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19th November

St Ermenburga’s Day

Source: Orthodox Christianity website

Today is St Ermenburga’s Day, a Kentish princess who had an eye to the main chance as well being holy. Ermenburga’s brothers were disinherited by a wicked uncle who became King of Kent and then had the young men murdered by a nasty piece of work named Thunor. For reasons best known to himself, Thunor buried the corpses under the royal throne from which divine light began to emanate. Naturally the bodies were discovered and Ermenburga immediately demanded their wergild, a compensatory payment under Anglo-Saxon law, to the families of murdered members of the community as an alternative to the outbreak of a Germanic blood feud. As the two deceased were princes, the wergild was massive, allowing Ermenburga to construct a huge nunnery - her lifetime ambition - at Munster, on the Isle of Thanet, whose 10,000 acres were marked out by a hind let loose to set the boundaries of the new holding. At one point, Thunor reappeared on the scene and attempted to block the progress of the deer and therefore reduce the size of the property. God intervened and the earth opened up to swallow Thunor where he stood.

Ermenburga’s nunnery thrived, protected by a curse that would doom anyone who attempted to infringe on the lands to the same fate as Thunor. This held good, until the Reformation that is. Thunor’s Leap on Thanet marks the place where the sacrilegious murderer met his end.

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Waterloo Tower, Quex Park, Birchington, Kent

John Powell Powell (1769-1849 – the double Powell acquired to meet the conditions of an inheritance) was passionate about bell-ringing and erected this ‘light, elegant and fanciful building’ at Quex Park, his seat in Kent, where his hobby could be indulged. Not content with a lofty tower, he almost doubled its height with a unique cast iron spire – years before a certain Parisian landmark took…

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Royal Navy dress sword, which belonged to Captain Sir Thomas Staines (1776-1830) and Admiral Sir Joseph Nias (1793-1879). The outside of the knuckle-guard is engraved with the words 'Captn. Sir Thos. Staines K.C.B., K.F.M, K.O.C.' and on the underside of the quillon with the words 'George Gunning Esqre. to Captn. Joseph Nias R.N. 1832'. The sword was made by Salter, Sword Cutler & Jeweller to H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, 35 Strand London, 1815-20

More infos here:

The first owner of this sword was Captain Sir Thomas Staines who was born in 1776; and entered the Royal Navy in 1790; he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on the 3rd July 1796; to Commander on the 26th July 1802; to Captain on the 22nd January 1806 and he died on the 13th July 1830. Captain Staines was knighted in 1809 and was allowed to accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal Sicilian Order of St Ferdinand and Merit. In April 1810, several of the principal gentlemen of the Isle of Thanet threw a dinner in honour of him and presented him with a handsome sword. Later Captain Sir Thomas Staines commanded the frigate HMS 'Briton', in the Pacific, when he came unexpectedly upon Pitcairn Island on 17th September 1814, and was the first British man-of-war to discover the descendents of the mutineers of the 'Bounty'. He became a KCB at the reorganisation of the Order in 1815.

Admiral Sir Joseph Nias was born in 1793, he entered the Royal Navy on the 19th November 1807; he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on the 26th December 1820; to Commander on the 11th November 1827; to Captain on the 13th July 1835. He became a CB on the 29th June 1841; a Rear-Admiral on the 14th February 1857; a Vice-Admiral on the 12th September 1863; an Admiral on the 18th October 1867; a KCB in 1867 and he died in 1879. Admiral Sir Joseph Nias, KCB served in three expeditions to the Arctic under Ross and Parry (1818-1823). He also served at the Battle of Navarino in 1827 and the First China War between 1840-1842.

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whenever i ponder that book i'm never going to write it ends up with me thinking about a poster and its formatted somewhat like that "two men. Our bodies may be strong but our friendship is stronger" but it's just Hengist and Horsa and says;

"Romans Leave You High And Dry?"

We're a pair of Saxon brothers, and the two of us and our four thousand friends are ready and willing to help YOU fight the Picts for the small price of the Isle of Thanet and Kent!!

Hire 4,002 Saxons to do your dirty work today!

*Hengist and Horsa do not guarantee a total takeover and/or massacres will not happen, or take responsibility for the actions of any future countries that may be named England; hire 4,002 Saxons at your own risk*

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Isle of Thanet, England, 2023

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Dickens Festival. Isle of Thanet, Broadstairs, England. 19 June 2008

Photo: Simon Roberts

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Thanet Isle

Thanet is a former island, now peninsula, forming the north-eastern corner of the county of Kent.

