World Toilet Day 2009 Millions around the world exist without the most basic of personal hygiene items a toilet. Millions of others dont have access to clean water. Today is world toilet day and the year is 2009 makes you wonder

Skywatch Friday

A recent sunset turned the clouds red over Margate we get some beautiful skies over Thanet, The artist JMW Turner said 'the skies over Thanet are the loveliest in all Europe'. We will be getting the Turner Contemporary art gallery and exhibition in the next year or so and Margate old Town is becoming the cultural centre for artists and with a range of galleries, cafes & niche shops. is becoming a great place to be.


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Feed the birds day

feed the birds day strange title for a two day event. The RSPB are hosting events up and down the country to remind us how vital it is to supply food and shelter this time of the year.There is much we can do to help our feathered friends from simple log and twig piles left out over winter to spreading hi energy food for them. Every little counts read the page and get a few ideas for your own wild space.

Will it be on time

Copy of email in my inbox its only taken them six weeks to reply to a simple question

Dear Don,

We thank you for contacting Euroferries it has taken a long time to launch but we are finally there.

Services commence on 14th November and bookings can be made online www.euroferries.co.uk

Cars, day trips, foot passengers, vans, motor homes and caravans can be booked online.

Thank you once again for taking the time to contact us.

Kind Regards,

Hannah
Customer Services

Draper Mill Margate

Recent pictures of Drapers Mill Margate.For more wind mill pictures click here. The seasons are changing.View skies from around the world atSKYWATCH FRIDAY

National Lobster Hatchery Cornwall

I first foumd out about the National Lobster Hatchery Cornwall while watching Three Men in a boat on BBC earlier this year. Here is an update and a release map CAN BE FOUND HERE Have a quick look

BITCHY REPORTING?

I never liked the spice girls or all that girlpower stuff but the MailOnline article I just read got my goat up Geri Halliwell brought credit crunch chic to the red carpet last night - when she recycled an old dress.

Seven years after she first wore the two-tone purple and blue velvet halterneck gown to the Oscars, Geri gave it another airing at a charity fashion show in London.

There was no doubt the former Spice Girl, 37, fills out the vintage dress much better this time round.

nice article good charity bad reportingREAD IT HEREGood on her for having the sense and guts to do it its about the charity but the reporter has gone for the headline shame on them "By Lizzie Smith and Emily Sheridan"

ROLL UP ROLL UP BY SCRATCH CARDS ON WAY TO SCHOOL

I try not to pinch other peoples thunder but the Dickie and Sam show hi lighted something I think further debate Sam mention this and apologies for cut and paste but beats the typing and seeing as my typing is under scrutiny I thought best make an effort More than £175,000 worth of Lottery funding will be coming to Thanet to help improve anti-social behaviour and relationships between the generations. The money, from the Big Lottery Fund's Reaching Communities Programme, has been awarded to the Children's Society to run the Thanet Participation Project over the next two years and will pay for a new project to run in Dane Valley, Newington, Whitehall and Birchington. Hopefully that'll stop the little bastards running amuck. I did a quick google search coss I overheard on todays radio the largest growth in gambleing addiction is under the 25 year olds here is a link to 2008 telepgraph article entitled One million children are addicted to gambling under New Labour's lenient gaming laws, say experts
READ IT HERE ONE MILLION CHILDREN ADDICTED TO GAMBLING

Skywatch Friday this weeks offering

The sky changes so fast this time of the year sunset to suns over in a few short minutes we were not alone in wanting to capture Gods creation as you can see my wife captured another picturey taker with the same idea as us, a feww minues later all was black over Margate. This is where Margate BIG EVENT airshow is held each year at Cliftonville.you can just make out the photographer in the darkest picture

Nigel Slater's Simple suppers

I have been a fan of the BBC's show Nigel Slater's Simple suppers since it started,he is good value and talks sense not like a lot of TV foodies. He grows good in his back garden which harks back to the fifties and sixties. Far from being old fashioned growing your own or having an allotment is getting to be trendy even Saint Pauls in Northdown road Have got their own allotment as the piccies show weeds grow faster than humans can keep up with removing them. Nigel Slater is a fan of the BBC's dig in campaign and I would love to see primary children taught to grow things in school and then go home and their mums or dads cook simple suppers like the ones on the TV.BBC NIGEL SLATERS SIMPLE SUPPERS TDC unlike most councils have allotment splaces give em a ring or CLICK HERE FOR TDC ALLOTMENT PAGE

Birds are back

Its been a long summer and now the birds seem to be back in the garden these are the first shots we have go of the parakeets since spring, They are so adorable but I have heard in places they have become so prolific they are being culled. Forgot to say we got another camera and the wife is still playing with all the nobs and twisty bits