Off to Thanet

Going to a village i have not been to before ,and that is Minster-in-Thanet. I ave a mystery shop there and then a couple in Deal. Weather is warm and sunny but not s hot as it was in Saturday. A breezy 23 degrees C today.

Back From Minster

Minster is a lovely picturesque village in the heart of Kent , and not that far from Ramsgate. I took quite a few photos to be uploaded later plus i found a great little micropub called Hair Of The Dog.

(Note - there is also a Minster on the Isle of Sheppey, near Sheerness, which is not as pretty. Actually quite dour!)

I was going to do Deal as well, but time just flew by, and since bus journeys to the village are quite infrequent, i shall do Deal another day.

I think i enjoyed myself too much in the micropub to do any other job today. It sure is a friendly little place to enjoy a pint in or maybe two.

So, i am currently back in Canterbury ,enjoying a pint of Whitstable Brewery Sorachi Ale (4.6 % ABV). which is a light and summery ale.

Poem Of The Week

This week i am focusing on the poetic works of the romantic poet Shelley.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Tower Of Famine


Amid the desolation of a city,
Which was the cradle, and is now the grave
Of an extinguished people,—so that Pity

Weeps o’er the shipwrecks of Oblivion’s wave,
There stands the Tower of Famine. It is built
Upon some prison-homes, whose dwellers rave

For bread, and gold, and blood: Pain, linked to Guilt,
Agitates the light flame of their hours,
Until its vital oil is spent or spilt.

There stands the pile, a tower amid the towers
And sacred domes; each marble-ribbed roof,
The brazen-gated temples, and the bowers

Of solitary wealth,--the tempest-proof
Pavilions of the dark Italian air,--
Are by its presence dimmed--they stand aloof,

And are withdrawn—so that the world is bare;
As if a spectre wrapped in shapeless terror
Amid a company of ladies fair

Should glide and glow, till it became a mirror
Of all their beauty, and their hair and hue,
The life of their sweet eyes, with all its error,
Should be absorbed, till they to marble grew.

Minster Visit

I visited the lovely bucolic environs of Minster village. After my mystery shop i noticed a micropub that was no bigger than somebody's lounge. I had a pint of Bexleys Bob (4.2 % ABV) and Kent Brewery Cobnut (4.1 % ABV).

I took some snaps of the village.

( Pics here )