Folkestone today, bought a few books for
the bookshop and potential reading matter as I am running out of Haruki Murakami
books to read. I have pretty much read all of his fiction which is in the “Magic
Realism” ballpark in the same sort of way that John Fowles, Angela Carter and
Nicholas Mosley are, but of course not.
With various local issues open to input
from local people this month I have been doing a bit of preparatory research. The
local plan, the port and the airport, spring to mind here.
As a member of The Flat Earth Society, Australian
division – incognito I have been all for building an airfreight hub recently, I
am looking forward to both sacrificing part of my life and contracting dementia
which RSP RiverOak say in their documentation will happen due to the
particulate pollution generated by burning more than 10,000 tonnes of kerosene
on the ground in Thanet every year. There is also useful business of having to
build housing on prime farmland because of the council deciding to keep the
Manston Airport site for aviation use, I am hoping that when we get things the
right way up a lot of the UK’s food will be imported from Australia and New
Zealand.
Anyway I have been trying to find out on
Facebook the reasons other airfreight hub supporters are prepared to make the ultimate
sacrifice for import/export and have discovered that some of them also “don’t believe
in climate change” which I think may be some sort of avant garde religion.
The summer being mostly over with the
children back to school next week and winter on the way I am hoping for a bit
more on the gentle relaxation front at work. The life of a secondhand
bookseller can be hard at times.
Note the East Kent Critic book in the bookshop post
Strange business The East Kent Critic,
written by one of our Labour councillors and financed partly by our
Conservative MP
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