Bucket and Spade Run Ramsgate 2017 photos

A few photos of today’s event at Government Acre, 

here are the links to the photos

http://michaelsbookshop.com/617ramsgate/id3.htm

http://michaelsbookshop.com/617ramsgate/id4.htm

Not as many as some years as I was in Folkestone this morning and didn’t get to Ramsgate until fairly late in the afternoon.

Please appreciate that these pages of about 100 photos copied straight from my camera onto the internet unedited are just snapshots aimed at people who can’t get to the event or can’t get around at all.

Here is the link to the books that went out in the bookshop on Saturday http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/  

Bucket and Spade Ramsgate Run 2012 photos

Click on the links for the pages of photos, they are publishing to the internet now so it may be about half an hour before they all appear there.

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2012/

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2012/id2.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2012/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2012/id4.htm

I wasn’t there for very long, haven’t seen the pictures yet so sorry for any bad ones fraid I have other commitments today but did my best in the short time available. 

Margate Meltdown Mouse and Ramsgate Bucket and Spade Thanet’s Gasoline Jubilee Weekend and a ramble.

Last years meltdown pictures including the antics of the Meltdown Mouse above to be found at the links below.

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/index.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id6.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id7.htm

the meltdown videos are embedded in this blog post

http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/margate-meltdown-2011-pictures.html

don’t ask me why but  Instead of arriving Whitsun Bank Holiday Monday the ride out to Margate will take place this coming Monday 4^th June 2012.

Ramsgate’s Bucket and Spade run is due to take place this Sunday 3^rd June 2012 and I will add to this post as I get time today.

Pictures of previous bucket and spade runners at the links below

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/index.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/id6.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id6.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id7.htm

Sorry about the lack of blogging on my part recently, it seems the Thanet Conservative group have now performed a U-turn and are accusing a Labour councillor of homophobia, see http://birchington.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/social-suicide.html not exactly sure what constitutes homophobia.

In this instance I also have to be careful not to be ageist but there is something strange about local pensioners talking about keeping backs to the wall and shirt lifters that I am not entirely sure qualifies.

The screenshot of Simon’s post about this needed a bit of a rethink, if you enlarge the picture by compulsive clicking you can see at a glance he seems to be calling Laura Sandys a communist. And thanks to the reader who sent it, well I thought it was funny too. 

One thing is certain and that is as Labour have gone down the diversity blog warden route then any of their remaining members that have the nerve to use internet social media should abide by these rules.

Whether it is sensible for the Conservative group to get involved in enforcing this is another matter.

Perhaps a directive to all councillors never to commit anything to writing, especially on the internet, in case the put their feet in their mouths would be best.  


The other side of the coin is that, we the voters, would like to hear a bit from our councillors, in terms of online comment, even if it is just to say the have been for a swim.

Apart from Simon Moores, there is very little web input from councillors at the moment, and virtually none on the blogs which is where most local people would look for it.

Mike Harrison has posted to say it wasn’t me wot done it see http://newingtonblogspot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fraping-and-dirty-tricks.html frankly in the context and way it was done, it look quite likely it wos him wot done it.

I have been looking at the world of cached pages and other bits of IT and can’t see how his facebook could easily have been compromised in quite the way he says it has.

I guess time and some sort of investigation would tell, though whether diverting police resources to who exactly called who a shirt lifter would either be sensible use of public money or result in anything at all remains to be seen.  

I guess a big problem here is that councillors, all councillors are supposed to represent us and a situation has developed where most councillors are not using the internet to communicate with us, the people they represent.

In one sense the internet could extend to the point of making councillors unnecessary as from a technological point of view it would be possible for all of us to vote on all issues before the council.

It is a bit like the situation I face in the book world, theoretically technology makes the book printed on paper redundant, if like me you read a lot, in practice doing this using the technology rather than the paper, eventually results in a series of stinking headaches. 

Bucket and Spade Old Motor Vehicle Run Ramsgate 2011 Pictures

These are straight off the camera card so some of them will be pretty bad as I am getting used to anew camera at the moment and haven’t mastered all of its buttons yet.

I will try to enhance them a bit tomorrow, I am afraid it was a case of rain stopped play for me.

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/index.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2011/id6.htm

Here are last year’s pictures

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id6.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id7.htm

Pictures of the historic vehicle bucket and spade run at Ramsgate July 2010

Here are the links to the first lot, there are more on other cameras and I will add them after this lot have published.

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id6.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id7.htm

as before there are over 500 in this first batch so it will be sometime before they have all published on the internet.

Just one other point, breakfast sandwich (bacon, egg and sausage) and a cup of coffee at the Lookout Café there, total cost £2.50.

Entrance to this event is free, so all in all a pretty cheap day out including food and drink.

Another page of pictures at http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id8.htm a big one I think.

Even more pictures at http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id9.htm no idea why the first few are so small

My children now have cameras and their perspective is a little different click on the link for an eight year olds view of the bucket and spade run http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id10.htm

Yes twins so this is the other ones view http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/bs2010/id11.htm