Thanet Janet

Only in your super, soaraway Eastcliff Richard! Each week local author Janet Thanet gives us her insight into the island!!! I'd been meaning to take the dog for a walk but somehow hadn't quite got around to it after Rodney treated me to an echinacea rub in our gorgeous walled garden. Enjoying a cup of organic Earl Grey, I was miles away, remembering dreamy days on the beach at our beloved Broadstairs. I'd been suffering from a touch of anxiety brought on by the time of the month, and what with

FROM: @ Friday, 16th May 2008

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Keble's Penny Guide to Margate and the Isle of Thanet 1885

Another old Thanet Guide book that I publish a cheap reprint of for you all today, I have just put a fair amount of it up on the web, the pages are about the same size as the original. Many thanks to Norman Munn, who is encouraging me to produce more Margate material, for lending me the original copy of this and other Margate publications to copy for publication. Originals of Keble?s penny guides are very frail items just a careful read tends to make them fall to pieces, so it was with great p

FROM: @ Friday, 16th May 2008

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Bands On The Sands @ Margate Main Beach

I just had the heads up on an upcoming event on Margate,Kent?s main beach. It?s going to be a spectacular event raising money and awareness for Breast Cancer UK. If there are any bands that want to play then contact the event organisers on their myspace page. Its due to be held sometime in the summer (2009) and it will be fully previewed and reviewed here. Check back for latest updates on dates and bands performing. They also have a facebook group.

FROM: @ Thursday, 15th May 2008

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The Star is Such a Cheeky Chappy

Two weeks of positive posts - day one I mentioned recently (Thanet has arrived online) that I wanted to try and find something positive to say about Thanet on 14 different topics over 14 days. As Peter Checksfield was the first to reply to that post (in stereo) I think I will start with him today. Peter Checksfield is a Rising StarPeter Checksfield is Thanet's leading cheeky chappy, outspoken nudist and the local naked photographer (read that one how you will) famous for his (NSFW) Naked i

FROM: Thanet Star MicroBlog @ Thursday, 15th May 2008

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Thanet has arrived online

Thanet has arrived according to technorati at any rate. It seems that sometime around the October to November 2007 the word "Thanet" started to register on the global radar. This is great news for all Thanet bloggers and web surfers because it means that the island is finally forging an online identity. We have a long way to go before Thanet is, in any way, an interesting enough topic to attract financial impact outside of a few isolated blogs but we are starting to get noticed. However, comp

FROM: Thanet Star MicroBlog @ Wednesday, 14th May 2008

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Thanet has arrived online

Thanet has arrived according to technorati at any rate. It seems that sometime around the October to November 2007 the word "Thanet" started to register on the global radar. This is great news for all Thanet bloggers and web surfers because it means that the island is finally forging an online identity. We have a long way to go before Thanet is, in any way, an interesting enough topic to attract financial impact outside of a few isolated blogs but we are starting to get noticed. However, comp

FROM: The Thanet Star @ Wednesday, 14th May 2008

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Parish Pump

News just in from Ramsgate First's impressive cliff top HQ (see above) - head RFer Gerry O'Donnell is apparently on the warpath over the way TDC has been dragging its heels setting up a teeny-tiny council for the Millionaires' Playground. Despite overwhelming support for a parish council in a petition, and in a subsequent TDC-funded referendum, there's still no date for elections, or, indeed, any sign that anything is happening at all. Now Chief O'Donnell has put in an FOI application to the go

FROM: @ Wednesday, 14th May 2008

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Tour De Thanet

Whilst some people may be disappointed to learn that I'm not a 'welfare sponger with a political axe to grind', I am, nonetheless, a barely employed celebrity millionaire with an old throbber to thrash. So this afternoon I whipped it out and took a sunshine tour of our lovely tip of Kent. It seems the old dirt track in King George VI Park has had the tarmac treatment and is now a bit of a cycle path (the old jokes are best). On to Boredstares, where York Gate has now been repaired following lor

FROM: @ Monday, 12th May 2008

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5am Monday morning?

Sunday night Far from sleep I?m still up and driving Can?t go home obviously So I?ll just change direction? Last night I stayed awake and went down to Broadstair?s beach at 4am to catch the sunrise! I will have to go back some other time to get some unspoilt sunrise shots of the beach and harbour. As the beach was littered with, well litter that people had left behind over the weekend!

FROM: Furious Magazine @ Monday, 12th May 2008

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Anyone for Croquet?

