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Chris Dunn View from the bridge Column A fortnightly look round the Teignmouth and Shaldon area |
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Those things that put Friday, 03/May/2013 br> |
Counting the cost of Friday, 19/Apr/2013 br>FOR a stroll that’s commonly regarded as ‘relatively flat’, the walk from Teignmouth to Dawlish is remarkably lumpy. |
Back to reality down on the Den Friday, 08/Mar/2013
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Friday, 22/Feb/2013
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Back to front down Friday, 08/Feb/2013
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Coffee and a surprise on Friday, 25/Jan/2013 br> |
The 364 unwanted gifts Friday, 11/Jan/2013
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A time to be looking at ‘maximising the asset’ Friday, 14/Dec/2012 THE district council has two choices: it can sell the old ferry workshop in Shaldon to the regatta committee for redevelopment as a community asset; or it can sell the site on the open market. |
Welcome to this week’s Friday, 16/Nov/2012 WHO are we going to vote for in this week’s election of a Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall? Until I saw a helpful page of candidate profiles in last week’s Post, I’d never heard of any of them. |
here goes the sun Friday, 02/Nov/2012 T>MERCIFUL heavens – did you see how the sun came out last Saturday? In one blast, any hope of the Indian summer we thought we deserved went out the window in a triumphal blaze of sunshine. |
They that go down Friday, 19/Oct/2012 NO matter how many times you’ve previously seen it happen, a 100-metre long cargo ship making a handbrake turn round the Point at Teignmouth never fails to provide a compelling spectacle. |
Back to real life – it’s Friday, 14/Sep/2012 br> |
This week it’s ‘View Friday, 07/Sep/2012
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It’s a generation game Friday, 31/Aug/2012
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A spoonful of vinegar Friday, 24/Aug/2012 > |
Teignmouth, a ‘Classic Friday, 17/Aug/2012
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What a way to spend Friday, 10/Aug/2012 br> |
What goes on in the jobsworth's head? Friday, 03/Aug/2012 Who knows what goes on
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It all comes down to Friday, 27/Jul/2012 > |
From silly boots to Friday, 13/Jul/2012
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A busy afternoon on Teignmouth promenade Friday, 06/Jul/2012 PERHAPS this rotten weather doesn’t really matter that much. |
Letting it all hang out Friday, 15/Jun/2012 r> |
Which came first, Friday, 08/Jun/2012
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Which came first, Friday, 08/Jun/2012
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Carrying a torch for Friday, 01/Jun/2012
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An Olympian view Friday, 25/May/2012 br> |
Levelling the playing field at Broadmeadow Friday, 18/May/2012 THERE’S an edgy air of calm among Teignmouth’s retail community as we watch the building work progress at Broadmeadow. |
They threaten to cut us off without a penny Friday, 11/May/2012 THERE was talk on the electric television recently about a campaign to consign the one-penny coin to history. |
Who’s going to give Friday, 04/May/2012
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A lot to learn from Friday, 20/Apr/2012
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The veg counter and the one that got away Friday, 13/Apr/2012 TEIGNMOUTH’S more savvy retailers must be thinking quite carefully about how they will compete when Morrisons comes to town. |
The Lone Ranger Friday, 06/Apr/2012 r> |
A 12-minute fling Friday, 30/Mar/2012
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The wheels on the bus Friday, 16/Mar/2012 The wheels on the bus |
From Poole Harbour Friday, 09/Mar/2012 br> |
A good omen on the cards for Girl Rona? Friday, 10/Feb/2012 WASN’T it heartbreaking to see the Girl Rona lying helplessly on her side all last week? Her plight became more and more distressing as the days passed and the sea continued relentlessly to pound the stricken trawler, stuck fast by neap tides on the perfidious Spratt Sand. |
Let’s get creative Friday, 03/Feb/2012 br> |
A?recipe for another Friday, 27/Jan/2012 A?recipe for another |
Just another winter’s Friday, 20/Jan/2012 r> |
An invitation to Friday, 13/Jan/2012 An invitation to |
Let there be light, Friday, 06/Jan/2012 br> |
What price a little piece of local history? Friday, 23/Dec/2011 ALERT! The district council wants to flog the Shaldon Ferry Boat House to the highest bidder. |
