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andyoxon

Re: Didcot
« Reply #450 on: 01 February, 2013, 10:00:20 am »
Quote from: Fab Foodie on 01 February, 2013, 09:58:10 am
It was dark and mildly moist as I pushed-on alone into the bustery headwind, past cooling towers and Daily Mail building.
Chavs yelled abuse from cars and street corners.
The normality that is Didcot

Almost poetic...  ;)
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Andrij

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #451 on: 01 February, 2013, 10:08:27 am »
Quote from: Jaded on 01 February, 2013, 07:56:49 am
Didcot.

It's still here.


As I said, a single Raptor isn't sufficient for the job.
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Fab Foodie

Re: Didcot
« Reply #452 on: 01 February, 2013, 10:28:00 am »
Quote from: andyoxon on 01 February, 2013, 10:00:20 am
Quote from: Fab Foodie on 01 February, 2013, 09:58:10 am
It was dark and mildly moist as I pushed-on alone into the bustery headwind, past cooling towers and Daily Mail building.
Chavs yelled abuse from cars and street corners.
The normality that is Didcot

Almost poetic...  ;)
Didcot has that effect!
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slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #453 on: 01 February, 2013, 06:57:22 pm »
Is God Wanted in Didcot?

I'm sure everyone wants to know. Are there posters up? What's the reward?

The question was posed and polled in the 1969 edition of St Birinus' Secondary Moderne (the French teacher was HOT, I know cos I sat at the desk in front of hers and kept dropping pencils) skool mag



R. Hudlam was a first year twerp (weren't we all once?)
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Bledlow

Re: Didcot
« Reply #454 on: 01 February, 2013, 07:20:08 pm »
Quote from: Fab Foodie on 01 February, 2013, 09:58:10 am
It was dark and mildly moist as I pushed-on
Only mildly?
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Fab Foodie

Re: Didcot
« Reply #455 on: 01 February, 2013, 08:38:28 pm »
Quote from: Bledlow on 01 February, 2013, 07:20:08 pm
Quote from: Fab Foodie on 01 February, 2013, 09:58:10 am
It was dark and mildly moist as I pushed-on
Only mildly?
Hard to imagine ... but true.
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slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #456 on: 16 February, 2013, 04:33:15 pm »
Powering down Didcot - a brick at a time

TRUE

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Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #457 on: 26 February, 2013, 01:46:18 pm »
It is exceptionally dull in Swindon.

I am filled with gloomy anticipation that Didcot will be worse.
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mattc

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #458 on: 26 February, 2013, 04:44:50 pm »
(i ahven't been to Swindon for a while, but it is VERY dull in Didcot today!)

I happened to notice recently that this thread is one of the few to produce TWO Post-of-the-Days.

I'll let the tourist board know!
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Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #459 on: 28 February, 2013, 07:20:44 am »
Don't tell them about today then.

Grey, just grey.
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andyoxon

Re: Didcot
« Reply #460 on: 28 February, 2013, 07:18:25 pm »
Parked in Didcot and went to London, last weekend.  That is all.
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slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #461 on: 04 March, 2013, 06:22:09 pm »
My sister has just telephoned during her visit back to our childhood home, to say Didcot is humming again. Not from the long gone Samor Foods canning factory chimney a few blocks away to the west - maybe there's a factory farm chicken gizzards lorry stuck under Marsh Bridge - again?
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mattc

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #462 on: 04 March, 2013, 06:25:03 pm »
I noticed an increased odour riding home yesterday lunchtime.

Given that it was stronger OUT IN THE FIELDS than back IN TOWN, I feel safe to assume it was agricultural in origin.

Maybe farms never stink in other parts of the country, who knows ...    ;)
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slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #463 on: 04 March, 2013, 06:32:42 pm »
Quote from: mattc on 04 March, 2013, 06:25:03 pm
I noticed an increased odour riding home yesterday lunchtime.

Given that it was stronger OUT IN THE FIELDS than back IN TOWN, I feel safe to assume it was agricultural in origin.

