David Child
@davidchild.bsky.social
In a perpetual search for a beach house.
I watched the first ep but struggled with how dark it was - literally and subject matter. Feel like I need to persevere tho.
August 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I watched the first ep but struggled with how dark it was - literally and subject matter. Feel like I need to persevere tho.
Am on the east coast now and there are tons of (lovely and busy) caravan parks that are doing a roaring trade.
August 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Am on the east coast now and there are tons of (lovely and busy) caravan parks that are doing a roaring trade.
Yeah, there’s def some growth. We’d just need to massively increase land use by the sea.
August 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yeah, there’s def some growth. We’d just need to massively increase land use by the sea.
Yep, but it’s “tiny”. And it doesn’t usually coincide with “has plenty of money and wants big splash parks and full of entertainment and all-inclusive food”.
August 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Yep, but it’s “tiny”. And it doesn’t usually coincide with “has plenty of money and wants big splash parks and full of entertainment and all-inclusive food”.
Oh totally. But there’s, what, 7 Center Parcs? Some villages in a small Greek island will have that many - with 200+ rooms each. And buying the land on the beachfront for all that hotel would mean you’d have to charge a fortune. Land in rural Bedfordshire is much cheaper.
August 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Oh totally. But there’s, what, 7 Center Parcs? Some villages in a small Greek island will have that many - with 200+ rooms each. And buying the land on the beachfront for all that hotel would mean you’d have to charge a fortune. Land in rural Bedfordshire is much cheaper.
For the cost of a weekend there you can get flights and a week all-inclusive in Greece.
August 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
For the cost of a weekend there you can get flights and a week all-inclusive in Greece.
Also eg this 5* hotel with a pool is £500+ a night next weekend:
August 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Also eg this 5* hotel with a pool is £500+ a night next weekend:
There are lots of campsites that are similar I guess. But the land needed is huge (even ignoring overcoming planning permission) and the economics of those places mean you need four v busy months to make them work and we cannot yet attract that many people.
August 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There are lots of campsites that are similar I guess. But the land needed is huge (even ignoring overcoming planning permission) and the economics of those places mean you need four v busy months to make them work and we cannot yet attract that many people.
It was a stop en route to Scotland. But yes, I don’t think the brisk wind and grey skies were the issue tho.
August 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It was a stop en route to Scotland. But yes, I don’t think the brisk wind and grey skies were the issue tho.
But we could no way afford to build and run the sort of all-inclusive 5*, water-park and activity-packed beachside hotels that are ten a penny in Spain / Turkey / Greece in any remotely accessible way. Try booking even a hotel with a pool on the English coast in August.
August 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
But we could no way afford to build and run the sort of all-inclusive 5*, water-park and activity-packed beachside hotels that are ten a penny in Spain / Turkey / Greece in any remotely accessible way. Try booking even a hotel with a pool on the English coast in August.
Went in late-January this year and it was thoroughly depressing. Tho decent fish and chips.
August 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Went in late-January this year and it was thoroughly depressing. Tho decent fish and chips.
As someone who until recently worked in travel PR, what I find especially interesting is his stuff is very “non” travel content. And yet inspires travel possibly more so than ones of lovely looking beaches and sweeping panoramas.
August 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
As someone who until recently worked in travel PR, what I find especially interesting is his stuff is very “non” travel content. And yet inspires travel possibly more so than ones of lovely looking beaches and sweeping panoramas.
They seem to not have much in the way of public affinity / common sense when it comes to choosing what battles to fight.
August 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
They seem to not have much in the way of public affinity / common sense when it comes to choosing what battles to fight.
Yep, or at least a “urinals” and “cubicles”.
August 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Yep, or at least a “urinals” and “cubicles”.
There is so much goodwill for it. And the characters. And it’s like they wanted us to wish it over.
August 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
There is so much goodwill for it. And the characters. And it’s like they wanted us to wish it over.
Isn’t it the worst. Have loved hate-watching every episode.
August 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Isn’t it the worst. Have loved hate-watching every episode.
Yeah, I guess the test is if a toilet door with a woman sign on makes it a single sex space?
August 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Yeah, I guess the test is if a toilet door with a woman sign on makes it a single sex space?
Same. Not a lawyer so is just my lay person reading of the ruling but it seems pretty explicit that biologically female as well as female-presenting (ie not trans men) are primary in the case of single sex spaces.
August 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Same. Not a lawyer so is just my lay person reading of the ruling but it seems pretty explicit that biologically female as well as female-presenting (ie not trans men) are primary in the case of single sex spaces.
That’s the thing, if you “present” male you should use male loos. And then we start with the women who have shaved heads or a strong jaw or are tall and suddenly people start asking for birth certificates.
August 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
That’s the thing, if you “present” male you should use male loos. And then we start with the women who have shaved heads or a strong jaw or are tall and suddenly people start asking for birth certificates.