Ramsgate lifeboat photos from about 10 years ago

 I think this batch of Ramsgate photos must date from around 10 years ago, when Rank were patching up the Pav

Is the unexamined life worth living? OK I know a bit Socratic, and in the "what am I For" ballpark which is a bit on the uncomfortable front. With me it's much more; is the unrecorded life worth living? Hence the local history, the photos and most of all the sketching, to me the past is what I have apart from of course the present - writing this word now and so it's history when you read it.

Dont worry, it's just too wet to go out, take photos so I'm a bit introspective, anyway at some time about 10 years ago, it had obviously rained and I must have exited to take the photos.

Update, the rain stopped in the evening and I did get out for a bit of painting and a few photos to confirm I was alive today to a future me

Here is the link to the photos

Watercolour Paining in Canterbury today, Margate Lifeboats and other old Thanet pictures

 Quiver lifeboat, strictly speaking the Margate Lifeboats were surf boats 
Correction from Michael Cates Michael One of the photos has a note suggesting Margate boats were "Surf Boats" not "Lifeboats". The boat in the photo is Quiver and is a 'proper' National Lifeboat institution (soon to be Royal NLI) with watertight aircases and because it was a pulling and sailing boat capable of deep water and longer distance rescues. the equivalent of All Weather Lifeboats today. The surfboats - like Friend to All Nations - were not (R)NLI designs and were much lighter and neither watertight nor self-righting.

 Eliza Harriet at Whitstable 1889

 Wm. Pull 1847-1948

 Paddy Walker 1872-1948

From Google maps for the picture above it

 Bookbuying in Canterbury today, there is a bit of an irony here inasmuch as as while Canterbury has a very good bookshop for antiquarian and collectable books it just doesn't have a general secondhand independent bookshop. Which means in many cases the books I bought in Canterbury today will be bought by people in Canterbury coming to Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate to buy them.

 I think the relentless demise of reasonably good shops where ordinary items are for sale at prices that compete with the internet is impacting on our quality of life.

 One of the other thing I go to Canterbury for is civilised afternoon tea

Opposite Chocolate Cafe, La Trappiste which had metomorphasised into Deakin & Co when I started this watercolour sketch has now become The Drapers Arms. Fortunately the sketch is on Bockingford NOT paper so I was able to scrub the old sign off and put the new one on.

No photos of Canterbury today due to the inclement whether however

This is a link to some I prepared earlier

For those in need of a reasonably priced book about René Descartes or Edvard Munch,

this is the link to the books that went out yesterday

I was listening to a lecture about Confucius's philosophy earlier when the lady academic called something, taxiomicart, I've no idea how you spell it but that was what it sounded like, anyone know what the word means?