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Awaiting Anna's next post with keen anticipation....
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Yes, I see your point. Sharing sleeping accommodation with dogs does not a good nights sleep make. They're always getting up, turning in a circle three times before they settle, then they start scratching their fleas, snoring, twitching when they're dreaming with claws scrabbling the floor ..... I'd prefer a little tent outside the van I think
I wouldn't want to embarass FoR3....or get any resignations....
....no it's the dogs that sleep in a tent.....
No worries....
I've just re-read and had missed that it's this thread of teamster's that's prompted your hol
I for one am looking forward to some great traveller's tales...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
I've just re-read and had missed that it's this thread of teamster's that's prompted your hol
I for one am looking forward to some great traveller's tales...
Yes , being a Devon and Somerset boy I am used to the best beaches (SHUTUP Cornwall)....and the thread really did stir emotions in me....also I really am a recluse who rarely goes further 2 miles away from home these days (lucky I live where I do, or maybe because.....)
Yes , being a Devon and Somerset boy I am used to the best beaches (SHUTUP Cornwall)....and the thread really did stir emotions in me.....
Only beaches I know in Somerset are Dunster and Minehead, always associate Somerset with The Levels. North Devon rather than South I presume you mean? What beaches stand out there?
(One of my great-grandfathers came from small village (Monkleigh), nearest town Bideford, I think he was the first of his family for generations ever to leave the the place but I don't know the N. Devon coast apart from Ilfracombe)
Yes, I see your point. Sharing sleeping accommodation with dogs does not a good nights sleep make. They're always getting up, turning in a circle three times before they settle, then they start scratching their fleas, snoring, twitching when they're dreaming with claws scrabbling the floor ..... I'd prefer a little tent outside the van I think
I'm afraid that I wouldn't want to share any accommodation of any kind with any sort of dog, let alone dogs plural; dogs are, to me farm animals and sometimes very valuable and efficient ones, but that's it!
I'm afraid that I wouldn't want to share any accommodation of any kind with any sort of dog, let alone dogs plural; dogs are, to me farm animals and sometimes very valuable and efficient ones, but that's it!
I wonder how the dogs are feeling about it all?!
Have a brilliant break, 8O !
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I'm afraid that I wouldn't want to share any accommodation of any kind with any sort of dog, let alone dogs plural; dogs are, to me farm animals and sometimes very valuable and efficient ones, but that's it!
I wonder how the dogs are feeling about it all?!
Have a brilliant break, 8O !
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
IF i reply to that post....after dotting i's etc, I Might still be here Weds....I might say something like ....if it were the only accomodation for 50 miles was a kennel with a dog in it and it was -20 and snowing (actually it does not snow at -20) 'wouldn't' you want to share it....and that might be the start of a pointless etc etc blaa blaa....lasting sometime possibly ....
Thanks all....with all the getting the van ready etc etc , I'm very very tired (woke up feeling like I have paving slabs arranged on my body)....so wondering if I will be safe driving the van....but I WILL get away, but it may be tomorrow....
Thanks all....with all the getting the van ready etc etc , I'm very very tired (woke up feeling like I have paving slabs arranged on my body)....so wondering if I will be safe driving the van....but I WILL get away, but it may be tomorrow....
Take your time, eighth it's not a race - weather next week seems to be perking up
Yesterday's travel section in The Guardian was all about UK beaches. Unfortunately I cannot quote from it as it's outside bagged up for recycling .... however, 8ob having said he's a Somerset lad, I find the piece by Margaret Drabble about Porlock Weir beach is online (I only know Porlock in connection with the mysterious gentleman making a possibly long poem shorter) Also, I think you can find links to the other articles. There was a section of best seaside fish and chips and - no surprise - the Anstruther Fish Bar (which someone on this very forum has promised me a fish supper if I venture North of the Border) is up there amongst the best! That is also one of the joys of beaches, fish and chips never taste so delicious as when they are consumed by the seashore.
On Somerset's picturesque coast, Porlock Weir has a shingle beach, views across to Wales and great slow food. It's not only captivated Margaret Drabble but many literary figures before her
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