Monday, May 12, 2008

Tour De Thanet

Whilst some people may be disappointed to learn that I'm not a 'welfare sponger with a political axe to grind', I am, nonetheless, a barely employed celebrity millionaire with an old throbber to thrash. So this afternoon I whipped it out and took a sunshine tour of our lovely tip of Kent.

It seems the old dirt track in King George VI Park has had the tarmac treatment and is now a bit of a cycle path (the old jokes are best). On to Boredstares, where York Gate has now been repaired following lorry damage a few weeks back. Still no height restriction sign there, though. Harpers Wine Bar looks to be in action again until midnight most evenings, after their contretemps with the licensing authorities a while back.

The de-duallling of Fart Hill in Margate seems to be causing the odd jam.

New 3 tonne weight limit signs on the ramp over the underground khazis are presumably there to prevent the town gaining an unplanned, er, bog hole.

Margate sands baking in the sun. A litter picker's work is never done, given that most Margatonians seem to regard anything more than a two foot treck to the bin with their garbage as something only a person with the fortitude and stamina of Sir Ranulph Fiennes might undertake.

Droit House looking its loveliest. What a shame the clock's only right twice a day! Still, on the bright side, I was in Margate for at least an hour and I didn't spot a single fire.

16 comments:

Lucy Mail said...

Shame about that tarmac in the park. I used to enjoy riding my bicycle back through there, from Broadstairs, in the dark, without worrying too much about skinning my face in the event of a sudden fuel (alcohol) surge.

Anonymous said...

Glad to see that tarmac go in in the park in Ramsgate. It's a great cycle route and one that I now feel more encouraged to ride along now there's an improved surface. Similar treatment applied to the cycle route at Minnis Bay by the way.


Nick, Whits

Michael Child said...

I shall be extra wary of throbber thrashers when negotiating King George VI

Anonymous said...

Take a look at this. Would the Thanet Groat, Dollar, Pound work here?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/7392286.stm

Anonymous said...

Droit House does look fab and I look forward to the Harbour Arm opening. I do hope something is to be done about the smell though. It will certainly put people off sitting there.

Anonymous said...

Me Too..I saw the diggers dragging the rotting sludge from the harbour arm and putting it the other side?????The fisherman told me that the problem could easily be solved by OPENING UP THE SLUCE GATE!!If anybody from the council would like to reply why this isnt done i would be grateful..(also the farmers always used to put it on their fields-I am sure it would be better than the chicken shite the use!)otherwise this problem is not going to go away..

Michael Child said...

1.22 Due to government legislation, seaweed is now counted as industrial waste and must be treated accordingly. This is not as daft as it first sounds as it leaches heavy metals out of the sea and with much of Thanet’s farmland over our drinking water supply we don’t want to poisoned.

Anonymous said...

ok Michael thank you for that,what about opening the sluice gate then?

Michael Child said...

Same in Ramsgate we have two sluice gates to keep the harbour clear of sand, this worked perfectly for nearly 200 years, it means you only have to dredge the inner basin to allow enough depth of water for the boats in it to stay off the bottom when part of the water in it is used to scour the outer basin of sand.

Instead the council now use expensive and fairly ineffective dredgers and we pay the bill.

Anonymous said...

I understood that the ban from putting it on the farmland has been recinded and that now we are allowed to.

Michael Child said...

That’s news to me do you have a source for that information?

Anonymous said...

It's gossip but I will try and find a firmer confirm (er?)

Anonymous said...

Try this one:

http://www.ace.abertay.ac.uk/Site/Seaweed.htm

I will explore further.

Anonymous said...

http://www.thanetcoast.org.uk/docs/9_Species_Management_0407.doc

Page 9. This document says that application to farmland is restricted so maybe my info is false. It wouldn't be the first time.

Anonymous said...

http://www.thanetcoast.org.uk
/docs/9_Species_Management_0407.doc

Anonymous said...

Anyway if they're so worried about contamination of local water supplies, why are they plugging a bloody great development on water catchment area?