Grit expectations in the bleak midwinter Friday, 16/Dec/2011 SNOW again this year? It’s a fair bet. |
Nobody wanted it but we got it anyway Friday, 09/Dec/2011 TEIGNMOUTH Town Council said no. |
The hapless slip that Friday, 02/Dec/2011 > |
The silent majority Friday, 25/Nov/2011 The silent majority |
Meanwhile, back at Friday, 18/Nov/2011
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At the sign of the Friday, 11/Nov/2011 br> |
Compost making: a metaphor for life itself Friday, 28/Oct/2011 ONE of the joys of autumn is that, as the air temperature drops, the steam really starts to rise from the compost heap. |
I do like to stroll along Friday, 21/Oct/2011
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Pay as you tip? It was rubbish from the start< Friday, 07/Oct/2011 br> |
All the fun of the fungi Friday, 30/Sep/2011 br> |
Many congratulations Friday, 23/Sep/2011
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The mysteries of the universe explained Friday, 16/Sep/2011 WHEN I was a small boy, I startled my parents by announcing that the universe was all contained within the stomach of an enormous dog; and that people weren’t nearly as big as they thought they were. |
Final curtain for that Friday, 09/Sep/2011 ’ |
We must be off our Friday, 02/Sep/2011 br> |
Was it something Friday, 26/Aug/2011
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Barcelona, Paris, or the joys of Shaldon? Friday, 19/Aug/2011
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Carnival night Friday, 12/Aug/2011 BIG thanks to those visitors who’ve paid so handsomely into our local exchequer for parking in the wrong place in Teignmouth on carnival night. |
Carrying a torch for Sidmouth folk Friday, 05/Aug/2011
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Risk assessment and the big bang Friday, 29/Jul/2011 WHEN the maroons were fired, everybody knew about it. |
Of dogs, Australians, Friday, 22/Jul/2011 br>, |
In days of old when Friday, 15/Jul/2011 > |
Didn’t they promise Friday, 08/Jul/2011
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In the wake of the wakeboarders< Friday, 01/Jul/2011 br> |
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Friday, 10/Jun/2011 IT’S well known that whenever you go walking on any stretch of our awe-inspiring South West Coast Path, you will always, at some point, meet The Man Who Saw The Dolphins. |
Let’s privatise public holidays Friday, 03/Jun/2011
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Three cheers for Friday, 20/May/2011 br> |
In the wake of the good ship Bambino Friday, 13/May/2011 In the wake of the |
Making hay while Friday, 06/May/2011
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Now we’re safely behind the wall Friday, 29/Apr/2011 YOU know, it’s not just policemen who seem to get ever younger as you get ever older; it’s environmental engineers too. |
Musical moment Friday, 22/Apr/2011 WE were queueing for the Torpoint Ferry when the young driver of a large blue panel van next to us hopped out of the driving seat to fetch something from the back of the van. |
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Dumb dealings Friday, 01/Apr/2011 br> |
For confusion, sign here please Friday, 25/Mar/2011 PEOPLE have taken to calling it ‘signage’, though nobody seems able to explain the difference between ‘signage’ and what we used to call ‘signs’. |
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Friday, 18/Mar/2011
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Friday, 11/Mar/2011 > |
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Friday, 04/Mar/2011 A FOOT ferry carries you across the half mile of water that separates the eastern Algarve town of Tavira and the offshore Ilha de Tavira, with its wonderful 12km-long beach. |
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Friday, 14/Jan/2011 LET’S talk rubbish. |
A trip on God’s Friday, 07/Jan/2011 MRS Chris is a romantic soul. |
Don’t tell Pete I have his plectrum Friday, 31/Dec/2010
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Friday, 24/Dec/2010 LIKE many people, we’re not sure that all the family are going to be able to make it home for Christmas. |
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Friday, 17/Dec/2010 So the saga of who gets the job of regenerating the Broadmeadow site has now been resolved, with Morrisons beating Tesco to it and Waitrose pulling out at the last jump. |
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Friday, 10/Dec/2010 HARD times, eh? I see from my copy of the county council’s Devon Talk magazine that Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service has recently bought two superbikes – a Ducati 1198 and an MV Agusta Brutale – and a Mitsubishi Evolution car for the vehicle fleet. |
