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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.
Great news Michael.I thought the project might have ended up being abandoned.
ReplyDeleteAnother stupid UKIP idea scuppered - hurrah! Quite what UKIP were thinking of when they asked Kent Highways to get the hoarding put back to the original boundaries, god knows. On the other hand, speaking of GO'D, one does have to wonder whether his Great Wall is playing into the hands of Swiss Terry and his mysterious developers. Beautifying the hoarding only serves to camouflage the hideous eyesore they have turned our seafront into.
ReplyDeleteAt least moving the hoarding back would have returned a large slice of the promenade back to public use. As for the paintings, they do attract favourable comments from visitors but then as a visitor myself I guess I'm prejudiced.
ReplyDeleteMy take is that while it would have been nice to have a bit more prom, this is the best we would be likely to get this year and that it is preferable to have some paintings there than nothing at all.
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