Skin of Stars

Two days later and its New Years Eve and I was working. I’ll admit that this was a night that I wasn’t looking forward to. I always feel this night of all nights is the biggest of disappointing nights of the year. There again, I think I can just be a misery sometimes, which was something I did well on … Read the remaining 369 words

I spent time in Ramsgate today (Saturday). You really can’t get much more bizarre than that town. My vision of the place had been blurred. I always thought of Ramsgate as a cool town on the coast but today I was reminded otherwise. I was a lost puppy, a fish out of water, an old cat in an old town.. … Read the remaining 483 words

I was recently lucky enough to have a private invitation to the Gadds brewery. I knows the guys from my time at the pub (finished that today, whoop!) and after they heard me banging on about their stout they said I could come up and see their place at work. I learnt a lot about brewing while I was there … Read the remaining 116 words

A couple of posts back I stated that Eddie was a stout pusher… but I love him for it. The reason I said this was as simple as the statement. While I was at the jazz festival on Ramsgate seafront the other week I went to the Gadds tent to get myself another beer, but he had run out. What … Read the remaining 256 words

The Wikipedia articles of Ramsgate and Margate have been recommended for the Wikipedia CD Selection. At the moment, the seclection only has just over 2000 atricles on it. So it’s pretty neat for our local towns to be chosen out of 1,291,557 english language articles (02/08/06). The problem is that the articles need more work. I know Adem of the … Read the remaining 59 words

The Marxmen My g/f came down from East Gringstead to visit me yesterday. It was great to see her and as a treat I took her on a Marxist tour of Ramsgate as run by Simon Mores(?) who is running the Magical Marxist exhibition up at IOTA. I really never knew how much time Marx spent in Ramsgate. About ten … Read the remaining 237 words