A recent one was an artist who bought 50 10p hardbacks to make a sculpture of a toilet, so I would say it is likely that I have received £5 of art council funding.
I have had a bit of a difficult time today as I had about 100 local history books to staple together and the new box of staples I opened had some faulty ones in it, all a bit angry making as it took me some time to work out what was wrong.
I don’t think I ever remember Pancake Day falling in half term before and I am wondering if the golden number as somehow slipped from the ecclesiastical to the academic calendar so now we will always be shriven with children.
It is a bit of a difficult time of year to have a week off school, the parks are very cold and muddy, in fact there isn’t a lot for them to do, groups of bored secondary school children periodically drift into the shop, there really isn’t a place in town for them to go.
It is a great pity that one of the redundant council owned buildings couldn’t be turned into a youth centre, with skating, pool tables and so on, The Westcliff Hall would be a favourite for this.
Rather than a £1,000,000 per year subsidising a minority interest like the TC, one has to wonder what that amount of our tax-payers money could do to provide worthwhile facilities for our young in Thanet on a year on year basis.
ReplyDeleteFor example, in Westgate alone, both the Ursuline and King Ethelbert Schools have multi-million pound state of the art Sports Halls funded by the state, within a few yards of each other. Is there any funding for these facilities to be used for half-terms and main school holidays for activities and clubs or are they standing in glorious empty isolation and unused by the young after school, at week-ends and during the holidays?
Great suggestion the old motor museum would make a good youth centre. Its about time TDC did something for the teenagers apart from producing cr***y newspapers that no-one between 10 and 20 reads.
ReplyDeleteGreat suggestion the old motor museum would make a good youth centre. Its about time TDC did something for the teenagers apart from producing cr***y newspapers that no-one between 10 and 20 reads.
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