Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Separated At Birth?

Reader Samantha writes:

Has anyone noticed the similarity between The Great Wall of Ramsgate, as pictured in a new paperback called The English Seaside by Peter Williams, and published by English Heritage...

The Great Wall of Ramsgate

And this, The Great Wall of Ramsgate as depicted in your blog on April 27....

Are they by any chance related?

Hmmm. Interesting question, Samantha. I see English Heritage states in its blurb for the book: 'For too long the English seaside has suffered from a bad press, accused of being tatty, cold, grey and windswept, but Peter Williams finds the seaside to be warm-hearted and welcoming, about having fun, riding the rides and seeing the shows.'

Well, the rides went long ago, the cold and grey has got colder and greyer, the tatty tattier, and as for the being windswept, I see we're being warned about stonking great gusts tomorrow! Pip pip!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The new Mayor to detail the plans for the town?

Anonymous said...

ECR I don't think you should even think about translating the comment from anon 2.58.

Richard Eastcliff said...

It's gone straight in the bin!

Anonymous said...

Kent in the papers for all the wrong reasons again with Latchford and UKIP.

His one policy on repealing gay marriages is both irrelevant and not viable for years if at all.

Anyone know any gay muslim jokes to keep the UKippers happy?