A bit of progress with the painting looking towards Deal Time Ball from Wellingtons Café and of course the painting of the Pleasurama cliff wall.

So here is the picture of Deal seafront, I have added the 50p for scale as people are often disappointed by the size, hopefully I will have to face fewer comments, like. “I though it would be bigger.”

If it's any compensation you can click on the picture to make it much bigger than it really is.

 Here is a photo for aspiring art critics, sorrow with regards to the bits of hand in the way, I am having lessons in mobile phone holding.

Here is Wellington's breakfast, as you see fit for a general. This includes a pot of tea and a glass of orange juice for £5.25.

On to Pleasurama and the council who seem to be saying that the cliff wall that was repainted during the summer, will be repainted during the spring, see https://www.thanet.gov.uk/the-thanet-magazine/news-articles/2015/december/delay-to-royal-sands-project/ the local paper seems to be going along with this http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/Fresh-setback-Ramsgate-Royal-Sands-development/story-28340652-detail/story.html 

Whether this means the scaffolding that went up to paint it during the summer will be put up again, or whether they will do a Mr Bean job hasn’t been explained yet.

Oddly enough the contractors paining it seemed to think they had painted it and this mention of a final coat of paint has only come up since mention of the wrong paint being used was made yesterday on facebook, so what had really happened is anyone’s guess. I would say one thing is fairly certain and that is what the council say is unlikely to be what is actually happening.    

Anyway the picture above was of the scaffolding they used to paint the cliff wall with earlier this year, however now it is of the scaffolding they put up and took down prior to painting the cliff wall, isn't it?

This is some kind of zen, right? You know how it is, you have your house repainted, first they put up the scaffolding, then they fill the cracks then they put on the first coat of paint, then they take the scaffolding down, then they put on the final coat of paint. It’s obvious when you think about it. 

Watercolour sketch from Wellingtons Café in Deal, the smell of new books, more of Manston’s fat lady, Dreamland Scenic Railway opens tomorrow and a ramble.

I spent some of the day bookbuying in Dover and Deal, I am afraid this was curtailed when I stopped at Wellingtons Café on Deal seafront.

This watercolour was going to be a quick sketch, but the view, atmosphere and food meant I want to go back a few times, so 2 hours, 1 pot of tea, 1 cheeseburger and chips, one chocolate cake and quite a lot of painting on about a sixth of an A4 sheet later.

The Manston issue latest, RiverOak have published legal advice on the internet, see http://www.riveroakinvestments.co.uk/frequently-asked-questions-15th-october-2015/ this makes two all to RiverOak and Council leader Chris Wells infringing the agreement between the council and RiverOak only to issue joint statements while negotiations occur. I would say that this is a sure sign that negotiations have broken down completely and can see no way that this or any council would continue serious negotiations with any company that will infringe publicly published agreements at the drop of a hat. How officers must view having a council leader who does so beggars belief. 

Having just returned home to find boxes of brand new paperbacks have been delivered, cover prices ranging from £7.99 to £12.99 but all bought at a price so they can go out on the shelves in my bookshop at £2.99 each, I am happy indeed.

Not naff titles as you can see

Dreamland Scenic Railway opens tomorrow, I probably won’t go on it this weekend because of the weather forecast and having to organise my life in advance.

No callback from TDC on the slipways developer, no artist’s impressions of the new workshop building from the developer.

The work on the Pleasurama cliff façade seems to be almost on schedule, so perhaps something will happen on the site, who knows?

On the blogging front the automatic pageview counter provided by Blogger is coming up to the 2,000,000 pageviews since July 2010. I can set the thing on either month, week or all time and have set it on all time, perhaps the lucky two millionth visitor will notice. Pageviews at the moment seem to be running at about 1,200 a day.

I will try to ramble on here, after supper.

Ah here we go again, That's torn it, the council have published their side of the now not so confidential negotiations http://thanet.gov.uk/the-thanet-magazine/news-articles/2015/october/tdc-response-to-riveroak-faqs

Thanet Extra are tweeting tonight's Thanet Council meeting

Tweets by @ThanetExtra

A bit more painting in Ramsgate and Deal

I think this painting of Ramsgate Maritime Museum is pretty much finished after this morning's efforts

You can go on fiddling with pictures but at some point I guess you need to stop.

not sure how far I will go with this Deal one

the attraction here is Isaura's Fine Food and a lot of book buying for me in the Deal area