Saturday, 8 August 2009

Broadstairs Folk Week Thanet District Council miss web publicity again and a few other thoughts for today.

Folk Week stared yesterday and nothing on the council’s homepage, I am sure the council will have loads of reasons and excuses as to why it isn’t there, my own thoughts are perhaps because it isn’t in Margate.

Here is the link to The Broadstairs Folk Week website www.broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk it was all a bit quiet when I went over there earlier this morning, I will try and take some pictures over the weekend.
I tried to take a few of the market in Ramsgate yesterday but it was just too busy.

Talking to one of the chaps that clean the seafront and streets in Ramsgate this morning he raised a couple points that interested me. One was that there were several broken bottles in the pavilion area and the other was that several people had lit bar-b-cues under the part of the pavilion that faces the sea and is an open shelter.
Obviously both things are dangerous and need addressing in some way.



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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 08, 2009 12:58 pm

    Broadstairs will be even quieter if TDC gets its way and forces the Folk Week committee to relocate to a more rural site. For what reason I've no idea but it would be interesting to know their reasoning.It's hardly be Broadstairs Folk Week then.

    Does anyone know if the council gives any funds to support this annual event?

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  2. AnonymousAugust 09, 2009 11:51 pm

    It's a spat about the roads: no-one wants to pay for the closures. It isn't much, but I guess the organisers are protecting their salaries (who can blame them), the pubs are protecting their interests (who can blame them) and since TDC aren't directly involved, they're protecting their budgets (despite the cost to sort it out being 5% of what they spent on the Big Event).

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  3. AnonymousAugust 10, 2009 2:37 am

    Let it and the troublesome Fireworks Night's move they are both an excuse for drunken and loutish behaviour.

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  4. AnonymousAugust 11, 2009 4:23 pm

    i hope folk does go elsewhere, i hate it, the music is shit and the town get gridlocked.

    have it somewhere else where the roads can cope and there is better parking.

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.