Living in Dungeness

[UndercoverElephant]

I'm planning on moving to Hastings, and was doing some online research about the local area, and came across this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... lear-plant

It's cheap, it's quiet and, say the residents of Dungeness, blissfully safe

It is one of the strangest places in the UK to live. Certainly nothing else like it in the southeast.

[emordnilap]

That family certainly seem to be living the good life.

[UndercoverElephant]

From the satellite photo, it looks like a moonscape. Yet there are houses dotted around in the "desert", and it's not a desert:

http://www.a-trip.com/tracks/view/37432

[plotter]

Hello, I have been lucky enough to stay in the bird observatory for 2 weeks a couple of times - a unique place that doesn't feel like it's part of the U.K. Very interesting botanically, don't know about fungally !
Well worth a visit if you are near there.

[UndercoverElephant]

Hello, I have been lucky enough to stay in the bird observatory for 2 weeks a couple of times - a unique place that doesn't feel like it's part of the U.K. Very interesting botanically, don't know about fungally !
Well worth a visit if you are near there.

Hi plotter and welcome to Powerswitch.

If it's botanically interesting then it is probably mycologically interesting. Although I was actually surprised when I found that page of how many common woodland species were present, given the apparent lack of woodland (or vegetation of any kind!) around there (from the satellite photo.) I've never been there, but I will doubtless get round to it later this year.

UE

[Aurora]

I'm planning on moving to Hastings, and was doing some online research about the local area, and came across this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... lear-plant

Not sure which would be worse. Living next to a nuclear power station,



or 'Waynetta' and her chums.



Delightful.

[RenewableCandy]

They sound a bit like a WWII community. Which I suppose, in a way, they are.

[UndercoverElephant]

I'm planning on moving to Hastings, and was doing some online research about the local area, and came across this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... lear-plant

Not sure which would be worse. Living next to a nuclear power station,



or 'Waynetta' and her chums.



Delightful.

I'm not planning on moving to Dungeness!

ETA: Although I can see the attraction. I wouldn't move there because it is no use for growing vegetables (apart from sea kale!) I'm not sure the nuclear power station would bother me. As for "Waynetta", these are people who chose to leave council estates because they felt they were unsafe, so perhaps looks can be misleading.

[Little John]

Yep.

Kindness and honour are two qualities that trump everything else in my book. The other things are good, but they come third. At least on a personal level.

Not that I'm suggesting that these people are any of the above, just that in my experience their appearance gives no indication either way.

[Aurora]

Kindness and honour?

[nexus]

Yep.

Kindness and honour are two qualities that trump everything else in my book. The other things are good, but they come third. At least on a personal level.

Not that I'm suggesting that these people are any of the above, just that in my experience their appearance gives no indication either way.

+1 nicely put Steve (and psychology backs this up, for most personality traits you can't tell by looking what someone is like).

[RenewableCandy]

"Oh Lordy it's the Fat Slags!" Good grief that takes me back!!

Talking of which, don't forget that Asparagus grows well by the seaside.

[kenneal - lagger]

Dungeness might be safe in many ways but if a very strong s'wester was forecast on a spring tide I would find somewhere else to sleep for the night. And if we ever get hurricanes in the Channel I wouldn't stay there at all.

A lot of it goes under water with 1m rise in sea level, most is under at 2m and the power station and Lyde airport are the only things to be seen at 3m rise.

[Oxenstierna]

I once visited Dungeness (to see the place where Derek Jarman had lived) and it is indeed a very strange place, although strangely beautiful.

http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/derek ... _dungeness

With only a few years to live, the proximity of the nuclear power station obviously didn't bother Jarman. He bought his home in the 1980s for a price that we would all envy today.

[UndercoverElephant]

I once visited Dungeness (to see the place where Derek Jarman had lived) and it is indeed a very strange place, although strangely beautiful.

http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/derek ... _dungeness

With only a few years to live, the proximity of the nuclear power station obviously didn't bother Jarman. He bought his home in the 1980s for a price that we would all envy today.

Sea Kale growing in a garden in its natural habitat!!!