Old Thanet photos, Posting Painting from the Royal Victoria Pavilion Ramsgate aka Wetherspoons.

Salmestone Grange, in roughly the words of the song, it's younger than that now.

This and that in today's post I have just got back from painting at the Pav here in Ramsgate, more of that further down the post. The computer that I usually work on/at in the bookshop has just been changed for a faster one and I am checking it out while the grownup who changed it for me is still here.

Hence and f'rinstance a link to the bigger pictures possibly too big, on the other hand - not the expected four fingers thumb etc. but this works better for the Nikon P610. Vide ligo 

As you may have seen, having built a wooden building in Charlotte Court the are lining the outside with bricks. I recently watched the same technique in Canterbury.

What with BREXIT, and the local elections I sort of feel I should say something or another, with the locals where it should be for and about who you would like to get elected, it does seem to be about trying to keep out who you really don't want to get in.

I wonder what the local situation will be with climate change. In one way, is there much local government can do about it? In the other, how much will the climate change changes impact on what local government can do?

HMS Revenge

I think this is the "new" Margate lighthouse after rebuilding after the 1953 storm.

I am writing this post in The Pav aka Spoons, Saturdays are becoming a day off for me, in the sense that I do something different. Dealing in books and working on versions aspects of Thanet's local history can easily take over. On the painting front the idea is to try to improve on my sketch drawn inside the Pav by drawing/painting it again, especially looking at the faults in the previous sketch.

Another aspect of this is adding bits to the previous sketch is the floor, especially the parquet bit. This is both brown and very dark coloured almost black, but also reflective so parts of it are almost white. A lot of light comes from the windows behind it. A sort of What's black and white and brown all over?