Maybe farms never stink in other parts of the country, who knows ...    ;)

The Hagbournes used to hide animal smells behind their cover of arable fields. There were loadsa pig farms approaching the downs. Plus Harwell had discreet nuclear bunkers - that doesn't pong though?

My favourite Didcot smell was the ceramic tiled subway under the railway station platforms (well pre Parkway), dripping water and Jeyes fluid. My least fave smell was Samor Foods canning factory on Park Road. Trying to play football in the park whilst wretching from boiled prunes odour was too much for a child to score any goals. Ralph always came up (trumps) - then get a bollocking from Buffy Balcombe (our "manager" from Kynaston Road)
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mattc

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #464 on: 04 March, 2013, 07:07:31 pm »
I've been rather enjoying your reminiscences so far, but I'm beginning to smell a rat:
Quote from: slope on 04 March, 2013, 06:32:42 pm
a bollocking from Buffy Balcombe
I hope I'm not proved right :(
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slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #465 on: 04 March, 2013, 07:20:16 pm »
Quote from: mattc on 04 March, 2013, 07:07:31 pm
I've been rather enjoying your reminiscences so far, but I'm beginning to smell a rat:
Quote from: slope on 04 March, 2013, 06:32:42 pm
a bollocking from Buffy Balcombe
I hope I'm not proved right :(

?

Buffy Balcombe was the most amazing Didcot Boys football manager (1960's) - and a real stella bloke - a top good 'un - a rare breed.

Not sure what you may be alluding to mattc?

What rat do you perceive to smell?

Didcot was my childhood - I had great times a plenty there
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rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #466 on: 04 March, 2013, 09:31:10 pm »
Quote from: mattc on 04 March, 2013, 06:25:03 pm
I noticed an increased odour riding home yesterday lunchtime.

Given that it was stronger OUT IN THE FIELDS than back IN TOWN, I feel safe to assume it was agricultural in origin.

Maybe farms never stink in other parts of the country, who knows ...    ;)
As is normal between Mar-Jun, our village smells of shit.  There is a mountain of it in Liddington.
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Efrogwr

Re: Didcot
« Reply #467 on: 04 March, 2013, 10:10:54 pm »
It's an international problem; Caernarfon often smells of shit and, sometimes, of piss.

I never noticed any abnormally smelly smells when I lived in Didcot.
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slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #468 on: 06 March, 2013, 11:06:21 am »
Quote from: Efrogwr on 04 March, 2013, 10:10:54 pm
I never noticed any abnormally smelly smells when I lived in Didcot.

One man's abnormal . . . . .

Caernarfon IS weird compared to Didcot  ;D
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Efrogwr

Re: Didcot
« Reply #469 on: 06 March, 2013, 05:19:51 pm »
Quote from: slope on 06 March, 2013, 11:06:21 am
Quote from: Efrogwr on 04 March, 2013, 10:10:54 pm
I never noticed any abnormally smelly smells when I lived in Didcot.

One man's abnormal . . . . .

Caernarfon IS weird compared to Didcot  ;D

You have a point! It has its moments...

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PaulF

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #470 on: 07 March, 2013, 07:47:50 am »
Quote from: Efrogwr on 04 March, 2013, 10:10:54 pm
It's an international problem; Caernarfon often smells of shit and, sometimes, of piss.

I never noticed any abnormally smelly smells when I lived in Didcot.

Well it was especially pungent this morning!
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rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #471 on: 15 March, 2013, 07:51:12 pm »
http://www.didcot.com/forum/

This is rather fun.  As well as the mysterious smell on the ring road reported by "Dazza", there's a thread on Morons of Didcot and another one on a roundabout being converted to a hamburger.  Really.
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Efrogwr

Re: Didcot
« Reply #472 on: 15 March, 2013, 08:27:59 pm »
Why did I leave?
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Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #473 on: 15 March, 2013, 11:41:24 pm »
"Smell around the Ring Road"

It sounds like one of MattC's Audaxes.
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slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #474 on: 16 March, 2013, 09:37:17 am »
Quote from: Efrogwr on 15 March, 2013, 08:27:59 pm
Why did I leave?

Like most of us - you HAD too?
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