Day out in Danger Nose

indykid: 19th Apr 2006 - 16:06 GMT

"i want to live in a hut and write, and have a stove heater, and at the end of the day go the 100 yards to the pub for a well deserved guinness and a fish and chips, and have to battle the wind to get there"

Don't know if your aware of the prices these huts sell for. They've been know to go for hundreds of thousands of pounds, some don't even have toilets! Not to mention you'd be living in the back yard of a nucleur power station. Not that I''d be any safer 10 miles away in Ashford!

elaine: 19th Apr 2006 - 17:20 GMT

i know, i know. bloody islington on sea, innit? unfortunately for me it's not just *my* discovery. the old lighthouse was for sale last year, i was nearly sick with jealousy.

indykid: 19th Apr 2006 - 20:03 GMT

Come to think of it, when you think of Chenobyl, London would probably be wasted by Dungeness exploding, your no safer either!

elaine: 19th Apr 2006 - 20:13 GMT

at least we can't hear that weird constant whine from the power station from here. and what about that racket the new lighthouse makes?

Jamie: 23rd Apr 2006 - 13:15 GMT

elaine i lurve the aspect of these photos. it suits the subject matter perfectly. i want to go to dungeness.

Jamie: 23rd Apr 2006 - 13:20 GMT

also: i'd like to live in a lighthouse. far from civilaisation. with an dsl connection of course. i read (or maybe i saw something on the discovery channel) about an old lighthouse out at sea. i think it was the first structure ever to be built on stilts out at sea. It was staffed by two men for periods of 3 months or so and this one time, one of the blokes died, or maybe the other guy killed him and this was back before they had any way of communication. before the telegraph even. The other guy went slowly mad from the solitude, and ever since then lighthouses have to be manned by a team of three, incase something happens to one of them. of course modern lighthouses are all computery-controlled affairs these days so it's irrelevant. I'd like to live in a windmill though... umm lighthouse.

elaine: 23rd Apr 2006 - 16:05 GMT

ta, jamie, i did it partly to mimic the original panoramic photos i took in my first dungeness posting, and partly to solve the problem of a weird smudge i get on my lens which only shows up in certain lighting conditions. needs must when the devil drives. if my other camera was digital i would still take panoramic shots though, i rarely moved it off that setting, i love that ratio.

jan : 25th September 2006: 25th Sep 2006 - 21:37 GMT

Having just got back from my usual 2 weeks in Dungeness living in one of those 'Railway Carriages' as you put it.........I fell as I always do......2 weeks is not enough............Life is so simple there, peaceful and invigorating........and as for that 'Foghorn' went for 2 days solid and when it ended didn't even notice it......Roll on next year !!!!