Didcot

[Jaded]

Is it Matt, practising?

It did look a bit like him 

[Jaded]

Didcot is dull

[mattc]

Is it Matt, practising?

Do they still call you Floatslikea ?

( Didcot now less dull - I think Jaded is long gone. )

[deliquium]

Didcot is dull

But not as foul smelling as when Samor had a food canning factory next to the park - trying to inhale Players No.6 at half time around the back of the pavillion in a thick fug of tinned prune juices was not pleasant - nor was it very enticing later on in the evening - "ere deliquium, I ain't snoggin' here, it stinks, can't we to go to your coal shed or somfink?"

[Jaded]

Didcot is dusky. Also someone with an iPad got off the train.

Surely a mistake.

[deliquium]

They might live in Blewbury?

[Jaded]

Doh! Should have thought of that.

[deliquium]

Or they might have been going to sell their swag in the pub across the road? What clues where there in this person's appearance/strereotypical profile? I took my iBook to Didcot once to my dad's, to show him his house on Google Earth, but forgot that he doesn't have the internet - and even foolishly walking down the road with it, I couldn't pick up on anyone's connection - they all seemed to be happy kicking and shouting at their pitbulls whilst trying to remove weeds from the compleletely suspension dropped rusting heaps of Astras in the front gardens, and drinking/belching at the same time. Maybe the plague of screaching red kites will eventually start eating dogs and "humans"? Who knows what goes on down Kynaston Road 

[deliquium]

Didcot Town FC won the first ever Hellenic League title in 1954. Here's a pic. My dad was the shortest ever centreforward in the history of the game.



I really like the way the photographer set up the shot so precisely - with the goalposts and penalty spot, foremost in his mind 

I think that's Sainsbury's car park now?

[Bledlow]

Didcot is dusky. Also someone with an iPad got off the train.

Surely a mistake.

Changing trains, perhaps.

[mattc]

...
he doesn't have the internet - and even foolishly walking down the road with it, I couldn't pick up on anyone's connection - they all seemed to be happy kicking and shouting at their pitbulls whilst trying to remove weeds from the compleletely suspension dropped rusting heaps of Astras in the front gardens, and drinking/belching at the same time. Maybe the plague of screaching red kites will eventually start eating dogs and "humans"? Who knows what goes on down Kynaston Road 

Pah! I have to fight my neighbours for a connection after 5pm, there's so many routers around me. Perhaps I should get a pitbull ...

I spotted some interesting graffiti in Kynaston Road recently. Written 2ft high on a garden wall - so passers-by could clearly read it, but the neighbour would have to walk round (if you see what I mean):


- Dog Killer Lives Here -


!

[deliquium]

I spotted some interesting graffiti in Kynaston Road recently. Written 2ft high on a garden wall - so passers-by could clearly read it, but the neighbour would have to walk round (if you see what I mean):


- Dog Killer Lives Here -


!

You'd have to be walking down Kynaston Road! What with driving over the speed bumps and up on the verges to avoid the vans! Is Kynaston Road the most van populated road in Britain? I used to walk and cycle that on my way to skool everyday - when I didn't go via Glebe and Abbott Road.

[mattc]

Our estate doesn't allow trade vans (via the title deeds of the houses), so I guess that forces many of them over Kynaston way!

4 doors down there is a prominent trade van - owned by the LBS 

[Efrogwr]

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I spotted some interesting graffiti in Kynaston Road recently. Written 2ft high on a garden wall - so passers-by could clearly read it, but the neighbour would have to walk round (if you see what I mean):


- Dog Killer Lives Here -


!

Is that by any chance Dog Killer Kirby?

[Panoramix]

Didcot is dusky. Also someone with an iPad got off the train.

Surely a mistake.

They just had to sell the posh house to pay for the ipad. 

[pumpkin]

Apparently the parking spaces at the station aren't big enough for 4x4 cars resulting in fines for motorists who 'overlap' into the neighbouring space

[rogerzilla]

Apparently the parking spaces at the station aren't big enough for 4x4 cars resulting in fines for motorists who 'overlap' into the neighbouring space

Quite right too 

[andyoxon]

Yikes.  StB alone has 10% of annual Oxon suspensions

At Didcot’s all-boys St Birinus School, which last year had 1,229 pupils, there were 348 suspensions – about one for every four pupils. That made it the highest ratio of suspensions to pupils in the county.
...
In the last academic year, there were 3,471 county suspensions compared to 3,183 in 2009/10.

[deliquium]

I was suspended from being a prefect at St Birinus in 1970   It was of course in Berkshire then

[Fab Foodie]

Didcot is dusky. Also someone with an iPad got off the train.

Surely a mistake.

Sure it wasn't an 'Etch-a-Sketch'?   Hard to tell in the dullness of a Didcot evening ....

[rogerzilla]

Didcot is dusky. Also someone with an iPad got off the train.

Surely a mistake.

Sure it wasn't an 'Etch-a-Sketch'?   Hard to tell in the dullness of a Didcot evening ....

And equally hard to use for a Didcotian.

[deliquium]

We Didcotonians are well 'ard. OK!

[HTFB]

The correct word for people from Didcot is Wibaldestonians. Pronounced, naturally, "Wobbagens".

[Panoramix]

I am about to go through Didcot for the second time of the day.

[andyoxon]

Just thought Didcot would like to know that Abingdon may soon be going up in the world...

http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/hsabingdonnews/9376401.Bid_to_change_Abingdon___s_name/