The Channel Coasts

This book i got from the charity shop that was chucking out books for free has been very useful in relating the history of the coastline. I used it yesterday on my travels down to Deal.

Another book from the same pile i sold for a tenner at Past Sentence on Tuesday.

Today i shall going to Sittingbourne and as it is a mere three miles away i shall walk in. 

My tweets

• Wed, 14:42: just had a nifty half of a craft beer from the States in Canterbury and now on bus to Deal
• Wed, 21:21: A Done Deal http://t.co/M8WWPKoGbe
• Thu, 10:20: Still going up on by 91 places to 2480 - yay!
• Thu, 10:20: Lovely day to be walking into Sittingbourne
• Thu, 10:32: The Channel Coasts http://t.co/x0pTRaIWqA

A Stout Day

It was a lovely sunny day and feels as though spring is here. I walked into the town of Sittingbourne , about three miles away and takes a leisurely hour to walk it.

I spent a couple of hours in the Office, then had a beer  at Spoons , and another gorgeous pint of the Oatmeal Stout was the one i quaffed to satisfy my thirst.



This was brewed in collaboration with the Caledonian Brewing Company

I found this You Tube clip on this beer -

Enjoy!

Sixpoint have released into the UK their canned beer range , and I had a sample at the West Gate Inn Wednesday night. The Bengali Tiger (6.4 % ABV)  is the one for me, and Matt Wickham, head beer snout at the Evening Star Brighton ,(my ex local) has highly recommended the Tiger one..



Today was World Book Day but I am looking forward to World Book Night on April 23.
 

Book 17 - Spike Milligan "Gunner Who?"

Spike Milligan "Gunner Who?" (BCA)




The second volume of Spike Milligan's war memoirs covers early 1943 during Operation Torch, with Spike's battery in Algeria and Tunisia. This volume is chock-a-block with entertaining anecdotes, good description, one or two very moving and poignant scenes, and some very, very bizarre interludes involving imagined dialogue between various German High Command officials, Mussolini, Churchill, even Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill (this one was my favourite).

Some of the humour may be a bit funnier if you have some knowledge of military matters, like this joke:

Excerpt from the Regiment Diary: "Battery to move to hide west of Gafour."
"Why do they keep hidin' us," says Chalky. "I'm not ashamed of being a gunner."
(a hide = a place of concealment for troops)

But otherwise an ordinary sense of humour is all you need (and perhaps a tolerance for naughty barracks-room jokes). You may also pick up an interesting fact or two.

This book written by a comedy genius was both marvelously funny and desperately sad at times. I thoroughly enjoyed the bit about the gun going over the edge as well.

Books to Be Completed Pile

Picked up a few Dr Who related books again whilst in Sittingbourne , and still need to finish the Dr Who and Philosophy book. It is among  the pile of "books to be completed", as separate from the books not read pile.   My life isn't that well organised on the whole, lol.