I guess that as more than 34,000,000 people have died from
aids having a day to commemorate it makes some sort of sense, and to be honest
I had had assumed that this was a bit like poppy day.
So why no ribbon, obviously a lot of the people who have
contracted aids are homosexual, so am I homophobic? Having done the old
introspection bit, I don’t seem to be, always difficult with the ‘ists and ‘ics
in one’s head inasmuch as it isn’t covered by the mutually exclusive rule. What
am I on about here? Well you can be gay and homophobic, black and racist,
female and sexist and so on.
Is it because I am unaffected or hardly affected by aids? No
the majority of the school friends I made when I was a teenager have died from
aids. Perhaps I had better explain this one, I was disabled as child and went
to Lord Mayor Treloar College, so most of my secondary school friends were
haemophiliacs and have therefore died of aids.
So why no red ribbon on World Aids Day? Truth of the matter
is I can’t find anywhere selling them and haven’t seen anyone wearing one who I
could have asked where they got it from.
Having been out to get the shopping, I then looked at the
BBC news on the net over my lunch and no mention of World Aids Day there,
perhaps I have got the day wrong.
Onto the painting, I did a bit more on the Ramsgate Harbour
Arches picture from Miles Café Culture, being watercolour where you can’t paint
light on dark, this was mostly the white bits where the railings go.
The purists say they leave the white bits blank as they
paint, my guess is that most of them slap on releasing fluid and peel it off
when the painting is finished, carting the unfinished painting around in my
pocket means that this isn’t an option open to me as the movement makes it peel
off.
I cheat on this one and slap on white watercolour which
gives me a marker to paint around, I think JWM Turner put on pencil lines,
painted round them and the rubbed them out when the paint was dry, but this
produces a rather strange looking picture when I do it.
If you look at this Turner watercolour of Canterbury you
will see what I mean.
It’s now two years since Ann Gloag bought Manston Airport
and the next public consultation on the Stone Hill Park development is at
Pegwell Bay Hotel tomorrow, see http://www.stonehillpark.co.uk/come-and-have-your-say-on-plans-for-stone-hill-park
The council and the various other groups who seem to be
hoping to turn it into an airfreight hub are yet to hold any public
consultation on this course of action.
Here is the latest from the council https://www.thanet.gov.uk/the-thanet-magazine/news-articles/2015/november/council-to-undertake-further-soft-market-testing/
“a viable airport could come into sustainable long-term operation as quickly as
reasonably possible” Perhaps they somehow didn’t notice the last fifty years of
attempts starting with Air Ferries and finishing with Ann Gloag.
Work in my bookshop goes on a pace as you can see from the
bookshop blog which shows the books we put out on the shelves http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/
TDC are picking on Ramsgate again. The amount of cash they hope to save in a year is peanuts and then if their logic is correct. Free Saturday parking in the Leopold car park is being scrapped. I don't know how they can possibly know but they claim free Saturday parking across Thanet costs £18k a year and Ramsgate's share is £12k, have they spent all day counting cars? I know they are making Canons road free but who will walk the extra distance? Looks like about 200 Saturday shoppers will give Ramsgate a miss in the future. I know Michael you have reservations about some shoppers not liking the multi story but it must have cost the council more than the savings to find out and if the shoppers go elsewhere then its a stupid mistake.
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