Broadstairs Dickens Festival June 2010 Bathing Party Pictures.

I was unable to get away from work in my bookshop on Wednesday afternoon, so didn’t get any pictures of the bathing party, so many thanks to Janet Porter for letting me copy hers.

Here is the link to her pictures http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/Dickens/id10.htm the links to mine are in the previous post.

I did my best photographing photographs and as with the rest of the pictures I will endeavour to go through later and enhance them.

More pictures of Broadstairs Dickens Festival 2010

My day off today and I managed to get over to Broadstairs and take some more pictures of the people who go to considerable trouble to dress up in costumes of the period Charles Dickens wrote about.

Click on the links for the pictures for the pictures so far the bottom link is for today’s pictures if you have already seen the rest.

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/id7.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/Dickens/id8.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/id9.htm

there will be more to come and hopefully at some time I will get a chance to go through and sort them out a bit.

Boom and Bust Budget?

Looking at the budget out of which I seem to come out about the same, in terms of personal finances, there were a few aspects that I didn’t like that much, however I expect those who understand more about economics or the sound of underground spirits better than I do will soon correct me on.

The first is the way the VAT rise has been handled, in as much as this seems likely to cause a minnie boom at he end of this year followed by a minnie bust at the beginning of next.

In physics there is a thing called the butterfly effect and I hope it doesn’t apply with underground spirit noises.

Another is the personal allowance thing, doling out this extran money in the same amount to everyone with an income under £101,000 per year seems a bit daft really, I don’t really think it is appropriate to be giving tax breaks to people earning over £1,000 pounds a week.

The other thing I don’t like the look of is that the wrst off of the pensioners seem to be hit disproportional hard.

The things I am not sure that it addresses that well are, the people at the bottom end of the skills bracket who are only marginally better off working than being on benefit and the public sector pension burden.

Anyway as I said I am a bit out of my depth here, and with books being zero rated the VAT increase will probably be pretty much offset by the increase in personal allowance, so I come out about the same.

Here is the link to the most recent pictures http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/610/id32.htm yesterday evening in Broadstairs, a few people dressed up in Dickens, period costume, something that only occurred to me after trying to photograph the Dickens costumes is that there are quite a few marginals in Broadstairs.

By this I mean they are not wearing clothing that relates to this period of time, but it often doesn’t look as though they are wearing clothing that relates to Dickens period of time either.

This isn’t any sort of criticism of people in Broadstairs and suppose it often most describes the group I fall into.

The rest of the page is pictures of Ramsgate today.

Pictures of Broadstairs Dickens Festival 2010

About 300 pictures taken today mostly of the people who make a considerable effort to dress up for the Dickens Festival.

As far as the copyright goes if it is for a non commercial purpose then please feel free to use the pictures how you like, if you need any of them in high definition email me, link on the sidebar, same if you want to use any of them for commercial purposes.

If you need any of them printed out all the libraries and most copy shops should be able to do this and I will do any that I can in the bookshop for anyone who wants them, remember it is closed on Thursdays and Sundays.

Click on the links for the pictures

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/id5.htm

More pictures here http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/dickens/id7.htm from evening 21st June.

Pictures from the evening of 22nd June 2010 http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/Dickens/id8.htm

the main advantage with the large size originals is that I can crop out part of the picture and still get a fairly high definition print for you, so if there is something modern in the background or you were carrying a plastic carrier bag I can sometimes remove it.

The pictures started publishing to the internet at 5.25pm and it will be about an hour before they are all uploaded and you can see them all, it takes a lot longer to put things on the web than to view them.

Two lots of apologies here, one is some of the pictures are on their sides and I will endeavour to sort that out tomorrow, this is because the monitor I use on my day off is much smaller that the one in the bookshop.

The other is that shop and family commitments meant that I once again failed to get pictures of Margate’s Big Event.

I should point out that this isn’t a deliberate slight to the council or Margate but due to the fact that I run the shop on Saturday and like last year one of my children’s friends birthday parties falls on the Sunday and is held in Broadstairs on that day.