Flicking through the Thanet Times that Mr Ceaucescu (no relation) left on the coffee table yesterday, I thought I was going to have to take the old glass eye in for a service.
Here's page 11:
And here's page 12:
I know there's not much happening on the Ile at the moment, but really!
Thanet Council votes for compulsory purchase of listed building on Ramsgate front which was demolished by developers.Click here for more.
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Maybe you see yourself aloof in a class of your own, many an anthem sung around the dinner tables of Islington in support of the Prol's until they come too close for comfort. Is that you ECR? - Anonymous
The last weeks planning applications
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Ed. The TDC planning website is one of the most bizarre websites I have ever
come across in as much as the web addresses of the pages on it change after
a ...
TRAFFIC TALES FROM HAINE ROAD - THUMBS UP TO TESCOS
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The campaign to get "Old" Haine Road closed or with serious traffic calming
meausres continues. Local residents have had letters in the papers. The
histor...
Derby Arms, Ramsgate
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I play in a pool league on Thursdays for the Wheatsheaf pub in Ramsgate and
although it’s good to get out on a weeknight, have few beers, play some
pool, a...
Westwood Cross a year later.
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It was a year ago today that Thanet Star published Thanet's Reaction to
Westwood Cross.
Opinion was very much divided on if Westwood cross (AKA WC) was a ...
Than.net monthly historical article Snipet
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5 July 1974- THANET HYPERMARKET- IS IT BOOM OR DOOM?
The battle over whether or not Thanet should have a hypermarket was still
raging yesterday with the...
Margate Harbour Mudlarks
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Mudlark is a name generally associated with the River Thames and dates from
a time when people living through the harsh economic times of the 18th &
19th ...
March of the Flu
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Yesterday's 'flu-like' symptoms may indeed have been an advanced case of
hypochondria bought on by the BBC News but the media is now giving us a
sense of i...
The ethics of pollution
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Ethical marketing is increasingly a potent force within business: in 2003
Texaco the world's second-largest oil company was fined hundreds of millions
of...
Jet Carter
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Behold last week's pithy missive from Mrs. Earplugs to Paul Carter FC via
his blog on the KCC website:
"You say you understand that Boris doesn't want a th...
Cartoonists unleashed!
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Occasionally I put down my pens, get on a train to London and socialise with other cartoonists. And a right good laugh we invariably have as well. Here's me ...
How's your kidneys?
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Well I hope.Don' t want to lose those I'd guess.Back and forwards to the hospital. Maybe a dialysis machine at home. If things are really bad then waiting fo...
IN THE BLUE/GREY CORNER AND IN THE RED CORNER?
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What a nice storm in the proverbial tea-cup! A report on Mark Nottingham's
blog attracts some hilarious comments that contain more than a grain of
truth...
Tory contradictions
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Julian Brazier - Supportive of Manston/KIA/Infratil who have begged TDC to
allow night flights, but totally against night flights when speaking in
parliam...
Sleaford Mods
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Friday night was a fine evening of entertainment in Margate. We had a very
nice meal of beef stifado at Bebeached which gave us views of one of a
brillian...
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Feeding the weeds in the yard this evening to the sound of something
sizeable taxiing around up at the airfield, it occured to me that there
might have bee...
Tudor House
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Tudor House
Originally uploaded by KatherinelvJackson
Thought I would share this with you.
I love this house and feel that it is not loved enough.
If y...
Up At The Crack Of Dawn.
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Possibly not scotching the lesbian rumours with that header, I have, in
fact, been up since sunrise, gathering all my bits together for a weekend of
music,...
Ramsgate Town Council
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Ramsgate Town Council – First 30 Days - Mayor's report for June 09
It’s been a good month for Ramsgate, starting with the inaugural meeting of
the new Cou...
Relocation, relocation, relocation
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The "8 Hours of Peace and Quiet" Campaign has returned to the welcoming arms
of its original home at:
*planesoverhernebay.blogspot.com*
There you will f...
Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy
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Are You Being Served was one of the quintessential British comedies, being
part sitcom, part music hall and a lot of double entendre. The cast was
wonderfu...
Cargo figures up
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Despite the loonies out there, claiming to know about aviation, KIA is
quietly "getting on with business", showing a rise in recent freight figures
and buc...
Steam Fayre, Preston
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We went to the Steam Fayre at Preston yesterday afternoon (it is still on today) as the littleuns spots have gone down and after being cooped up for a few da...
Manston Matters
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I attended Friday nights meeting of KIACC at Manston that was wrongly
advertised as “tonight's night flight blight meeting “ ECR or “one more
reason to go ...
Apologies
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Just a quick note to give my apologies for lack of recent posting, but its
haymaking time, and I can assure you all the last thing I feel like doing
when ...
Skywatch from Margate
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Lazy summer days and the poppys have grown in the fields.Blue sky and
sunshine have been the order of the day at Margate this week
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Coming soon, Margate Big Sky Jazz Festival 24th, 25th & 26th July.
24th Nigel Kennedy at the Winter Gardens Margate with his tribute to Miles
Davis: Tick...
Swine Flu Pandemic declared by The WHO!
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Not that WHO - although it would have been quite amusing if Roger Daltrey
had told us that he hadn't been working on old material and was really one
of the...
12 days away in France...
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*Dulce Et Decorum Est*
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares...