Thanet is essentially synonymous with the Hundred of Ringslow, whose capital is the city of Ramsgate. It has become one of southern England's main transport hubs, as well as a popular destination for beach-tourism. It is sometimes referenced as Brabant Isle due to the high numbers of mainland Commonwealthers who have historically settled here across the past three centuries.

For those with culinary interests, spring and early summer are the best times to visit Thanet; whilst its beer and seafood can be enjoyed year-round its chief delicacy is its sparragrass, seasonal to that part of the year. Whilst truly international cuisine is more frequently found in the great Englisch ports such as Chatham, Dover, or Bristol, Artesian eateries are well represented across Thanet. For those with a sweet tooth, there are almost more pastlers in Ramsgate than in Calais. Thanet will likely never become one of the food capitals of the United Commonwealths, but one can certainly eat very well there.

For much of its history Thanet has been relatively obscure, serving principally as a convenient layover for various armed groups seeking ingress onto the shores of Grete Britein since the days of the Roman Empire. The Wantsoum, the now-silted channel separating Thanet from the mainland, provided respite from the treacheries of the high seas, as well as providing convenient access to the mouths of the rivers Themes and Medway. The island had little else to offer besides the quiet piety of its inhabitants and their fishing fleets.

This began to change after the foundation of the United Commonwealths in 1548. Almost overnight, Thanet became one of the closest parts of the Commonwealth of England to its brother Commonwealths on the European mainland, though this did not lead to an immediate transformation of fortunes. Whatever rise in maritime traffic across the 16th and 17th centuries Thanet saw was counterbalanced by the tendency of French privateers to raid the south eastern coastline during times of war, should they manage to escape Commonwealther squadrons sent to intercept. Likewise, it was still much faster to sail to Rochester than it was to travel from Thanet to Rochester by land.

It was the 18th century when fortune truly began to smile on this formerly obscure region. The conclusion of the Great Religious Wars was kind to all of England's southern coast. The county of Kent, not to mention the entire Commonwealth of England, was eager to take proper advantage of an unprecedented glut of commercial traffic directed to England from across much of Europe. This led to the attempted expansion of numerous previously-neglected harbours. One beneficiary of this was Ramsgate, a previously quiet hamlet on Thanet's south-eastern flank. It was an agonisingly slow project, begun in 1710 and only completed in 1812. Just in time, it turned out, to benefit from the earliest of England's cross-county railway lines.

The Kentisch Ironway, originally built to connect Rochester to the port of Dover, had already been extended to the north-east towards Canterbury in 1810. The decision was then taken to extend the line yet further to Ramsgate, and this work was completed in 1814. All of a sudden there was now real value in Ramsgate as a destination for cross-Commonwealth travellers, who could now alight at Ramsgate and take a train directly to Rochester. Within a few short years the former hamlet began to burst at the seams, and a period of frenetic expansion began. Other villages and towns of Thanet, themselves growing as a result of the island's sudden change in fortunes, soon found themselves swallowed up by Ramsgate's relentless need for growth. In the current era almost every significant town of eastern Thanet has been subsumed into Ramsgate, as reflected by the 1854 Borough Revision Act that, among other things, combined multiple previously rural parishes of east Thanet into a single urban borough governed from Ramsgate.

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Saint of the day July 30

Bl. Thomas Abel, 1540 A.D. English martyr. A graduate of Oxford University, Thomas served as chaplain to Queen Catharine of Aragon, proving intensely loyal to her cause during the ordeal of the divorce proceedings against her by King Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547). Arrested by English authorities for denying the spiritual supremacy of the king, he was incarcerated in the Tower of London for six years, finally receiving execution at Smithfield. He was beatified in 1886. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Abel

Bl. Edward Powell, 1504 A.D. English martyr, a councilor to Queen Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII. A Welshman, Edward was a canon of Salisbury, England, and a fellow of Odd, noted for treatises opposing Martin Luther. He served Queen Catherine of Aragon and opposed the spiritual supremacy of Henry VIII. For this he spent six years in prison before being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Smithfield, London. He was beatified in 1886. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Powell

Bl. Richard Featherstone, 1540 A.D. English martyr. Richard served as a chaplain to Queen Catherine of Aragon and tutor to the princess Mary I. In the crisis which attended the king’s efforts to secure divorce from his wife, Richard spoke openly in her defense and was arrested for treason and executed at Tyburn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fetherston

St. Tatwine, 734 A.D. Archbishop of Canterbury from 731. Probably from Mercia, England, he became a monk at Bredon, and eventually was named archbishop of Canterbury in succession to Brithwald. Respected by St. Bede, he was the author of several works, including a grammar and riddles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatwine

St. Ermengytha, 680 A.D. Benedictine nun, a daughter or sister of St. Ermenberga. She lived in Minster, on Thanet Isle, England, at a monastery ruled by Ermenberga.

