Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
Love that Captain.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Reading this forum and elsewhere people's attitude to the wintry conditions vary.I recall a few years back being at DDC looked out of the window. to see a blizzard.I managed to get a taxi to the three cups did not go for a drink I might add .The taxi driver felt he would get stuck if he ventured into River.I then walked home along Lewisham Road to Chilton Way.I was about seventy.thought nothing of it.Now No one seems to care about their neighboursHere In Sanctuary Close because of the hill and the the land lies low we get black ice..Luckily my younger son says he will pop round and put some salt down .We have these salt bins around the village but half the time no one bothers to use them .I wish I was able to get out and help but age has caught up with me.
The same about getting to work ,Im pleased my Grand daughter was able to get tp William Harvey where she is a nurse.
In my younger days I was a telephonist and I recall getting the train from Slough to Iver where I worked.I had to walk nearly a mile to get to the exchange in snow drifts .If you did not go to work people could not use their phones.
I also had to help my dad when I was a child deliver milk .everyone expected their milk.
We were brought up tough.So now it makes me sad that a lot of people donot enquire how their neighbours are.
Rant over
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Had a walk into town this morning and once I reached the Folkestone Road there were no slippery patches and the town centre was completely clear. Unfortunately most people must have looked out of their window and decided everything would grind to a halt. A bus even went up Military Hill.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Just thawring now.The pavements still icy.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The cold weather certainly sharpens appetites, the cat came in this morning and I had to refill her bowl twice and the bird feeders have taken a bashing.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,140
It's 11.40 and I've just 'phoned my Doctor's Surgery in Deal for an appointment. Not urgent. Hoping for something in next two weeks.
Can I do 16.40 this afternoon? Loads of cancellations due to weather!
Thank you wimps!
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
Just chatted to my friendly Yodel delivery man, all Dover roads he has been on are OK, he is not so sure about the rural routes this afternoon.
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
The UPS delivery man says the same, he's still in shorts by the way!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,039
A couple of hours' white glory for those of a boreal disposition to revel in after almost four years of snow drought.
Here is a picture I took, albeit of Canterbury.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,140
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,039
Sarcastic and gratuitously hostile.
Andrew takes an interest in what's going on around him and doesn't feel the need to put others down to score points.
Be more like Andrew.
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Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,039
https://uk.pinterest.com/androidandreas/
Especially for Captain Haddock. Whoever they may be.
Andrew enjoys beauty.
Andrew wants to share that with others.
Andrew is not a mean-spirited killjoy.
Andrew expresses himself in his own words.
Andrew thinks the wind-up culture is a manifestation of the underlying spite and misanthropy lurking in many of the southern English.
Andrew does not patrol the forum waiting for someone to be picked on so he can join in like nasty little dog over some tussle that was over years ago.
Andrew does not hide behind the cloak of anonymity.
Andrew could not care less what anyone thinks of him.
Andrew thinks sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Be more like Andrew.
Guest 744- Registered: 20 Mar 2012
- Posts: 412
Andrew: looks like Dane John, Canterbury. Beautiful in all seasons.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,140
Met Office issues a weather warning for more snow and ice across Kent.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/more-snow-and-ice-across-118893/
My carer was just saying how much she enjoyed the light touch of frost earlier in the week and how she is keeping her fingers crossed that she might wake up to a good 6".
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
That's global warming for you, normally a light touch of frost is followed by prolonged icy spells in the southern counties
Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The snow has done Dane John Gardens a favour as the last few times I have visited in good weather there was plenty of anti social behaviour going on. I wouldn't like to live in those houses to the side however nice they are.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Dover snow scene
Western Heights 13 January
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