Saturday 29 October 2016

Four old postcards of Ramsgate, a bit of sketching in Canterbury and some thoughts on armed police, well a bit of a ramble

Not particularly good postcards these but I am doing the good the bad and the ugly, so these fall into the not too bad unless you expand them bracket.





My plan today was to do another watercolour sketch of the inside of Canterbury Cathedral, however I got confused in amongst the tracery and gave up.

Off to Chocolate Café and a recovery pen sketch


Followed by this one which is the start of a view of the cathedral through the window and so far I am fairly pleased with the way it’s going.

I have been meandering in and out of the cathedral since the 1960s and as far as I remember in the 60s and 70s, outside of service hours it was pretty much deserted, whereas nowadays the number of tourists makes the background noise level such that I often resort so earplugs if I am sketching in there.

What hadn’t occurred to me is that it is a target in this modern world and we seem to have gone from hardly ever seen the police there to police armed with automatic weapons and pistols.

I am still not sure how I feel about this one, it takes a bit of getting used to, I can see the repost to any query being. “Would you prefer inadequately armed police?” I wonder what other people think about this one.


There is a certain irony in looking at the books that went out in my bookshop today and seeing the catalogue of a Ramsgate gunsmith has sold again, see http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/i-think-youll-find-its-bit-more.html

1 comment:

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.