ST. PETER CHRYSOLOGUS, BISHOP OF RAVENNA AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH Peter Chrysologus was Bishop of Ravenna in the 5th century, when the Italian city was the capital of the western Roman empire. He is famous for his homilies, and his preaching earned him the epithet “golden-worded” (Chrysologus). St Peter was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1729. July 30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chrysologus#:~:text=Peter%20Chrysologus%20(Greek%3A%20%E1%BC%8D%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82%20%CE%A0%CE%AD%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82,as%20the%20Bishop%20of%20Ravenna.

STS. ABDON AND SENNEN, MARTYRS-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdon_and_Sennen#:~:text=Saints%20Abdon%20and%20Sennen%2C%20variously,the%20first%20Sunday%20of%20May.

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Swan family rescued from busy A256 roadside by police, RSPCA and Save Minster Marshes founder – The Isle Of Thanet News

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Swan family rescued from busy A256 roadside by police, RSPCA and Save Minster Marshes founder – The Isle Of Thanet News

The swan and their cygnets had ventured onto the busy A256 Photo Malcolm Kirkaldie Kent Police officers, an RSPCA officer and passing gamekeeper George Cooper rescued two swans and their six cygnets from a busy roadside today (July 2). The family appear to have lost their way and had gone into the A256 Ramsgate Road […]

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Body Shop to shut 75 stores and cut hundreds of jobs

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By Dearbail Jordan

BBC News

The Body Shop will close 75 shops in the UK over the coming weeks and cut 489 jobs, according to the firm overseeing its restructuring.

It means that, combined with cost-cutting at the company’s head office, between 750 and 800 people will be made redundant.

However, The Body Shop will keep 116 UK stores open.

The UK arm of the global beauty chain was put into administration earlier this month.

Shops will be closed over the next four to six weeks. FRP Advisory, which is managing the restructuring, said it would “support all impacted staff with claims to the Redundancy Payments Service”.

“In taking swift action to right-size The Body Shop UK store portfolio, we have stabilised the business,” said FRP Advisory’s Tony Wright.

“We remain fully focused on exploring all options to take the business forward.”

The Body Shop was a trailblazer – what went wrong?

The Body Shop was founded in Brighton in 1976 by the late Dame Anita Roddick who opened a single shop in the seaside town. Known for its natural beauty products and its stance against testing on animals, it expanded rapidly in the following years.

Dame Anita and her husband Gordon sold the business to French beauty giant L’Oreal in 2006, much to the chagrin of some loyal followers who viewed the French beauty giant’s business at odds with The Body Shop’s ethos.

Since then, The Body Shop has changed hands twice, most recently to private equity firm Aurelius in late 2023. Within weeks, it decided to place the UK arm in administration following poor sales over Christmas and January.

Wildly popular in the 1980s and 1990s, The Body Shop appeared to fall out of fashion as competitors arrived in the natural beauty market including Lush and Rituals.

The UK shops closing are:

Aylesbury

Banbury

Barnstaple

Basildon

Battersea

Bedford

Beverley

Bexleyheath

Blackburn

Blackpool

Bournemouth Commercial Rd

Bolton

Brixton

Broughton Park

Bury

Camberley

Carlisle

Carmarthen

Chippenham

Cirencester

Croydon

Didcot

Durham

East Kilbride

Edinburgh Gyle Centre

Edinburgh Princes Mall

Epsom

Fareham

Farnborough

Glasgow Braehead

Glasgow Fort

Glasgow Silverburn

Glasgow Station

Grimsby

Halifax

Harlow

Hastings

Hempstead Valley

High Wycombe

Huddersfield

Hull

Ilford

Ipswich

Isle of Wight

Islington

Kendal

Kings Lynn

Leeds White Rose

Lewisham Centre

Lichfield

Loughborough

Luton

Macclesfield

Middlesbrough

Morpeth

Newton Abbot

Northampton

Oldham

Perth

Peterborough Queensgate

Portsmouth

Regent Street

Salisbury

Stafford

Stanstead Airside

Stratford Upon Avon

Swansea

Telford

Thanet

Trowbridge

Wakefield Trinity Walk

Walthamstow

Wigan

Woking

Wolverhampton

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Chris Jack is a visual artist based in Margate, England. His work incorporates different media and approaches: photography, poetry, sound recording, computer code. Touching on broad topics such as science and technology, the environment, social history, and philosophy, his work enquires about notions of home, or habitat — questioning where, how and if it is felt.

