a turnstone, there are lots of them around Deal pier where they are really tame -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruddy_Turnstone.
All minor roads around Lydden are clear, we had a tractor with snow plough and gritter around early yesterday morning.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
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