Nice to see so many of my photos in the Observer today: Doctor Savage, King Size Slim and more. More photos from the events here: aPIERtite May Day Weekender
The sun and warmth are coming back. The quiet low tide. Fishermen pulling bait worms out of the sand. A lone seagull chills and looks out at the horizon. The vastness of it all. ‘Am I significant?’, it asks itself.
At the Heart & Hand, the jukebox is generally so good, that you can ‘lucky dip’, by poking in any old numbers to get a good playlist. It only takes old pound coins though, but you can swap them at the bar. I was once asked to play here. I played guitar, stood in front […]
Down by the seaside, see the boats go sailin’ A-can the people hear, oh, what the little fish are sayin’? Ah, ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Oh, oh, people turned away, oh, the people turned away Down in the city streets, see all the folk go racin’, racin’ No time left, no, no, to pass the time […]
Di Paolo’s Award-Winning ice cream served up by William the Cone-queror, St Leonards seafront. Where’s Will? Admittedly a little sporadic, but there’s a site and app to find him on the seafront. Also shows current ice cream flavours! You can also look out for that distinctive umbrella, visible from miles away on the seafront. http://williamtheconequeror.co.uk
Britannia Inn, Dungeness. Dungeness is a place so weird, alien, topsy turvy, that I’m still processing it. The name is weird. It’s old Norse, ‘Nes’, meaning headland, and the ‘Dunge’ bit might be related to Denge Marsh, up to the Northeast. Dungeness is a headland, a cuspate foreland strictly speaking. It is not on the […]