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Bledlow

Re: Didcot
« Reply #300 on: 10 May, 2012, 03:08:01 pm »
I saw Didcot in the distance last night, while cycling up Catsbrain Hill in the twilight. It looked wet.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #301 on: 25 May, 2012, 07:35:58 pm »
On Wednesday I met someone who had grown up in Didcot. He doesn't live there now. Seems to have escaped relatively unharmed!
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rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #302 on: 25 May, 2012, 08:09:23 pm »
Quote from: Bledlow on 10 May, 2012, 03:08:01 pm
I saw Didcot in the distance last night, while cycling up Catsbrain Hill in the twilight. It looked wet.
There's really a hill called Catsbrain?  That rivals Whipass Hill (Beaconsfield) for silliness.
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Frere

Re: Didcot
« Reply #303 on: 25 May, 2012, 08:12:10 pm »
There is another Catbrain Hill, just by Cribbs Causeway :)

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rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #304 on: 25 May, 2012, 08:43:38 pm »
Our village has Callas Hill, invariably misspelt by iddu as "Callous Hill" due to its prodigious gradient just before the crossroads.
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Bledlow

Re: Didcot
« Reply #305 on: 25 May, 2012, 09:09:29 pm »
Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 May, 2012, 08:09:23 pm
Quote from: Bledlow on 10 May, 2012, 03:08:01 pm
I saw Didcot in the distance last night, while cycling up Catsbrain Hill in the twilight. It looked wet.
There's really a hill called Catsbrain?  That rivals Whipass Hill (Beaconsfield) for silliness.
Woodcote, S. Oxfordshire.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?
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JonBuoy

Re: Didcot
« Reply #306 on: 25 May, 2012, 11:19:42 pm »
I cycle up Catsick Hill on my commute home everyday.
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #307 on: 25 May, 2012, 11:29:32 pm »
Well, they dig cats brains up near Painswick...
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mattc

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #308 on: 27 May, 2012, 04:09:52 pm »
Quote from: Bledlow on 25 May, 2012, 09:09:29 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 May, 2012, 08:09:23 pm
Quote from: Bledlow on 10 May, 2012, 03:08:01 pm
I saw Didcot in the distance last night, while cycling up Catsbrain Hill in the twilight. It looked wet.
There's really a hill called Catsbrain?  That rivals Whipass Hill (Beaconsfield) for silliness.
Woodcote, S. Oxfordshire.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?
Are you sure that's the name of the road? It appears to bisect "Catsbrain Hill" and "Mile End Hill", and I don't recall any signs for either when cycling up there. Of course I'm just reading the map - your local knowledge will trump that.

(Nevertheless, it's a great name. And well done for looking behind you on a climb like that ;) )
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Bledlow

Re: Didcot
« Reply #309 on: 27 May, 2012, 11:19:36 pm »
I didn't say it was the name of the road (& I don't think it is), but I've often heard the hill that the road runs down (or) up called by that name, for example when it's been used for freewheeling competitions.

As for looking behind - well, I've been down it often enough to know it's worth looking over my shoulder on the way up. Fine views.
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Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #310 on: 29 May, 2012, 07:22:01 am »
Didcot is gloriously sunny. Which is odd.

I discovered that iPhone predictive text changes didcot to discard. Someone in Cupertino reads this thread.
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #311 on: 29 May, 2012, 07:25:14 am »
We spent a glorious Saturday morning in Didcot, at the Railway Museum.

It wasn't my choice - Julian was the anorak - but thr weather was glorious, and when Jack and I had enough we were able to sit and have a lovely cuppa (bowl of water in his case) whilst the others carried on 'oohing' and 'aahing' over lumps of metal.
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Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #312 on: 29 May, 2012, 06:39:35 pm »
Didcot is gloriously sunny.

That's amazing, I mean how many times would you expect Didcot to be sunny twice in one day?
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mattc

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #313 on: 30 May, 2012, 09:08:22 am »
Quote from: Bledlow on 27 May, 2012, 11:19:36 pm
I didn't say it was the name of the road (& I don't think it is), but I've often heard the hill that the road runs down (or) up called by that name, for example when it's been used for freewheeling competitions.
Sorry, I didn't phrase that very well!
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As for looking behind - well, I've been down it often enough to know it's worth looking over my shoulder on the way up. Fine views.
Clearly a man of taste! http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/503368
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Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #314 on: 18 July, 2012, 03:58:45 pm »
Dull, grey and wet today. So wet that the platorms have dribbling rivulets across the concrete, running hurridley to the beconing drain gullies.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #315 on: 18 July, 2012, 06:33:22 pm »
Even rainwater doesn't want to be seen hanging around in Didcot.
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Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #316 on: 19 July, 2012, 07:52:29 pm »
Didcot has banners up saying it is now 2012.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #317 on: 19 July, 2012, 07:58:33 pm »
You must have missed the drinking and "Auld Lang Syne" last night.
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Didcot
« Reply #318 on: 19 July, 2012, 08:28:59 pm »
Quote from: Jaded on 19 July, 2012, 07:52:29 pm
Didcot has banners up saying it is now 2012.
Once a day, it is.
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Dibdib

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #319 on: 19 July, 2012, 10:18:09 pm »
I may be popping my Didcot town centre* cherry this weekend, if my legs will carry me that far from Swindon without failing. I hope the Didcotonians of this parish will ensure clement weather.

* Sadly not my overall Didcot virginity, which was taken last year with a mooch around the power station. Which was more interesting than I'd expected.
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Fab Foodie

Re: Didcot
« Reply #320 on: 19 July, 2012, 10:52:22 pm »
Quote from: Dibdib on 19 July, 2012, 10:18:09 pm
I may be popping my Didcot town centre* cherry this weekend, if my legs will carry me that far from Swindon without failing. I hope the Didcotonians of this parish will ensure clement weather.

* Sadly not my overall Didcot virginity, which was taken last year with a mooch around the power station. Which was more interesting than I'd expected.
Unlike the rest of the town (except the train museum) ....
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mattc

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #321 on: 20 July, 2012, 08:09:29 am »
Quote from: Jaded on 19 July, 2012, 07:52:29 pm
Didcot has banners up saying it is now 2012.
That's a helpful service provided for travellers from further west.
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #322 on: 20 July, 2012, 11:22:35 am »
Quote from: mattc on 20 July, 2012, 08:09:29 am
Quote from: Jaded on 19 July, 2012, 07:52:29 pm
Didcot has banners up saying it is now 2012.
That's a helpful service provided for travellers from further west.

You are right, with all these horses and tea rooms, the Cotswolds are so 1975.
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #323 on: 23 July, 2012, 05:49:47 pm »
David gave me a shiny Apple for my birthday; I see they pre-installed Didcot in it...
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rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #324 on: 23 July, 2012, 06:23:40 pm »
I shall be riding through Didcot at the weekend, since it is pretty much unavoidable given where I'm going.
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