His ongoing Thanet Bayou series takes up these musings in his own habitat - the Isle of Thanet, in Kent, England. His forthcoming book Sanctuary, the first chapter of this work, will be released in early October at @bop_bristol, and direct from the artist online.

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Day going well… #CloudGrab and #treescape captures from Upstreet, Kent on the edge of the Isle Of Thanet - 23.05.23 (5 takes)

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This story has been featured in the isle of thanet news From homelessness and addiction to work and becoming a home owner – “do not give up on hope” This is a short overview of my journey through the progress of being Homeless To Homeowner. I hope you guys enjoy the story. its been fun to write and go back through the experience. I remember the day I became homeless I had a bit of a checklist for the day it went something like: Tent Location Food I was lucky to have some money to hand. so I headed to our local shopping centre and located a camping shop where I brought a tent and a rucksack. and some basic fire-starting materials. whist I was there I brought some food to get me through the first day. the location would have to be the woods. unlike other local homeless i was not wanting to be seen I had too much dignity. 3 Months went past and I was at breaking point my circumstances where changing and I needed a change. I was dirty I smelt bad. and my addictions were getting worse.  to make things worse I was starting to lose hope, the first two months felt like a holiday the camping trip I had never experienced but it was winter and the last month hit me badly. i would do anything to change things ad take a new start. and then out of nowhere the council offered me an emergency placement. you can read more about this on the Being Homeless Aged 18 area of my website! Emergency accommodation in the UK Comes in many ways. for me, it was an out of season hotel because it was winter. my room was tiny I would walk in and it was a bed, cupboard, toilet and shower all within a small confined area. but it was a roof and an upgrade. I spent a good 8 Months Located in the Glenwood Hotel but I was warm and able to wash each day, I met some good people. and within the 8 months at Glenwood, I totally cleaned my act up with Spice Misuse.  I was even in a college cause provided by the jobcentre to help me with employment. everything was looking up for me. I remember during my college course I got a phone call. of course, I couldn't take it but it was from an unknown landline so I was curious. but I was very pleasantly shocked during my break I called it back up.  it was the council office. they found me a flat! not a desirable one but it was a bloody upgrade and a half! I was so excited!  another journey out of homeless. This flat had its up and downs. the towerblock was full of troublesome Nabours and constant arson attacks. I spent 3 years there but made the best of it and fought the papers to change the way the building was. I got to admit that I hardly looked after the place. although it was the closest thing I had to a home it never felt like it. and this discouraged me massively when it came to taking care of the place. but through the years it kept me safe and allowed me to build myself back up. it also gave me the independence I had so much desired for. But something special was going to start.  josh and I had been looking to relocate for years we had been saving for a while. but I'm not sure what happened. this year things went so fast! on the 29th of October, we had a viewing to buy a house in Rochester, Kent I had lived here previously for a while.  when I was placed in Semi Independence Care At (Redacted For The Time Being) i loved the area. it was lovely.  a bit far from home.  we ended up reserving a flat on the development.  with the possibility of taking over an even better one which was going to be complete in a month instead of the following year. the following week was hell we had to chase up the development constantly. but i remember when josh called me to say we secured the second option... he got very annoyed at me because I could not believe him until I saw it in writing and then I was over the moon we were so relieved. Blurred in areas for Data Protection the following month we had lots and lots of papers to read, and sign. mortgages to fulfil and all within a 4-week deadline.

the next step was securing the mortgage. this was the more challenging and demanding part. especially with the shorter deadline. but the relief when we go the message from the Lawyers. we were now set up to move in on the 30th of September. Blurred For Data Protection in some areas. handed keys in on the 30th of September and we were given our home tour the same day. INSERT IMAGE (Home Tour) and by the next week, we were fully moved in. I then spent another week getting my old flat back into good enough condition to hand back to the local council. the move was a stressful experience but one that I was grateful to be able to go through. it shows that even when you're at you're lowest you should not give up on hope! you just don't know what is waiting for you around the corner Thanks for reading the first "Postive aimed blog" there is going to be quite a few posts over the next year which will take a negative subject and focus on the positives. as I've just moved I've started with this subject but next month will be one where I focus on homelessness. as always I hope you enjoyed this story if so, leave a message on social media or via the website. hope you have a great day. Don't give up hope!

