For those interested here is my Thanet blog chart for last
month, i.e. the traffic sources statistics for this blog
http://michaelsbookshop.com/laptop712/
This brings me to the vexed question of what to blog about
and I guess this rather depends on what you readers are interested in.
Here in Ramsgate one of the largest dental practices has lost
its national health status, which means lots of people have lost their dentist,
I gather this was done because of some government competition rules, but the
problem is the government having done this haven’t provided any alternative dentists.
Also Ramsgate has been named as one of the top ten uk beach
resort destinations, see
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/9282875/Jersey-most-popular-for-summer-staycation.html
There are a few disparities in the article the most interesting
one being; “So far about 30 per cent of the luxury apartments, priced from
£185,000 to £435,000, have been reserved.”
The amount of reserved apartments fluctuates a bit, at the
moment it’s fourteen out of 107, which I make about a sixth, rather than about
a third. For clarity these are apartments Nos. 2, 5,
6, 12, 19, 33, 41, 63, 64, 67, 91,91, 96 all the rest are available on the
internet.
Very hard to tell where the
council think they are going with The Royal Sands, or what the developer is
trying to achieve.
The closest guess on my part is the council
would like to avoid expensive litigation and the developer would like to make a
large profit.
Over in Margate the football club is back with an
amended planning application F/TH/12/0433
For those interested here is my Thanet blog
chart for last month, i.e. the traffic sources statistics for this blog watching the southeast BBC news today and
noting Tunbridge Wells borough council insisting that a proportion of employees
on a new development there should be recruited from people living in the area,
it occurred to me that if one of the criteria for being a senior council
officer at TDC was living in Thanet, it would ensure that the people making the
decisions had to live with the results of those decisions. I guess this could
be further extended to ward councillors having to be residents in the wards the
represented.
Back onto The Royal Sands, this time the cliff wall, over
the time I have taken an interest in this structure the council’s engineer and
engineering advisors have repeatedly told me that the cliff wall was built to
help stop weathering on the chalk.
I have now found out that it was build as a result of
a series of huge cliff collapses in 1935 and 1936. These collapses were though
to be the result of a prolonged period of wet weather, so evidently weathering
comes into it somewhere.
Bit of an amusing photo going around the book
trade at the moment which may appeal to some of you
I will ramble on.
Yes I aggree
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