How many people did the same thing as me - lean against wet paint at the weekend? The black tar-like substance which coated my arm was on the gate entrance to the Ramsgate Croquet club (see below link), on the Royal Esplanade. OK my posture should be better, no excuses, I bought it on myself by leaning against a gate? My slouching took place, however, on a busy Sunny Saturday afternoon when the whole area was packed with people - even the Croquet Lawns were busy - which must be the first time

FROM: @ Monday, 12th May 2008

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TDCTV

I have just discovered that Thanet District Council installed a webcast TV system in the council chamber back in 2003, in the light of various postings about some fairly interesting exchanges at recent council meetings, does anyone know why it?s not being used so we can all appreciate our local democracy at work? Mike Harrison has some suggestions about this on Newington Blogspot link on sidebar. This is a sample from my own rather primitive attempts at webcast just to show that this very in

FROM: @ Sunday, 11th May 2008

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Buy a Home in Thanet?

image by davepatternToday we are talking about Real Estate in Thanet. Specifically Real Estate Websites serving us in Thanet. Are they any good in your opinion and what could they be doing better? For an example I did a search in Thanet Finder (our local search engine) for the phrase "homes for sale in Margate" which I figure might be something that anyone might type into a search engine when looking to buy a home in the area. I was a bit surprised by the result! I discovered that loc

FROM: Thanet Star MicroBlog @ Saturday, 10th May 2008

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Buy a Home in Thanet?

image by davepatternToday we are talking about Real Estate in Thanet. Specifically Real Estate Websites serving us in Thanet. Are they any good in your opinion and what could they be doing better? For an example I did a search in Thanet Finder (our local search engine) for the phrase "homes for sale in Margate" which I figure might be something that anyone might type into a search engine when looking to buy a home in the area. I was a bit surprised by the result! I discovered that loc

FROM: The Thanet Star @ Saturday, 10th May 2008

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Power To The Peoples?

I am gratefulled to the regular contributor Millicent for highlights an item in the latest edition of our treasured council's magazine Thanet Pravda. The article prints the Great Thanet Sell-Off - 16 pieces of, albeit slightly tarnished, Thanet silverware the council wants to vend. As part of the sale of such gems as Margate Post Office, Albion House in Ramsgate and Northdown House in Cliftonville, the council is holding a 'consultation'. OK, there is an address he can write to with her comment

FROM: @ Friday, 9th May 2008

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Chaos on Thanet's Roads

Margate has experienced massive disruption to the normal flow of traffic today following a fire and an unrelated traffic accident on the main route trough Margate to Ramsgate. The fire at Hawley Square has, according to kentnews.co.uk, had 70 firefighters and 12 engines fighting the blaze which has left at least 8 people homeless and the main road closed. This has caused traffic (including buses) to divert via the clock-tower leading to an increase of traffic through that area making it

FROM: Thanet Star MicroBlog @ Wednesday, 7th May 2008

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Chaos on Thanet's Roads

Chaos on Thanet's Roads Written by Matt B · first published 07/05/2008 Margate has experienced massive disruption to the normal flow of traffic today following a fire and an unrelated traffic accident on the main route trough Margate to Ramsgate. The fire at Hawley Square has, according to kentnews.co.uk, had 70 firefighters and 12 engines fighting the blaze which has left at least 8 people homeless and the main road closed. This has caused traffic (including buses) to divert via the c

FROM: The Thanet Star @ Wednesday, 7th May 2008

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Mastic And Spongaloid.

My God, how I hate having to call the builders in, particularly since I've lived in Ramsgate, as the place seems to have tradesmen entirely in a class of their own! Still, when you've got water coming in through your lounge window, even when it's not raining, it's something you just have to bite the bullet and get on with. I'm not sure how it works with everyone else, but I'm yet to find a builder who's proficient enough to invite back for a second job, so, yet again, I find myself with new face

FROM: @ Wednesday, 7th May 2008

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More Muck Dredged Up On TDC's Watch

My fiancée, the lovely Mrs Ceaucescu (no relation), and her husband, Mr Ceaucescu (no relation (other than to the lovely Mrs Ceaucescu (no relation))), seem to think it would be a good idea for me to invest in one of those floating gin palaces you see down at the marina here in the Cannes of Kent. Something about it being handy for regular trips to the in-laws in Belgium. So this morning I pottered down the street and picked up the latest edition of Motor Boats Monthly. Imagine my surprise when

FROM: @ Saturday, 3rd May 2008

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Self Loathing in Broadstairs

Photo by weegeeboredOur district endured yet another pointless roasting this week. This time from The Independent's writer Will Self who opens: "The Isle of Thanet has always been a little problematic for me". Of Broadstairs he writes "seldom has anywhere more gentrified become more chavvy" - a comment which has some grounding in fact, sadly. Broadstairs does have a "youth drinking problem" (not to mention an adults drinking problem at some pubs if all reports are to believed). Will ends by

FROM: Thanet Star MicroBlog @ Friday, 2nd May 2008

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Self Loathing in Broadstairs

Photo by weegeeboredOur district endured yet another pointless roasting this week. This time from The Independent's writer Will Self who opens: "The Isle of Thanet has always been a little problematic for me". Of Broadstairs he writes "seldom has anywhere more gentrified become more chavvy" - a comment which has some grounding in fact, sadly. Broadstairs does have a "youth drinking problem" (not to mention an adults drinking problem at some pubs if all reports are to believed). Will ends by

FROM: The Thanet Star @ Friday, 2nd May 2008

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