The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
Yes. I have returned triumphantly from my awesome holiday in Dartmouth. Some may sneer at my choice of a UK holiday, particularly one in Devon, but there are many good reasons to visit Darty, not least of which is the free accommodation in my Ma's little 'place in the country'.
Here's a few more:
I also visited the town of my birth whilst I was in the area. I'll post my photos and thoughts on it later for your entertainment. I have to make dinner now.
Not mine, I'm afraid. I stole them off the internets.
I finally got round to digging out my camera. Here are some of the handful we took down there:
A view across the River Dart. That's actually Kingswear you can see there. My gran used to own an apartment in a building at the top of the hill. Awesome view! You can jut see the dodgy lower ferry there - basically a floating...er... float, with a tug pulling it round.
A view up the Dart toward the castle and the mouth of the river.
Dartmouth Castle. Henry VIII had it built. It was mostly a place to put his cannon in case the Frenchies or the Dirty Spaniards tried to invade him up the Dart. There's another, smaller castle on the opposite bank. Somwhere underwater between the two castles there's a chain that they could pull tight if unwanted visitors headed up-river. It went taught just under water level and ripped the ship's hull to bits! Clever chaps, those Tudors.
Dartmouth in the background taken from a boat on it's way back from the castle. Those are not Catfish's knees on the right.
We went to Paignton, my birth town and took a few photos. It was pretty bleak:
Makes you wanna break out the cheap cider!
Photo developing, betting, slot machines... what more do you need?
Welcome to the beach!
This donkey took the average age of the population down to about 75. Catfish is the one in glasses.
Prime beach front property. The skip costs extra.
Note the Prize Bingo! £1 to enter! We didn't.
We also drove up the road that I used to live on. I think I left when I was about 4, so I had no memory of it. It's a road. WIth some drab looking houses on it. Hmph.
We headed north to Torquay on the worst car trip I've ever experienced. Honestly, it took almost 2 hours to cover about 10 miles. First one of the Dartmouth ferries was out which meant we had to wait in a looooong queue for about 40 minutes. Then we immediately got stuck behind a bin lorry in the narrow one way streets of Kingswear on the other side of the river. And then we got stuck behind a series of tractors and slow moving vehicles all the way to Torquay. It was gloriously sunny when we set off and raining when we arrived. Fortunately our destination was actually a set of caves under the town, so rain wasn't an issue. Here's me. In a cave.
I was beginning to wonder if there'd be any babe pics in this thread......Ben
Babe pics?? I was a bit dissappointed that JDK posted that one of me with the donkey... my belly was full of cream tea, I'm frowning and look a bit pigeon toed. It's not very flattering at all ... but I did fit in with most of the locals
-- Edited by Catfish on Tuesday 30th of June 2009 04:52:40 PM
...Ben