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Tourism in Western Europe: A Collection of Case Histories

Richard Voase provides an interesting collection of case studies regarding Western European tourism development. The case studies are well organized in three thematic areas based on political, economic and socio-cultural contexts. The collection of stories communicates changes in tourism development and practices and reflects how tourism development seeks for new ways of tourism thinking. Voase concludes that tourism experiences, on the part of travelers, show signs of active decision making with passive consumption. This point prompts the reader to think that tourists choose "canned" experiences that are creatively constructed, however accessed through extensive information search and decision-making.

The case studies are authored by a variety of authors with strong local ties to the place they write about which enables extraordinary insight into issues the tourism industry faces in Europe and North America (although North America is not the focus of this book). This book can be used in a tourism development course to help students identify current issues in tourism (e.g., environmental challenges, sustainability, conservation approaches) and build upon definitions and theoretical models in tourism.

In his introduction, Voase conveys that the analysis or interpretation of the cases is based on political, Miss Tourism Challenges economic, socio-cultural and technological environments. The analysis captures the multidimensionality of the tourism product and the cultural and social factors that relate to current ideologies, which affect how tourism evolves. Such ideologies are relating to prevalent postmodernism approaches that seem to affect those consumer behaviors, which capture experiential consumption rather than production processes of products or services.

The book consists of eleven chapters. The first four chapters are approached under the lenses of a political context analysis. The first chapter, by Meethan, presents the role of tourism marketing and public policy in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, England. Meethan concludes that for these two counties "marketing was one aspect of a wider integrated policy which aims to incorporate tourism more fully into the regional economy" and these programs would not have been possible without the funding from the European Union (EU). "The cases of Devon and Cornwall also demonstrate how new organizational forms emerge as a response to wider structural changes".

Chapter 2, by Morpeth, focuses on the role of leisure and tourism as political instruments in Britain during the 1980s. Central and local governments used leisure and recreation policies as an extension of urban policy to balance the negative effects of unemployment and structural problems evident in England in the 1980s. Morpeth discusses the case of the city of Middlesbrough and the role of Thatcherism policies on the city, which focused on the generation of inner cities and the use of tourism as a tool for regeneration.

Chapter 3, by Voase, discusses the influence of political, economic and social change in a mature tourist destination; the Isle of Thanet in southeast England. Voase concludes that the process of policy, planning and development of tourism in a mature destination is not always straightforward. The antagonistic politics among the stakeholders involved in tourism development led to inconsistencies regarding the development of the destination. Chapter 4, by Robledo and Batle, focuses on Mallorca as a case study for replanting tourism development for a mature destination using Butler's (1980) product life cycle concept. As a mature destination, Mallorca needs a sustainable development strategy to survive in the future. This acknowledgement led the Tourism Ministry of the Balearics Island Government to establish a tourism supply-side regulation to protect the environment. This plan however, as Robledo and Bade identified, is an interesting case of struggle between different groups (i.e., government, ecological groups, councils, hoteliers, construction industry) defending their interests in tourism development. Voase identifies these first four chapters having three common factors: the role and interplay of local tiers of government in the formulation and implementation of policy, the role of politics as a vehicle for the promotion and management of economic interests, and the powerful influence of socio-cultural factors. While these common factors are not directly evident in the presented case studies, Voase fills that gap with his writings. These common factors can stimulate further discussion as to what is the role of politics in tourism and how policy can affect researchers and practitioners in the field.

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Isle of Thanet, England, 2023

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Manston immigration centre where kids were forced to sleep on floor is now empty

Manston immigration centre where kids were forced to sleep on floor is now empty

All of the migrants are now said to be in hotel rooms or other accommodation (Picture: Reuters) The Manston immigration centre is now empty, according to Home Office sources. Thousands of migrants had been placed in tents at the former military airfield on the Isle of Thanet, over the last few months, leading to overcrowding and outbreaks of disease. Photos showed children sleeping on the floor…