Voting
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I got to my local polling station at Margate bowls club in good time this
morning, very nice there too, certainly a bit more up market than the
building in...
Northdown Road Fire
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One of my Margate-living colleagues pointed out that the properties
destroyed by this fire included an arcade owned by... drum roll... a certain
owner of f...
WHAT A VICTORY!
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Just a short post after a long break, but I just have to congratulate
everybody involved in the Gurkha Victory. They are very good soldiers,
supportive of ...
LOCAL radio ?
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Listening to our two local radio stations as I drive round the County, I was
struck by a couple of points..
1) Invicta has started to not even mention "Inv...
Rebranding Margate – the pink £ or the children?
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They got Margate so wrong on the Apprentice (BBC 1) last night – hardly
their fault. They had less than 48 hours and they do not know the town –
it is no...
Margate on the telly
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I’m dreading it but it’s a ‘must see’. The Apprentice, Wednesday 9 pm on
BBC1. Also, just found this amusing video
http://www.jeremyjacobs.com/2009/05/06/t...
Interview: Kate Jackson
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Name: Kate Jackson
Title of work: Embankment
Where do you live?
Trinity Square, Margate
When was the work that's in the show taken?
Various dates but ma...
Thanet MPs split on Gurkhas
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Last night the Government was defeated on a Lib Dem led motion on Gurkhas
right to settle in this country. As I posted last time, its a disgrace that
the G...
Instant torpor
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Dear reader, how I have missed our little tête-à-têtes. Or more strictly speaking, doigts-aux-yeux, but that sounds much less cosy. There has been a deathly ...
Under New Managment
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Thanet Leisure has been taken over !!!!
Brand new owners, brand new reporter.
Not living up to its previous hype we are back !!!!
Launching soon, This...
Hello
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Hello my name is Widget Beranger, I want to be your next MP.
I have spent seven years running a dog training school and now think that
Nasa flights from Ma...
Kent Labour Politics on Local TV
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What with all this controversy over local internet TV, it seems that local
Labour activists, have taken the first step in producing internet TV
content, w...
Aliens: "Don't build Kingsnorth 2"
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"Like don't burn the coal, dude. It's baaad"
IN A CASE of life imitating a crap remake of an old B-movie, it appears that
aliens, imitating the the s...
Bah Humbug
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I can't believe that it has already been a month since my last post. I am
not going to bore you with the sordid details, but it has been a pretty
miserable...
BROADSTAIRS BEACH CLOSURES ANNOUNCED
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*Minnis Bay - Margate (Main Sands)*: variable. weather permitting; small
dogs (as defined in Schedule II, Foreshore Flotsam & Jetsam Regs.) between
the...
A greater say in how our streets are policed
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Thanet has become the first area in Kent to trial new ways of making its
police force more accessible and effective.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has confirm...
delayed.....having a laugh...or what!
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Yes, it seems as though I published the second birthday 'romp' and then *disappeared
*for 2 weeks. As those of you that know me; there are times when time f...
Andy Warhol's TV in LIMBO - Substation Art Space
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Andy Warhol’s TV*
In 2006 Limbo Arts founder Paul Hazelton found and bought Andy Warhol’s old
Philco Predicta television set in a Margate second-hand sh...
Much of the reason we experience noise on landing over Ramsgate is because training flights are precisely that. Half the time the pilots get too low and have to put their engines on... They are training and get it wrong! - Local pilot
Cyber Nerd Has Pop At Isle In Posion (sic) Blog Entry - Thanet Times
He should spend less time hiding behind a computer - Councillor Steve Ward, Mayor of Ramsgate
I visit from time to time looking for a sign of some redeeming feature, talent or achievement from its author but sadly I can find none! - Dr Simon Moores, Thanet Life
We're talking about a schollboy humour weblog at the edge of teh known world - Dr Simon Moores, Thanet Life
A middle class patronising pratt, unloved by Mummy and Daddy who feel he has to explain things to the people of Thanet because we're too thick to understand current events - Anonymous
Without his relentless fictional content about me, much of his blog simply wouldn't exist - Dr Simon Moores, Thanet Life
The worst offender for misinformation - Nick Laister, Save Dreamland Campaign
I'm f*cked off with left wing c*nts like you - Anonymous
I like your blog - Nick Dorman, The People
Your site is becoming the only genuine opinion site for Thanet! - 'Died (sic) In The Wool Tory'
A great source of reliable information against the tide of flannel in the local rags - Mr Dickens, Broadstairs
The living, gloating, metaphor of all that's wrong with our society - Dr Simon Moores, Thanet Life
Milks things for all they are worth - Matt B, Thanet Star
The Isle of Thanet's premier blog - Bertie Biggles, Thanet Strife
My fave blogger! - Tom Betts, yourthanet
East Kent Richard... the local blogging king - Jane Wenham Jones, Isle of Thanet Gazette
Legendary - Ray Parker, KCC Councillor for Northfleet and Gravesend West
I do enjoy your work - Iain Aitch
It may be crap, but your self congratulatory hype is hugely entertaining - Anonymous
In Ramsgate, Eastcliff Richard punning on the town’s division into East and West Cliffs takes the palm, its witty creator concealed behind the persona of a media moghul who might, to judge from accompanying sketch, have been played by Terry Thomas. - Country Life
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Picture the scene, new editor and staff taking on the Canterbury based production team to get the blame laid squarely. Oh to be a fly on the wall.
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