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St Peters and Margate - the 9th best part of London?

According to travel site trafalgarblog.com the 9th best thing you can do in London is come visit Thanet!

Specifically St Peters Village Tour, Scotts Furniture Mart (Margate) and Quex Park in Birchington are just three of the list of Thanet attractions they list. Who knew we were in London now?
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Talk to the star

Talk to the Thanet Star and you could get quoted or something... hmm... that ended not-so-well

I'd like to talk to some estate agents on or off the record about the nature of your business in Thanet. I'd also like to talk with people in the business sector especially SME owners. Also love to talk to arts people...

* For those that did not know a SME is a Small or Medium sized Enterprise. Bet you are glad you tuned in for this one!
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Guest writers wanted

I am looking for people with something to say. Perhaps you don't have the time or inclination to maintain a full blog but would like to be published.

Now is your opportunity to get you say published on Thanet Star - just drop me a line with your proposed article and let the magic do it's work.

This offer is open to established bloggers to - even those whose opinion differs from my own.
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20% chance of change

There is now a 20% chance that I will shortly move out of the area for work. As such I may not be able to maintain a Thanet based blog while no longer in Thanet.

Rather than let this blog die my intention is to find a team of co-writers that will be able to write for Thanet Star. If you feel that the team should include you please let me know.
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Words and Pictures

Once more I am going to be kept away from blogging by far less interesting things like paperwork and other stuff no one should ever have to deal with. While I am attempting to retain the last vestages of my sanity here is another Thanet blog that you might like to look at.

"WORDS AND PICTURES"

I'm 37, live in Margate, Kent with my partner of 9 years and my two boys. I was diagnosed with Scoliosis around 1990. They straightened my spine with a combination of metal rods attached either side and a bone graft and spinal fusion of the top half of my spine, using donated bone. I now suffer with chronic pain in the left side of my neck and shoulder, back pain throughout the length of my spine and pain in the left sacroiliac joint in my pelvis. I have created this blog after my friend, Jason said it would be a very good way to display my poems and many photographs that I have taken recently.

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3 of the best from Thanet

Sometimes what you want is to find something interesting, up lifting and politics free. Today's post is a collection of three links to Thanet blogs and all three posts are not only politics free but interesting and largely positive.

TABIBOO: No Complaints

Well that's another week gone by and it's almost the weekend, but being grey and rainy here on our little Southern tip today Little Boo and I are stuck indoors...



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Thanet Press Releases: RUN THE THANET MILE

One of the country's top young hurdlers is encouraging people to rise to the challenge and do the Thanet Mile in Ramsgate for Sport Relief.

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Not dead just resting

I am not dead.

I am however having not a nice time with some deeply unpleasant things to deal with. I will return shortly.
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Guest blogger for hire

I have now taken up a new role as in-house guest blogger at a new site.

This blog is run largely for an American audience (particularly the real estate sector) and talks about the things you can do to promote yourself, your blog and your business on line. For those of you who are interested in reading about promotion techniques in a lot more depth than I have been able to cover here you may wish to pop over to go-beyond-mls.com and specifically you might want to comment on my introductory post (or not, suit yourself).

I do not imagine that my status as regular guest blogger elsewhere will impact particularly on my blogging here except that I might or might not talk a bit less about blogging itself. If anyone else would like to have posts written for them on their blog then please let me know and we can come to a mutually beneficial arrangement.
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Naughty Users

You might recall that not so very long ago I made a point of clarifying site policy. My only real bone of contention was with people using the comments as a form of search engine advertising centre rather than as a place to add something or make an interesting point. Specifically I did not want to find the real readers and myself chatting with people called "Limescale Prevention", "Cheap Pills" or "PC Parts". There is nothing wrong with making it clear that you are commenting in an official capacity by adding your site title after your name (or handle) such as "Matt B (Thanet Star)" I'd even be willing to put up with something ugly like "My Name | Keyword".

While I expect our anon bloggers to carry on calling themselves by their handles rather than their real names I do not see this as a good reason to let the Jonny Come Lately American and East Europian bloggers abuse this or any other site.

Enough was enough and you might have noticed that those who have been putting self promotion and profit above the quality of local debate have now be renamed "Naughty User" and their link removed and their IP address exposed for all to see. Hopefully those from all parts of the world that think they can abuse Thanet's growing blog success (something all Thanet's bloggers have had a hand in) will start to realise that this is not something we are willing to put with.
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I hope you are having a nice time where-ever you are today.
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