Blogs

Dover Castle

Perched high on a hill looking down on Dover is the splendid Dover Castle...

Words From The Island - A Blog By Maggie Harris

A Caribbean in Carmarthenshire, 2

Country cowboys wrestle with winter.We're cowboys at country living, totally incompetent...

Ramblings From A Kentish Maid T Thurais Blog

A Curious Turn of Events

It is funny how despite your best plans, fate derails you...

Views Of The Road David Bartons Motoring Law Blog

An initiative to help inform young and new drivers in schools across KentIn early October I will be starting a series of seminars and question and answer sessions to 16 and 17 year olds in schools across Kent...

Jaye Nolan: the Medway Muse

Rochester Literature Festival keeps it live and local

The Rochester Literature Festival is back for a third year bringing readers, writers and like minds together.Featuring a sense of people and places, this year’s Rochester Literature Festival ‘Live’n’Local’ will mix writings inspired by the urban and rural places of Kent, along with its cultural heritage.On Saturday, the festival will be based at The Guildhall Museum in Rochester High Street for a selection of talks with an historic theme, while the popular Cafe Crawl will take place in various cafes...

Inside Out - The Observations Of A Kentish Man At Large By David Philpott

FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS

FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUSCharity Balls, like Golf Days and busses, seem to come along in threes. Yet whereas shotgun starts and four balls’ is all part of a sport I have never had an interest in, I will rarely say no to a good meal, a bit of entertainment and a dance. Thus last night, the Kent MS Therapy Centre Red Carpet Ball at the Canterbury Rugby Club was the last (for now) in a long run of such occasions that collectively have raised a staggering amount of money for many good and varied causes...

Anya Hart-Dyke Blogs About Going Green

How much water do you eat?

The staggering water footprint of foodSeptember last year saw international bigwigs meet in Stockholm for World Water Week, the theme of which was water and food security...

Rachael Hales Blog On Kents Historical People And Places

Would you send this in the post?

The thought of sending eggs in today's post is quite frankly laughable, even with fragile tape, special containers and pleas for caution, things don't always arrive in the condition that one would like but during World War II eggs became a rare and special cargo...