Author Topic: Didcot (Read 167249 times)

ian · « **Reply #825 on:** 08 September, 2017, 08:15:32 pm »

I just went through Didcot. I didn't notice. That's twice today I've failed to notice Didcot. I did notice Chippenham though.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #826 on:** 08 September, 2017, 08:50:55 pm »

Whereas I did notice Didcot a couple of weeks ago as I rode toward Wantage over the Downs, precisely because half its Wonder of the World is still there.

As for Cholsey, I've not been able to find out whether it's "kolsey" or "tcholsey" IYSWIM.

andyoxon · « **Reply #827 on:** 08 September, 2017, 11:01:57 pm »

The other day I cycled from Abingdon and actually had occasion to see Didcot in a good light...

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slope · « **Reply #828 on:** 30 September, 2017, 06:14:18 pm »

1957? 27 Lynmouth Road, newly built. Must have been hot - most of the neighbours' galvanised Crittal windows are open? Asbestos drainpipe. Unable to afford a lawnmower.

Perhaps I was the first person to figure out whether black socks and white shoes were a goer on a bike?

Jaded · « **Reply #829 on:** 01 October, 2017, 02:26:47 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 08 September, 2017, 08:50:55 pm

Whereas I did notice Didcot a couple of weeks ago as I rode toward Wantage over the Downs, precisely because half its Wonder of the World is still there.

As for Cholsey, I've not been able to find out whether it's "kolsey" or "tcholsey" IYSWIM.

It's 'Cholsey'.

Torslanda · « **Reply #830 on:** 01 October, 2017, 07:50:32 am »

Well, thanks.

That's really cleared that up . . .

PaulF · « **Reply #831 on:** 01 October, 2017, 08:54:12 am »

The station announcer at Didcot pronounces it Cholsey.

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DuncanM · « **Reply #832 on:** 02 October, 2017, 02:14:42 pm »

I work on the edge of Didcot, so quite a few of my colleagues live there. I've still not seen any of i beyond the train station though!

Jaded · « **Reply #833 on:** 17 October, 2017, 12:29:42 pm »

It as orange yesterday, which was a nice change.

Today, not so much.

Bledlow · « **Reply #834 on:** 17 October, 2017, 04:44:02 pm »

Quote from: slope on 30 September, 2017, 06:14:18 pm

1957? 27 Lynmouth Road, newly built. Must have been hot - most of the neighbours' galvanised Crittal windows are open? Asbestos drainpipe. Unable to afford a lawnmower.

Perhaps I was the first person to figure out whether black socks and white shoes were a goer on a bike?

The house I was born in had windows just like that.

Insulating properties on a cold winter morning? I swear they actively moved heat out of the house. I remember pretty patterns in the ice on the inside.

ian · « **Reply #835 on:** 24 November, 2017, 08:19:17 pm »

A colleague of mine tried to go to Didcot and failed. He couldn't figure out how to the get off the train (because he's American and sensibly didn't anticipate you had to lean outside to find the handle). Then he tried to get a train back from Paddington but it didn't stop at Didcot. So he went to Swindon instead.

I can't imagine he'll be back any time soon.

I was in Didcot earlier. It was sunny.

Jaded · « **Reply #836 on:** 30 November, 2017, 02:11:40 pm »

Today Didcot is sunny with trainspotter.

madcow · « **Reply #837 on:** 08 December, 2017, 07:13:43 pm »

Is on Channel 4 news now.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #838 on:** 08 December, 2017, 08:54:31 pm »

We opened our refurbished branch this week, according to the internal Pravda.

mattc · « **Reply #839 on:** 09 December, 2017, 03:32:46 pm »

Quote from: madcow on 08 December, 2017, 07:13:43 pm

Is on Channel 4 news now.

Not again

Was this because of rogerzilla's new shop, or has another building collapsed?

Meanwhile, Radio4's latest Marcus Brigstocke vehicle (co-starring Kerry Godliman) is a lot better than the premise*. But I didn't realise until this week that it's set in Didcot. The final (rather harrowing) episode features a fapping incident at the library

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09h6x6p

*Michael and Maxine Wilson and their daughters, Lola and Cat have resolved to live a more ethical life. Millions of people try every day to make 'good' choices and do the 'right thing'. It's hard. Most of us live with hypocrisy and failure all the time but keep on trying. The Wilsons are trying about 20% harder and learning to live with about 19% more failure.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #840 on:** 09 December, 2017, 03:45:41 pm »

Is there anything fapworthy in Didcot library? Maybe there's an entire Dewey decimal allocation for literary grumble, eschewed by libraries elsewhere.

Jaded · « **Reply #841 on:** 09 December, 2017, 04:37:21 pm »

There MUST be trainspotting books in Didcot Library.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #842 on:** 09 December, 2017, 05:53:46 pm »

(little moment)

slope · « **Reply #843 on:** 09 December, 2017, 06:16:59 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 09 December, 2017, 04:37:21 pm

There MUST be trainspotting books in Didcot Library.

Such a shame I failed to donate my very neatly handwritten with always sharp HB (sharpener and rubber always in school satchel) copious logs (mostly DMU numbers as steam was just about over and my dad was no longer a 'fireman' on the footlplate) to the library, before I left/fled Didcot/home in 1971?

Much like (but slightly different) this:

Traveled daily on these from Didcot to Art Skool in Maidenhead

madcow · « **Reply #844 on:** 09 December, 2017, 06:24:36 pm »

Ref. C4 news.Apparently,Didcot is a microencapsultion of Middle England ,so it was a natural destination for reporters seeking a vox-pop on the Brexit deal or no deal.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #845 on:** 09 December, 2017, 07:03:49 pm »

We really are doomed if we're living on Didcot Island.

mattc · « **Reply #846 on:** 11 December, 2017, 11:24:51 pm »

Merry Christmas everyone, from all of us at Winter Wonderland Towers!

Jaded · « **Reply #847 on:** 12 December, 2017, 12:13:29 am »

Now that is proper Didcot, in its true colours.

Torslanda · « **Reply #848 on:** 19 December, 2017, 09:31:29 am »

Just watching a rerun of a Time Team and they're getting all excited about Roman stuff in a trench nr Didcot, carbon dating stuff to last Tuesday and so on.

The looming question which no one is answering is why the Romans or anyone else would build a villa on a hillside with a view of the bloody power station . . .

WHAT?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #849 on:** 19 December, 2017, 02:27:16 pm »

Don't be silly. They wanted the good rail connections to Oxford, Bristol and Londinium.

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