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I haven?t really got anything to blog about at the moment, well, anything interesting to blog about, so I won?t. If you are around Thanet this weekend then can I point you in the direction of Margate?s Big Weekend,?Kent’s Leading Air and Land Festival?.
This is another event I usually miss out on but I will [...]

On the This is Kent webiste there is a story today apparently showing the new Euroferries Express (formerly Bonanza Express) which will be running the much delayed service between Ramsgate and Boulogne. I say apparently as there have already been mocked up photos circulating for some time and this one very much resembles this one [...]

 
Yesterday was the first day of the 2009 Planet Thanet Easter Beer Festival and I am still alive today to tell you about it which is a good thing. It?s great to see something like this succeeding and pulling in such a crowd, with not just locals, but many people travelling some distance to sample [...]

I saw a little snippet of a report on the BBC morning news today about a town in Shropshire that has implemented a loyalty card scheme in order to increase footfall and keep people shopping local and I wondered to myself if something like that would work for our local towns?
I?ve just googled and found [...]

As promised in yesterday?s post here are my photos from the Margate Big Sky Beach Cross Weekend. I took quite a few and it made a change to be taking photos of something different. I put a slideshow below or you can see the photos on my Flickr page.

This is courtesy of Belle in the comments section in one of my previous Euroferries posts:
LAUNCH OF FAST FERRY SERVICE
FROM RAMSGATE TO BOULOGNE
Euroferries are pleased to announce the commencement of its fast ferry cross channel service on 31st March 2009 with the introduction of its first vessel ‘Bonanza Express’ being operated in partnership with Fred [...]

Something that?s happened for the past few years, but I?ve never managed to go to is the Quad Racing Association Margate Big Sky Beach Cross Weekend, or QRAMBSBC for short, or how about just the Quad Bike thingy at Margate. Yet again it seems to be something that has sneaked up on me, and I [...]

On Monday night a cargo ship shed its 1,500 tonne load of timber into the sea and over the last couple of days it?s been washing up on the Thanet coast where I live. This morning I had the chance to pop down the seafront with my camera and took quite a few snaps as [...]

I?m not sure how many of you know that Ramsgate Harbour has its own webcam that transmits 24 hours a day. If you watch the actual stream it?s not very interesting as it only refreshes every 15 seconds, but if someone sets up something clever and captures the images for 24 hours and makes a [...]

I?ve had quite a few visits to the blog these past few days with people wanting to know more about Euroferries service between Ramsgate and Boulogne, and the comments left have not all been completely positive about whether this will actually happen, with even Stephen Ladyman saying ?we need to keep our fingers crossed that no [...]