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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26536

    #91
    Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
    ....who said there would be any sleeping....
    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..."

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    • Anna

      #92
      Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
      ....who said there would be any sleeping....
      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

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      • eighthobstruction
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 6439

        #93
        I wouldn't want to embarass FoR3....or get any resignations....

        ....no it's the dogs that sleep in a tent.....
        bong ching

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26536

          #94
          Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
          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..."

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #95
            Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
            ....who said there would be any sleeping....
            Ah! Your dog snores, does he?
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • eighthobstruction
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 6439

              #96
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post


              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.....)
              bong ching

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              • Anna

                #97
                Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                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)

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                • ahinton
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 16122

                  #98
                  Originally posted by Anna View Post
                  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!

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                  • teamsaint
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25209

                    #99
                    Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                    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 am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • teamsaint
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 25209

                      Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                      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 am not a number, I am a free man.

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                      • eighthobstruction
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 6439

                        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                        I wonder how the dogs are feeling about it all?!

                        Have a brilliant break, 8O !
                        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 team'....
                        bong ching

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Have a lovely holiday, 8ob.
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • eighthobstruction
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 6439

                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            Have a lovely holiday, 8ob.
                            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....

                            EDIT : Son has come to help me I'm off....1132hrs
                            Last edited by eighthobstruction; 18-08-13, 10:32.
                            bong ching

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                            • amateur51

                              Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                              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

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                              • Anna

                                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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