Click to Expand, Broadstairs Folk Week by Open Top Bus from Ramsgate and some Thanet History and a ramble

One way of going to Folk Week is on the open top bus.

I go to do a bit of sketching, take a few photos, enjoy the atmosphere and music.

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On to the local history pictures 

Flying boat Margate C1932

On to the ramble from Michael's Bookshop here in Ramsgate. As you would expect we are selling a lot of fiction for holiday reading. Over time, reading fiction on a device instead of a book seems to be in decline. This means we are fairly busy, there are not many other reasonably cheap sources of quality fiction in the county of Kent. At the same time there has been a decline in some sorts of non fiction, dictionaries, encyclopaedias and other non fiction where one book covers a broad area don't really sell now. 

Drawing of Grace Jones

I haven't had a lot of spare time for art I did do this freehand A5 pen sketch, loosely based on a photo by Helmut Newton - Grace Jones And Dolph Lundgren, 1985 and it went down well on the various art Facebook groups I posted it to.

Our Children's book section has been particularly busy recently, so if someone tells you that young people don't read books here in Ramsgate I can confirm that they are wrong.

Link to the latest books put out in Michael's Bookshop Ramsgate