tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20691138.post7690898561194399129..comments2023-12-21T00:14:07.455+00:00Comments on <center>EASTCLIFF RICHARD</center>: Grow Your Own Turnip CentreRichard Eastcliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514972891192411470noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20691138.post-392382058035129792007-03-22T20:04:00.000+00:002007-03-22T20:04:00.000+00:00I see your Turnip Centre has one more visitor than...I see your Turnip Centre has one more visitor than the real one is likely to get.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20691138.post-18580247386587119652007-03-21T00:14:00.000+00:002007-03-21T00:14:00.000+00:00And another thing, if we can't poke fun at some of...And another thing, if we can't poke fun at some of the more misguided attempts at regenerating the place we might as well all go and live in bloody Brighton.<BR/><BR/>Pass us the Krug, Elton.Richard Eastcliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10514972891192411470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20691138.post-24363258182563430502007-03-20T23:27:00.000+00:002007-03-20T23:27:00.000+00:00I would never do Kent's Ramsgate Peninsula down. M...I would never do Kent's Ramsgate Peninsula down. Merely Margate.<BR/><BR/>No, seriously, I love Thanet, and would dearly like to see it do better in the world. It's got so much going for it, it's a shame it's been so neglected over the years. In fact that's what makes me truly angry, to see what was once such a glorious part of the world suffering from the incompetence and ineptitude of local, county and national government, and the greed of local property owners and developers who only want to get their snouts in the trough.<BR/><BR/>There. I've said it. I've had a couple of glasses of wine. Er...Richard Eastcliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10514972891192411470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20691138.post-20921833889455712212007-03-20T22:44:00.000+00:002007-03-20T22:44:00.000+00:00Oh what a wealth of pithy wit on here. Very amusin...Oh what a wealth of pithy wit on here. Very amusing indeed, and may it long continue! BUT I do think it's important that we don't continually pour scorn on serious attempts to lift modern day Thanet out of its self-perpetuating mire. Doing a place down, even in jest, becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. (It is funny none-the-less!).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20691138.post-50816016118838152782007-03-20T13:56:00.000+00:002007-03-20T13:56:00.000+00:00I remember I used to bump into old T S in Franks e...I remember I used to bump into old T S in Franks every Thursday night during the 80s. Oh how he used to joke and dance, especially when Hi Ho Silver Lining came on at the end of the evening.<BR/><BR/>I bumped into him once by the clocktower, he was wearing a kiss-me-quick hat and sucking on a stick of Margate rock. "Hello T S," I said. "How's it hanging?"<BR/><BR/>"Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, had a bad cold," came the reply. I surmised that his visit to the end of the pier had ended in disappointment.The Angina Monologueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17094114918918372299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20691138.post-40897601841549904122007-03-20T12:35:00.000+00:002007-03-20T12:35:00.000+00:00It's a little known fact that there are many refer...It's a little known fact that there are many references to Margate in The Wasteland by T S Eliot. For example:<BR/><BR/><I>Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel, <BR/>And here is the one-eyed merchant</I><BR/><BR/>is clearly a reference to One-Eyed Pete the Carny Man, who erected a big wheel on the Dreamland site last year.<BR/><BR/>Similarly:<BR/><BR/><I>On Margate Sands. I can connect Nothing with nothing.</I><BR/><BR/>speaks for itself, really, as does:<BR/><BR/><I>Burning burning burning burning</I>Richard Eastcliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10514972891192411470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20691138.post-65181764077203401312007-03-20T11:03:00.000+00:002007-03-20T11:03:00.000+00:00By late October 1921 the Eliots were installed at ...By late October 1921 the Eliots were installed at the Albermarle Hotel and breathing the perfumed air of Cliftonville<BR/><BR/>ahh the kababsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com