In Which I Go to Thanet

Another fie morning in which i shall be travelling towards the Isle of Thanet , although as you travel towards Margate and Ramsgate , you would hardly notice it as it is silted up at the Wantum  Channel which becomes the river Wantsum and  separates the island from the main part of Kent , the area where the I Wantsum beer company comes from.

More on today's journey when i get back.

My tweets

• Fri, 12:59: i have a tiger in my tank and it is a Bengali Tiger from @sixpoint brewery Brooklyn
• Fri, 13:02: ff #@sixpoint craft ale supremo
• Fri, 21:12: Free Books Revisited http://t.co/NkpYfgZSbR
• Fri, 23:58: The Coll Scene jazz download http://t.co/XcMlCWOteT
• Sat, 08:21: Still moving upwards on LJ, slowly, another 38 places up to position 2396
• Sat, 08:23: Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy is back on the Radio and as a game and app
• Sat, 08:24: I do not usually play games but i might play that one #HHGTHG
• Sat, 08:30: Archive on 4 - Delia Derbyshire - pioneer of electronic sound http://t.co/PbP9GxTX6t
• Sat, 08:32: So not just sticking your finger in the ear - How Folk Songs Should Be Sung http://t.co/jEpOzdOryR
• Sat, 08:37: Folk singer John Tams looks at the Luddites and the songs they inspired http://t.co/6KHCQSkMVu

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Ramsgate and Broadstairs Visit

A frustrating journey back from Thanet, not helped by the fact that i had missed the last bus to my village by five minutes and having to travel by train with one train breaking down making me wait a further hour before i could get home. Happy I was not.

However, i did find some great CD's and a LP and a couple of books on my journey today. In Ramdgate I got these two for a quid each -



Henry Rollins Band - Weight (Imago)



Ulrich Schnauss - Missing Deadlines, Selected Remixes (Rocket Girl)

The two books were a quid each -






Plus this jazz funk fusion album i found in Canterbury for £1.50 by Don Pullen from 1977



It was a lovely sunny day though and i took a few pictures with the reliable Canon Ixus camera that i use.



I did two Travel shop visits buy the one in Broadstairs was closed. This picture is of the High Street leading down to the coast.



This is a pub in Broadstairs where i had a pint of I Wantsum Ravening Wolf (5.9 % ABV)



This hotel come restaurant use to have a famous author residing there when we has writing part of Nicholas Nickleby.





Finally, when i got back to Canterbury i bought some loose pipe tobacco for the pipe, this time vanilla flavoured. Plus a pint of beer at the pub opposite, a tasty Summerskills Bolthead (4.7 % ABV).

Selections From The Music Found Today

So what is the music like.

Well the jazz LP by Don Pullen is really quite funky. The track i have selected is Poodie Pie

The Ulrich Schnauss CD is a remix project of other artist's work which i have yet to listen to in full but from it i enjoyed the remix of The Mojave 3 - Bluebird  Of Happiness

From the Rollins Band CD "Weight" this more downtempo tune form what is  a hard hitting rock album, called Tired as the majority of the album is loud in yer face hardcore rock.