Treasure Island. A tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".

WESTGATE PAVILION Sea Road Westgate CT88QW

01843 835611

 

 

 

 

Family Show. A Children's Pantomime following the story of Treasure Island. A tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".
Great family fun. Simply choose your seat and pay. A brilliant way to spend a Saturday afternoon keeping the kids (and adults) entertained.

£8 on door subject to availabilty.
£7 if purchased week before subject to availability.
£6 if purchased two weeks before subject to availability
£5 EARLY BIRD Special up till 7/7/13

Thanet is Awesome!

Thanet is Awesome! A blog type newspaper online for Thanet  Go and have a look see, I did and I like it  so you might like it as well.

Charity Music Festival in Cliftonville

Hi folks I have only just heard about this festival being organised to raise awareness and funds for Dementia . If you wish to go along or better still sponsor the event get in touch with the organisers :-
0800 7813452
East Northdown Farm and Gardens Cliftonville JUNE 30th 11am - 6pm.

Tesco and Arlington House

There has been a lot of commotion on the local blogs Facebook and Twitter about Tesco getting the planning consent for a store at the bottom of Arlington House. I am all for it and think it is the best thing for the eyesore that currently is there. I can understand people not wanting it, to me it is a bit like waiting for root canal work on your teeth you know it will hurt but the end result will be OK. I have lived in Thanet for over thirty years and in all of that time the shop units there have never thrived. The location is not ideal for retail on that scale but Tesco is a tried and trusted retailer and people will come to them. I know this to some may sound two faced after promoting my local Nisalocal in the previous post but I do strongly believe we use both, maybe we rely a little to much on multi national's but thats life. The reason I am posting this is to put a but of perspective into this, I dont see Arlington's shops getting any better. The site is an eyesore and really not a credit to Margate and its residents. At least with Tesco going there it will be tidied up and look the part. Margate deserves better than what is there and I am looking forward to it opening.

Shop Local in Margate Broadstairs Ramsgate and Birchington

My wife is the chief cook and bottle washer in our house, my days of cooking etc. are long gone. I was banished from the kitchen when I became to big a liability and was endangering my life all for the sake of my pride. Well  I no longer cook or do much in the way of helping around the house but being disabled as I am gives me other talents and one of those is the ability to tell my wife how to keep house. Ouch I am rubbing my ear after she has just administered a resounding whack. No seriously there is a point to this post and if you are still reading I will get to it now.We received a leaflet from our local shop advertising all of their special offers, it dropped through the letter box and ended up on the table as I ate my breakfast and I got to thinking how hard small independent stores must be finding it. Everyone is trying to save a few pennies and .my wife was immediately miffed the Kit Kats she had bought in Tesco  could have been purchased closer to home for fifty pence a pack cheaper plus the hula hoops I have with my lunch were less. Well I know you cant win them all but if you add the cost of diesel into a trip to Tesco we could have saved even  more. So shopping local is not only convenient it can work out cheaper.. Those of you who live in Margate will know the shop I am talking about it is the Nisalocal in Upper Dane Road numbers 70 to 72 opposite the bakers and Rowlands the chemists. Upper Dane Road is also home to The Launderette a very very good fish and chip shop and a marvelous News Agents who are open until Near 11.00 oclock and he opens about six in the morning. Plus there is also a couple of Chinese Take Away's so you can tell I have all bases covered locally I will post some photos of these marvelous shops when I manage to get out again.
 So the moral to this post is Tesco and the like may be convenient but what you save in one hand they take away in the other. Find NisaLocal on Facebook and now I will Tweet about our one on Twitter @NisaLocally

Broadstairs on TV's homes under the hammer

I have just got home from hospital and no sooner am I in the door and put the telly on Broadstairs is beaming out of the screen at me. House sales may be a little slower at the moment but with the advent of 5%  mortgage deposits and the Governments new scheme I can see the market gaining a little traction. I thought on my journey home there is a fair bit of building works being undertaken and anyone who is consider any building jobs now would be be the end of cheap builders being around. I spent many years in the building trade and in times of plenty of work many local tradesmen worked out of Thanet. I myself was ofter driving to London at 4.30 am but when the work dried up I was in the same local pool as all of those like myself scratching  for jobs locally. Many of my friends still in the trade are working for less than the were for five years ago. So with the new green shoots my advice to anyone would be if you are considering undertaking building jobs now is the time to get them done.