1 So starting with a mystery item today, this travelled with
me and I used it illicitly at boarding school, at a couple of universities that
are best not named as I am sure they wouldn’t want to be associated with me, in
rental accommodation in Thanet and beyond. If you know what it is, perhaps
instead of answering that on the various Facebook groups where people comment
about my pictures, you would like to tell us how you used it, without
incriminating yourself, that is.
The thing about being holed up here in the flat above the
Bookshop in Ramsgate is that I have started to tidy up a bit. Please appreciate
I am the sort of person who if they put something down in say 1990 I expect it
to still be there when they look for it now thirty years later. Hence the
mystery object that had fallen through the cracks of time.
2 When in all of the writings of the world is The Isle of
Thanet first mentioned, and which famous scholar mentioned it.
3 where and when is Ramsgate first mentioned?
I should point out here that both mentions are well before
the short-lived fad of every one who writes in English spelling all their words
in the same way C1700 to 0970.
OK some local pictures next
Haywain in Shottendane Rd. Westgate
ullo john gotta new motor or yesterday’s answers
1 and 4 Ramsgate Motor Museum link to the site I wrote for them years ago Hillman Minx and under a vintage car there, you can go to the site and work out more detail if you wish.
3 1911 Evinrude outboard motor here is the link to the strip of out and about photos it's on if you want more precision
4 The Boliderr two stroke diesel engine in the Black Opel
she was rigged in Ramsgate harbour, when we took this ancient two cylinder 200hp engine out it had an 11 inch bore and 12 inch stroke, the flywheel alone weighed in at about 3 tons. The engine ticked over at about 25 rpm
Some thoughts on Boris Johnson and his illness today and
past prime ministers their illnesses and pandemics in the past.
To begin this I should point out that in terms of politics I
mainly support democracy and once our politicians have been elected I do my
best to support them whether I voted for them or not. I genuinely think that if
we had had either an exclusively Labour or and exclusively Conservative
government for the last hundred years, the country would be the worse for it.
I find it difficult to understand the reasoning of people
who always vote for the same party regardless of the qualities of the local
candidates who may eventually be their MP. Here in Thanet South we have had good
and bad MPs of both parties, including some so bad that they don’t even reply
to reasonable correspondence or will only support their constituents in matters
they agree with.
At the moment it seems that Boris is out of the woods, but
given the situation, still in the trees.
Winston Churchill got pneumonia twice while he was serving
prime minster during WW2.
However, the most notable occasion, obviously hushed up at
the time was during the "Spanish flu" pandemic, which didn’t originate
in Spain.
Shortly before the end of WW2, on 11 September 1918, the
Liberal prime minister Lloyd George was in Manchester raising morale when he
collapsed with a fever.
He spent 10 days immobile on a respirator to aid his
breathing of course this didn’t get into the press as it would have been boost
to German propaganda and bad for the British phlegm.
So how bad was the “Spanish Flue” virus?
It killed around 250,000 people in the UK and around 50
million people worldwide. We fought it mostly with gargling salt water and social
distancing I believe.
I guess you can tell I am building up to looking at and publishing today's pandemic figures below, if you came here to escape don't scroll down further. filler pictures next
I like photographing London, but probably not this year.
I will add the staats and stuff later
In olden days the only electric was the lighting circuit and you used the adapter to plug anything in. At least one relative used to have an electic iron plugged in this way. Until recently my parents bedside lights used these connected to a Y adapter and then the mains.
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