Do you know your old Thanet pubs? is it 2Q20? What is the mystery object?

 Thanet Pub 1

 Two photos of Thanet Pub 2

Thanet Pub 3

Question 4 what is this mystery item.

Next yesterday's answers

 Hare and Hounds Margate Road Ramsgate

 Demolition of The Granville Ballroom

 Clifton Baths, later The Lido Cliftonville

If you are familiar with modern literary fiction or magic realism or just an avid reader then you are probably familiar with Murakami's 1Q84, a parallel word where things are slightly different to 1984. Just now it seems to me that 2020 has become 2Q20 and I am waiting to wake up in the old normal world. It's not just coronavirus but Boris, Trump, BREXIT, climate change. Today is theoretically Sunday, which should be my day off, perhaps a bit of painting in Canterbury, maybe a bit of time in the Cathedral. As it was I put up a venetian blind in the kitchen, with a sort of feeling that the venetian blind may no exist in 2020, if I return there.

The coronavirus figures

#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Population
	World	4,771,676	+54,667	314,683	+1,781	1,843,824	2,613,169	44,811	612	40.4
1	USA	1,515,311	+7,538	90,332	+219	340,609	1,084,370	16,248	4,581	273	12,059,226	36,459	330,764,077
2	Russia	281,752	+9,709	2,631	+94	67,373	211,748	2,300	1,931	18	6,916,088	47,394	145,926,952
3	Spain	277,719	+1,214	27,650	+87	195,945	54,124	1,152	5,940	591	3,037,840	64,977	46,752,605
4	UK	243,303	+3,142	34,636	+170	N/A	N/A	1,559	3,586	511	2,489,563	36,696	67,842,296
5	Brazil	233,648	+506	15,668	+35	89,672	128,308	8,318	1,100	74	735,224	3,462	212,372,688
6	Italy	225,435	+675	31,908	+145	125,176	68,351	762	3,728	528	3,004,960	49,691	60,472,408
7	France	179,365		27,625		61,066	90,674	2,132	2,749	423	1,384,633	21,218	65,256,039
8	Germany	176,628	+384	8,028	+1	153,400	15,200	1,203	2,109	96	3,147,771	37,585	83,751,395
9	Turkey	149,435	+1,368	4,140	+44	109,962	35,333	914	1,774	49	1,624,994	19,293	84,225,118
10	Iran	120,198	+1,806	6,988	+51	94,464	18,746	2,705	1,433	83	686,935	8,192	83,856,767
11	India	95,648	+5,000	3,025	+154	36,794	55,829		69	2	2,227,642	1,616	1,378,307,692
12	Peru	88,541		2,523		28,272	57,746	840	2,690	77	630,482	19,156	32,913,388
13	China	82,947	+6	4,633		78,227	87	10	58	3			1,439,323,776
14	Canada	76,944	+1,080	5,781	+102	38,463	32,700	502	2,041	153	1,347,287	35,736	37,700,962
15	Belgium	55,280	+291	9,052	+47	14,630	31,598	371	4,772	781	682,980	58,962	11,583,464
16	Saudi Arabia	54,752	+2,736	312	+10	25,722	28,718	202	1,576	9	586,405	16,878	34,744,365
17	Mexico	47,144	+2,112	5,045	+278	31,848	10,251	378	366	39	163,691	1,271	128,762,855

Do you know old Thanet? and the other stuff.

 Q1 do you recognise this Thanet pub?

 q2 Do you recognise this Thanet venue which is being demolished in the photo?

 Q3 relates of these four photos of Fairyland, once a significant Thanet attraction, do you know where it was?

Sorry about not posting much but I have been busy and have hardly looked at the internet this week, I guess I am expecting a long hall with coronavirus and am setting things up to fit in with that.

I think it fairly unlikely that we will be able to get the bookshop open again until sometime next year, certainly not before October. One of the main problems with a predominantly secondhand bookshop would be buying people's books. Another side of the coin is that we run the bookshop because we like doing so and not because we have to and I don't see turning up at people's houses in some sort of amature PPE as being much fun.

One of the things I am doing at the moment is pursuing my interest in physics and so I am modifying my study so that I can do this better. Unlike most sciences the electronics and electrical side of physics can be done at an ordinary desk, with some minor modifications.

I am particularly interested in anomalies in electromagnetic theory like Faraday's Paradox and in electronics some of the things where the explanation at a quantum level doesn't quite make sense to me.

Answers to my previous post's quiz.

 This is a milkman, Butcher's Dairy, probably Margate

Yesterday's pandemic figures below. Today's are also very bad here is the link it's very hard to know what to say, you can see what the UK should be doing...

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Population
	World	4,621,414	+99,405	308,154	+5,072	1,756,649	2,556,611	45,007	593	39.5
1	USA	1,484,285	+26,692	88,507	+1,595	327,751	1,068,027	16,139	4,488	268	11,090,900	33,532	330,758,784
2	Spain	274,367	+1,721	27,459	+138	188,967	57,941	1,320	5,868	587	2,467,761	52,783	46,752,556
3	Russia	262,843	+10,598	2,418	+113	58,226	202,199	2,300	1,801	17	6,413,948	43,953	145,926,781
4	UK	236,711	+3,560	33,998	+384	N/A	N/A	1,559	3,489	501	2,353,078	34,685	67,841,324
5	Italy	223,885	+789	31,610	+242	120,205	72,070	808	3,702	523	2,875,680	47,553	60,472,650
6	Brazil	218,223	+15,305	14,817	+824	84,970	118,436	8,318	1,028	70	735,224	3,462	212,368,566
7	France	179,506	+636	27,529	+104	60,448	91,529	2,203	2,751	422	1,384,633	21,219	65,255,646
8	Germany	175,699	+724	8,001	+73	151,700	15,998	1,294	2,098	96	3,147,771	37,585	83,750,665
9	Turkey	146,457	+1,708	4,055	+48	106,133	36,269	944	1,739	48	1,547,389	18,373	84,222,640
10	Iran	116,635	+2,102	6,902	+48	91,836	17,897	2,727	1,391	82	658,604	7,854	83,853,830
11	India	85,784	+3,787	2,753	+104	30,258	52,773		62	2	2,039,952	1,480	1,378,270,651
12	Peru	84,495	+3,891	2,392	+125	27,147	54,956	851	2,567	73	605,383	18,394	32,912,133
13	China	82,933	+4	4,633		78,209	91	11	58	3			1,439,323,776
14	Canada	74,613	+1,212	5,562	+90	36,895	32,156	502	1,979	148	1,225,049	32,495	37,700,059
15	Belgium	54,644	+356	8,959	+56	14,301	31,384	380	4,717	773	645,314	55,711	11,583,327