Back to the Battle of the Bird Feeders Friday, 03/Dec/2010 AHA! I think we’ve fixed the little monsters this time. |
Fair’s fair, and it’s not ‘fayre’ Friday, 26/Nov/2010 At this time of year we are always subjected to an epidemic of events called ‘fayres’. |
Ringmore and the road to nowhere Friday, 19/Nov/2010 Try this for a winning example of
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Friday, 12/Nov/2010 Well, that’s Guy Fawkes seen off for another year – but not in Shaldon. |
What will they say about us this time? Friday, 05/Nov/2010 I see the Guardian’s property section has been soliciting readers’opinions about Teignmouth. |
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Friday, 29/Oct/2010 The seductively fine autumn weather probably tempted most people out of doors on Saturday the week before last. |
The beach hut project moves on Friday, 22/Oct/2010 The Brigantine may not have been Shaldon’s most beautiful building but, all the same, it was sad to see it demolished. |
The beach hut project moves on Friday, 22/Oct/2010 The Brigantine may not have been Shaldon’s most beautiful building but, all the same, it was sad to see it demolished. |
A testing time for good relations Friday, 15/Oct/2010 Let’s hear it for Interserve, the contractors currently building the flood defences round Shaldon. |
Let’s all have a jolly good twitter Friday, 01/Oct/2010 still failing to get to grips with all this InyerFace stuff on the internet. |
Not St Tropez – or the English Riviera Friday, 24/Sep/2010 Of course it offered a wonderful opportunity for a metropolitan newspaper reporter to score some patronising asides about uz wurzel bashers down y’er in Devonshire. |
Over the hills and not very far away Friday, 17/Sep/2010 As you speed across the Somerset Levels, heading upcountry on the M5, you can’t miss that rather fine mock-Tudor building at Webbington, set on the hill to your right. |
Of those who go right on fishing Friday, 10/Sep/2010 Would you have the brass neck to carry on casting your fishing line over the parapet of Shaldon Bridge if you knew there was such strong public feeling about injuries to boaters who have been snagged by fish hooks? |
A word about that savvy Mr de Savary Friday, 03/Sep/2010 did you see the travel piece in the Sunday Times last week about the Cary Arms at Babbacombe? It provided an interesting snippet of further evidence that Teignmouth is
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A strange tale of the bombers who didn't Friday, 27/Aug/2010 THE 70th anniversaries of the Battle of Britain and the first German bombs to fall on Teignmouth provide an apt moment to record a story related to me recently by a man of the town. |
The Amazons of Shaldon revisited Friday, 20/Aug/2010 I gather that some people were puzzled by my reference to the Amazons of Shaldon when writing about the Old Bats seine boat crew a couple of weeks ago. |
The lady, the gull and the doughnut Friday, 13/Aug/2010 More on the herring gull saga. |
Halway between a fight and a contest Friday, 06/Aug/2010 REGATTA. |
Litany of litter and loutishness Friday, 30/Jul/2010 At this time of year there is always a flurry of letters to the editor raging at the antisocial behaviour of herring gulls. |
Anniversary of a rude awakening Friday, 23/Jul/2010 IT is four o’clock on a summer’s morning. |
A lengthy spell of traffic hell Friday, 16/Jul/2010 IT’S going to be a right old do for the residents of Ringmore when flood defence work starts this autumn along the foreshore. |
Getting up to speed with knots Friday, 09/Jul/2010 How fast is one knot? I bet if you asked anyone who launches a boat or jetski from Polly Steps over the average summer weekend, few would be able to answer correctly. |
When the skipper went overboard Friday, 02/Jul/2010 A CAUTIONARY tale. |
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Friday, 25/Jun/2010 IMAGINE this: a racing seine boat with a crew of four and a cox passes under Shaldon Bridge, heading for Teignmouth Back Beach. |
A seaside town, or the last resort? Friday, 11/Jun/2010 The recent Vision for Teignmouth report has been visited upon us with the invitation to contribute our suggestions. |
Of consultants and consultation Friday, 04/Jun/2010 So we have our new Vision for Teignmouth initiative with 21 projects on the wishlist. |
It ain't here until the cuckoo sings Friday, 21/May/2010 HAVE you heard a cuckoo yet this year? I haven’t. |
Of chilly weather and wrecked boats Friday, 14/May/2010 APOLOGIES to visitors and holidaymakers for the rotten weather. |
