Not perhaps the best painting of Dover Castle, done today
between rain showers from pretty much the only seat facing The Great Tower from
within the walled bailey. The tower which forms the castles keep was built in
the 1100s and painting it I was reminded of the medieval monarchs letters to
the lords warden of the Cinque Ports telling them to get the constable to make
the population of Thanet repair to Dover Castle for their protection.
The last day of the school holidays for us today, a busy
time both in my bookshop and with my family, so apologies for the lack of blog
posts recently, if the weather had been better there would have been more
paintings from the early mornings.
On the local political front our UKIP TDC council seems to
have become something of a secretive dictatorship and for the time being I have
rather given up on them. I think that very little seems to be happening at TDC
in terms of political change due to UKIP.
Of course any councillors reading this blog who are
instigating any sort of change or improvement can always comment saying what it
is they are doing, they certainly don’t seem to engaging in social media
elsewhere and I think it will some time before we see a blogging TDC cabinet
member again.
The Manston issue seems to be still grinding on, with it
becoming progressively clear that political promises to create an airfreight
hub on the site of Manston Airport are not going to happen because it is far beyond
anything a district council could achieve.
There are rumours of something of a rebellion against the
current leader and cabinet, but as both the rebels and the leaders seem to have
only the same two items on their agenda, building and airfreight hub and
leaving the EU I doubt it will come to much.
On the bookshop front we are getting better at putting the
books going on to the shelves in the bookshop on to the bookshop blog http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/
and I am now getting customers come in into the shop to buy books that have
come in recently.
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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.