to think that some of the people on the news are abit "sad"

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some woman was just interviewed about the weston supermare pier fire. she said she was "heart broken"
ffs ok so maybe it is sad to see a lovely building in flames but heartbroken
she was in tears as well.

I sobbed when our old apple tree was cut down

but I am a soppy ole cow at the best of times - I can cry at frigging adverts!

I was sad to see it go I must admit. Ive some lovely memories of Weston as a kid, with my kids, with ds's dad when we were young and stupid carefree.

Brighton pier I wouldnt have cared about at all so its maybe a personal thing!

I went to the hairdressers today. I spent two hours there devouring all the reading material and I have come to the conclusion that all Daily Mail readers are SHORT. I reached this conclusion after having read two days' worth of the awful rag paper, which included extensive coverage of a hospital in Siberia which does lengthening operations. Apparently they use a technique involving breaking your bones and stretching them so that new bone growth happens. It costs a fortune but you can gain up to 12 inches in a year. Always assuming you have a year to spend in Siberia.

back to Concorde, if I may, it was a beautiful plane and anyone not moved by her is soulless - if I want to analyse it apart from the mechanical beauty of the thing,she used to fly over my house at the exact same time every evening at about 6 or thereabouts, I recognised the familiar sound and looked up - was a nice thing -like seeing a friend. I am not a deluded saddo and have a very full and interesting life

I hate Weston pier. Don't know why really. Actually I hate Weston for various reasons - mainly 'cos MIL lives there and I can't hate her because there's nothing actually offensive about her so I satify myself with hating the town instead. Have never been on the pier - I don't like amusement arcades probably because I am a snob. And I thought it looked beautiful all lit and up and flaming . And yes, the crying woman on the news needed to get a grip!

Now Concorde or a tree - yep that would move me. Weston pier..no.

mas - i too used to "race" concorde home from work

ah tutter - judging by your post on the Kew Gardens thread I guess you lived nearby !
I think of Weston being where old people live in homes because Alan Bennett in his diaries was often in Weston 'to visit mam', so I think of him (love Alan Bennett in similar way to Concorde..a special place in my heart)

yes lived in kew for 5 years til december 06

miss many things about it but not the aircraft noise, although it didn't bother me pre-dc

where are you?

Horrible place. Like Burnham and Clevedon. Somerset has a weird sort of coast. Beautiful in a bleak and wild way. Great for winter walks. But stick kiss-me-quick seaside paraphenalia all over it and it just looks tacky. I prefer Watchet - a fishing harbour and a few old-fashioned shops and no pretensions to be anything fancy. And they have fossils.

Speaking to a friend who's from Weston after this happened, and she said half the town is owned by Greek Cypriots and half by Chinese, in some kind of gang/maffia type set up. She reckons the pier going up could have something to do with rivalry between the two groups.

But I didn't say that , just telling you what she said.

am out in Hants. now but near enough to drive up to see friends and go to Kew..don't miss the muck from the planes...miss being able to go to nice restaurants without going in a car

are you far away btw ?

I loved Concorde too. Years ago when I was a young un, I was at Reading Festival. Everyone was sitting around, stoned or drunk and all pretending to be very cool. Concorde flew over and suddently all these crusty types were standing up, pointing and going "oo, how fantastic! Concorde, wow, it's so fast".

aww, yes Concorde was just special

A friend from Weston has just rang as she knew this would make me laugh. She's just been down past the pier and there is a sea of flowers and wreaths in front of it.

She thought for a moment someone had died so stopped to take a closer look. The messages are along the lines of "To Kerry and Michael (or whatever the names are) With deepest sympathy for your sad loss of the Pier"

OMG I drove by yesterday and missed that. That is ridiculous! I am all for a bit of emotion, but bricks and mortar(or wood and arcade machines) are not living creatures. No-one died.

OrmIrian, have you been to Clevedon recently?

It's not remotely kiss me quick, in fact it is small and rather lovely. You can have a picnic on the beach on a sunny evening with hardly anyone there and watch the sunset over Wales. The Victorian pier is very pretty and sells cream teas and ice creams in the rotunda at the bottom. The salt flats has a little train for the children, a play park and a skate park. The is one tiny amusement arcade 1/2 way between the pier and the salt flats and that's it.

You should go, you might like it.

Agree, Clevedon is really different to Weston and Burnham these days, no comparison.

I'll take your word for it! I went to school there and it was dire. But now that you mention it my parents visited a friend there a few years back and said it was nicer now.

Perhaps we should go....