For those of you that don’t already know..........every single snap on this website is taken from one place -

our garden in Above Town, Dartmouth, Devon, England

Thursday 16th January 2025 6pm

No great earth moving events so far in 2025.

You'll just have to make do with some cloud, sun and mist.

As always, some taster pix here on the front page, dozens more inside the various albums.

Start here, then click any December, November, October pic and head off to see hundreds more.

And plenty more to see from earlier in the year, and check out the entire September album.

Do also look inside the January, February, March, April, May, June, July and August albums.

TVFTDO is a unique record of life in, on, around and above the wonderful river Dart.

See all of last years albums here.

You can also take a look at The Pick of TVFTDO.

PREVIOUSLY ON www.TVFTDO.com

13 December 2024 - 08:06:17

There's a new star in the east.

Simple, minimalist Christmas illuminations in Kingswear.

On a flagpole beside The Old Vicarage. Which seems apt.

04 December 2024 - 11:43:43

One of Dartmouth's lower ferry crew turned trawlerman and caught himself ...... a workman's tool trolley that had been floating mid-river.

21 November 2024 - 22:04:31

A commemorative dinner at BRNC to remember the Fleet Air Arm's success at the Battle of Taranto (look it up yourself) was finished off with a brief firework display. This pic shows, not a firework, but a huge explosive fireball detonated halfway through the display.

It was impressive from Above Town. It would have been hair singeing up close.

12 December 2024 - 10:24:54

With so much construction work going on in Kingswear, it's a wonder there haven't been more incidents like this.

It's a yellow mini dumper truck turned turtle. The orange digger is being prepared for the lift upright.

Click the pic and look inside the December album for more.

20 November 2024 - 07:45:47

A sensational sunrise. But look below for what followed less than a quarter of an hour later...........

17 December 2024 - 11:00:35

Now that's a sight worth seeing. Super tug CMS Thunderer, on its third visit to Dartmouth this year demonstrated its firefighting prowess.

Two powerful jets spray an astonishing arch high over and across the river this morning.

There's some power in that pump.

17 December 2024 - 10:59:33

Is it just me - or can you also see an image of the devil in that spray ?

A good devil, obviously.

17 December 2024 - 10:59:33

This view gives you an even better idea of just how far that water was being flung.

Lots more pix inside the December album. Just click the pic.

20 December 2024 - 16:47:15

Dart RNLI and a Coastguard helicopter crew  spent most of this particular afternoon

searching along the river from  south of the castles to north of Dittisham.

20 December 2024 - 16:53:48

The helicopter and its crew searched from the rivermouth to way beyond Dittisham.

They kept their super strong searchlifght turned off, suggesting the use of thermal imaging.

More photos inside the December album. Just click the pic.

20 December 2024 - 16:47:55

The airborne Coastguard team continued their search until after five when the light was almost gone.

20 December 2024 - 13:26:57

Earlier, both Dart lifeboats had scoured the moorings and riverbanks.

19 December 2024 - 10:41:31

Passing out parade at BRNC on Thursday before Christmas.

The salute was taken by the Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin KCB ADC.

He's one of those not hiding from me behind the trees.

19 December 2024 - 10:54:27

Proud family surrounded the parade ground to watch the officer cadets.

19 December 2024 - 13:07:44

Quicker than a bus, that's for certain.

The Admiral arrived and departed by flying chariot. Or, more exactly, an Agusta AW-109 Grand New helicopter, G-MAOL.

20 December 2024 - 09:21:31

Finally all the scaffolding has come down to reveal the new replacement house above Dart Harbour's Hoodown sheds.

I suspect that the brick building that remained will soon be changing colour.

5 November 2020 - 11:09:04

And here's how the house used to look.

It was never the most attractive of properties.

01 January 2025 - 00:03:32

Organised by Dart Harbour and paid for by various sponsors, mainly generous businesses around town Dartmouth has once again got a New Years Firework display.  An excellent focus for the evening, which, in time, may well hail the return of the fancy dress night in town.

01 January 2025 - 00:02:40

Yeah, I know, not the best firework pix.

Just live with it.

01 January 2025 - 00:04:30

More than any other colour, the red fireworks light up the valley.

27 December 2024 - 21:29:29

'twixt Christmas and New Year, Kingswear has been more or less, totally lit up. (With one, un-glaring exception).

London must be empty.

31 December 2024 - 15:47:49

This is the barge on which the firework display was being prepared.

Be reassured, those two large tubes on the left are not oversized bangers.

At least, I think not.

16 January 2025 - 08:43:03

No sensational events occuring yet, but some interesting weather that's worth seeing.

This morning's sunrise popped up under the cover of low cloud.

Cloud, sun and mist, make the best pix. And turns me into a poet.

16 January 2025 - 07:35:04

Earlier, in the darkness, the mist wasn't helping vision.

It's Kingswear ferry pontoon in case you hadn't guessed.

15 January 2025 - 11:04:22

The previous day with similar foggy conditions the sun finally burned off the cloudy stuff.

Although in technical terms that's probably cloud on the right and fog down left. And the top of Kingswear in the background

14 January 2025 - 07:56:11

And the day prior to that one above, produced this little stunner.

14 January 2025 - 18:20:01

Yes, obviously that's the moon rising over Kiingswear.

Can you see the line of three stars to the right and above the moon?

They are, in ascending order.....Mars, Pollux and Castor.

14 January 2025 - 12:49:23

But that's another storey.

Down at Noss on Dart, the hotel is rising gently.

14 January 2025 - 12:48:33

Meanwhile, little obvious movement at the new RNLI boat house.

11 January 2025 - 10:15:50

Collective noun for a group of kayakers ?

Just a suggestion but, how about, a raft ?

01 January 2025 - 15:12:32

First day of the year and this group went a house viewing down near Ravensbury Drive and Warfleet.

It always amuses to see people standing up in a boat, they tend to be unstable things. The logo on the umbrella reads Development Securities plc.

According to the company website they were involved in the building of a care home in Dartmouth in 2010.

12 January 2025 - 14:00:14

This 104m ship was passing the rivermouth heading to an anchoage in Tor Bay.

It has an unusual job, it's a Nuclear Fuel Carrier.

Stand back.

03 January 2025 - 08:41:47

First shout of the year - a call out to Beesands.

And on the way back into Dartmouth harbour a quick check of the shoreline under rthe Dartmouth Office.

03 January 2025 - 08:56:39

It's known as 'sea smoke' and is actually water vapour that forms when really cold air moves over relatively warmer water.

It is not, as the Chron called it, "steam".