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Friday, 07/May/2010 We always say one of the many good things about living in Devon is that we have lovely Cornwall just next door. |
Easter egg on the face of County Hall Friday, 23/Apr/2010 With the Easter holidays in prospect and a whopping great high pressure system dominating our weather, Teignmouth was anticipating its first opportunity of the year to make some capital from the holiday crowds. |
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Friday, 16/Apr/2010 A delicate matter perhaps, but something I need to bring to your attention: the rise of the Portaloo. |
All the signs of a waste of money Friday, 09/Apr/2010 These large illuminated signs that have started sprouting on roadsides around and about – how much do they cost? And what difference do they make? I see our neighbours in Kingsteignton have been particularly generously endowed recently with what Highways engineers like to call ‘street furniture’ at Ware Barton and outside the Matalan shop. |
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Friday, 02/Apr/2010 We were a bit apprehensive about spending a week in Port Isaac on the north Cornish coast. |
More than a task for King Canute Friday, 12/Mar/2010 HIGH tides last week, following that spectacular full moon on the Sunday, provided a timely reminder that construction of the flood defence scheme round Shaldon and Ringmore is happening none too soon. |
First step on the beach hut ladder Friday, 05/Mar/2010 WITH the national shortage of ‘affordable’ beach huts becoming ever more acute, it is good to see the developers of the proposed chalets in Shaldon have been taking their social responsibilities seriously. |
Getting the better of Cyril the Squirrel Friday, 26/Feb/2010 THE Wild Wood just beyond our garden is teeming with grey squirrels. |
Trial by trolley at the supermarket Friday, 19/Feb/2010 ARE we really going to get a new supermarket at Broadmeadow? There has been talk of Waitrose in the past and, more recently, we’ve been told about the possibility of a bidding battle between several supermarket giants to bag the Broadmeadow pitch. |
A cautionary tale of the oak and the ivy Friday, 12/Feb/2010 People who own holiday homes could be told to pay double council tax in future. |
Now that's what I call refreshments Friday, 05/Feb/2010 When you see ‘refreshments’ on the agenda for a meeting, you expect a cup of tea or coffee and a biscuit to appear at some point in the proceedings. |
Delighting in the music of great guns Friday, 29/Jan/2010 ANYBODY want to invest in my new get-rich-quick scheme? Well it’s not really that new, because they were doing it back in the 18th century, but it hasn’t been tried these past 150 years or more. |
Can we have our bus back, please? Friday, 22/Jan/2010 Many people in Shaldon are cross about Stagecoach’s inconsiderate decision to axe the bus service between Torquay and Exeter. |
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Friday, 15/Jan/2010 Readers with long memories will recall tales of our blackberrying exploits last autumn as we brought in nature’s harvest to make the wine. |
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Friday, 08/Jan/2010 Well, here we go. |
Pithy headlines and tangled tenses Thursday, 31/Dec/2009 As I was barrelling along the Newton Road in my one-horse open sleigh one afternoon just before Christmas, I noticed that a car going in the other direction was being driven a little erratically. |
Mince pies, music and mulled wine Friday, 18/Dec/2009 We all grumble about the commercial Christmas circus that starts far too early. |
Getting to grips with gull guano Friday, 04/Dec/2009 WE hear that the waste management site
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Can't you just feel that chill? Friday, 27/Nov/2009 Regular readers will remember that a few weeks ago we were discussing an enigmatic song entitled Teignmouth by the floppy-haired Patrick Wolf. |
The tale of a chisel and an index finger Friday, 20/Nov/2009 SORRY to report, my rashness has once again indebted me to the staff of the wonderful Minor Injuries Unit in Teignmouth. |
Lighting up the sky for Cherry Friday, 13/Nov/2009 THOSE lights drifting gently through the sky over Teignmouth on Hallowe’en – were they really UFOs? No, they were Chinese lanterns, launched by a group of family and friends gathered in Shaldon’s Riverside to say goodbye to a lovely 83-year-old lady called Cherry McClune, who died in the late summer. |
Keeping an eye on the neighbours Friday, 06/Nov/2009 IT’S encouraging that Teignmouth councillors have been glancing with some interest in the direction of Exmouth. |
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