St. Rumwolds Raft Race at Bonnington
A small hint to anyone taking part next year, don’t pick a fight splashing the opposition if:
The crews of Mamma Mia and the Silver Duck found this out to their cost. The school children enthusiastically water ballooning the rafters. It was great fun to watch.
Attack on the Silver Duck
Google Street View has been in the news a lot recently and after a previous sighting in Tenterden, today I spotted a Street View car on the A20 by the Pilgrims Hospice.
So, whether you believe Street View is an invasion of privacy or not, now is the time to cut the lawn, clean the car and the windows, because your house will be appearing on the internet soon.
PS I would avoid putting out the dustbins in your dressing gown too.
Today I was a passenger on the first Eurostar train to carry passengers on the High-Speed rail link through Kent.
I had volunteered to take part in the evacuation exercise within the tunnels and had assumed this was beneath the channel. Unfortunately the evacuation exercise was for the new tunnels under London and the Thames. Not nearly so good a talking point. More disappointing to for my mate Andrew Jones who was probably thinking that he had been invited under false pretences. The passengers were nearly all men, most of whom were carrying expensive cameras and camcorders. We also got to see the newly redeveloped St. Pancras station which is still under construction.
The evacuations went smoothly without any noticeable problems and then it was on to the first high-speed passenger train journey in the UK. We made the journey from Folkestone through Ebbsfleet to London in about 21 minutes. The ride was smooth and the speed hardly noticeable until you watched as the cars on the motorway were being left far behind. The train manager announced that we were doing 300 km/h and a small, self conscious cheer went up from the passengers. At this point Andy said he could not let the opportunity pass for another first and he headed off to the toilet for his first 300 km/h pee. The experience was obviously a good one as Andrew returned grinning from ear to ear.
Andrew over exagerates the effects of travelling at 300km/h
Just heard on the news that two thirds of all foreign lorries stopped in a police check in Kent yesterday had faults that made them unroad worthy. BBC Kent has an article on it here. Why am I not surprised that UK hauliers are finding it hard to compete with their foreign competitors.
For several years the local papers have been publicising the fact that there is not enough water supplies to support the new houses Mr. Prescott has been forcing upon the South. No matter what the council has been said or the local studies have reported, no one was really interested.
Then, the media made it open season on John Prescott and any news involving him has become big news. This last week the national newspapers commented on how “irresponsible” it was to promote the building of new homes in the south when there is not the infrastructure to support it.
So, thanks to the hot water Prescott has got himself into through his extra-marital affairs, someone has finally noticed what was going on.
The Times has reported on the crime figures for England and Wales and found that Ashford in Kent has the dubious honour of being the eigth in the table for murders per capita!