I supposed that would depend on the orientation of your 'half glass'.
However, I found myself navigating the North of the Isle yesterday, pondering that poser, and thinking (as I have done in Ramsgate, not too many years ago) that the whole town is akin to a beautiful jewel with shit all over it.
As regenerative as Ramsgate and, perhaps, Broadstairs seem to be, it smacks of walking around in a pretty dress with dog poo stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
There are some lovely buildings in Margate with some wonderful history and, it seems to me, a handfull of people trying to drag it out of the hole that it's been pushed into over the last 30 years.
It's happening here, why not there?
It does seem easy enough to sit in Ramsgate and be smug but how does that help anything except our own egos?
I think, from now on, I may well stop disrespecting Margate as it does seem to have a latent beauty and bags of potential.
The collection of (to coin a couple of phrases) 'utterly contemptuous pricks' and 'steaming great twats' that have run it into the ground are, however, still fair game!
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I think Margate has huge potential and is a beautiful spot. It's just been run into the ground for far too long.
It is those who have blundered around and dragged their heels and gone on about regeneration for far too long without actually doing anything about it who deserve our full wrath.
Not that we should be complacent about Ramsgate - it ain't there yet! We had some pretty lights in the harbour arches - they haven't been working for two months now. And look at all the boarded up premises along King Street, and the wasteland that is the Pleasurama site!
King Street goes a little beyond 'boarded up'. As I've mentioned before, you can feel the atmosphere change as you walk along it. I'd suppose that most towns have an area that is similarly menacing but how is that remedied without just moving it somewhere else? That'd be more to do with the people that occupy it, rather than the street itself, surely?
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