Margate, Art, Books, Old Pictures

 Click on the pictures to make them bigger, so starting with a couple of Ramsgate ones, looks like tar varnishing to me

 I went to Margate today to look at the new exhibitions at turner contemporary, Cornelia Parker, Perpetual Canon, YAASS: Empowered, Patrick Heron and Akram Zaatari: The Script

 Played with my new secondhand camera (Nikon P610 set on 2 megapixels which is about the size of a computer screen)

 This is panorama mode, hand held and not really making any effort to hold the camera steady. Blogger shrank my panoramas, here are the links to full size link 1 link 2

 OK I know art and literature isn't everyone's glass of wosisname so here are couple of reasonable old Margate photos

I wrote the rest of this blog post on the bus home, so a bit grumpy

The juxture position, contrast, wosisname between The Margate Coffee Shed and the Loop bus from Ramsgate worries me.

I deliberately use the bus to Margate instead of taking the car at least every 6 months, I don’t usually use the bus because if I do it means that I can’t buy books for my bookshop and I figure that the books getting reused is better for the environment.

The newish exhibitions at Turner Contemporary, there is a sense here where I don't know what to say about them.

I guess the acid test is partly did it inspire me to paint, I painted over my lunch, viewed the exhibitions, subsequently went fort a cuppa in the shed and painted again. And I don't think that it did. Would I travel up to London to see it? No. Is it worth going over to Margate from Ramsgate to see it?

Part of the issue with Turner Contemporary art gallery is that the majority of the funding comes from local taxation, in this case , if you live in Kent your council tax.

There is really nothing for those people who don't enjoy this type of art, no JWM Turner paintings, No Rodin's Kiss, no Webb of Margate .

Of course I guess it depends on the particular sort of taste of the people who pay the most taxes, I was reminded of the other day in the clothes shop with my teenage daughters, I had the money and there was nothing for me to sit on, nothing that I was interested in and eventually I just went.

Will I go back for another look, probably not, in other words I probably won't go to Margate until January when the next exhibition starts. This is the link to the pictures of inside the gallery

I went to both bookshops Hooked On Books in the High Street, this is a good medium sized, around 50 bookcases, general secondhand bookshop. The Old Bank Bookshop which is a charity bookshop in aid of the hospices,

These photos are of the inside of Hooked on Book which gives you some idea of what the shop is like. This is the link to them

The Old Bank Bookshop has suffered from most of the upstairs having its bookshelves removed which is now used for displaying pictures for sale.

Sorry if this post is a bit disjointed but I am writing it on the bus back from Margate, which is a bit bumpy and very full.

I very seldom used the bus, but I do go out of my way use it occasionally as I am interested in the way Thanet connects up. I suppose if I wasn't then I wouldn't still be in business.

The riddle is a man and his son are in a car crash, the father is killed and when the son arrives on the operating table the surgeon says. “I can't do the operation because this is my son.”

So the question is. Who is the surgeon?

Answers from people who haven't heard it before, please.

Link to a few Margate photos taken today

Just to round things off, phone pictures paining from Margate Coffee Shed over cheese and tom sarni and cuppa