It's Chrismas Eve already, where does the time go?  I know quite a few of our guests will be celebrating this evening so I hope I have managed to post this on time (first attempt was a couple of days ago when I clicked the wrong button and lost the lot!)

2011 has been a great year for us and Ramsgate.  The B&B has been busier than ever with lots of new guests this year aswell as many familiar faces and Ramsgate has seen many new businesses open with more in the pipeline.  

Thanet is celebrating World Food Day on Sunday, 16th October at Margate's Winter Gardens.  The doors will be open from 11am - 4pm with this year's theme highlighting Fairtrade cotton.

With over 100 stalls featuring Fairtrade and local produce plus a fashion show, musical entertainment and workshops (including drumming, story-telling and cooking demos), this is a great family day out and it's free!

Broadstairs 3 day Food Festival gets underway tomorrow and this year, not only will there be more than 100 stalls celebrating Kent's finest food and drink but there will be sunshine too and lots of it!  Last year more than 21,000 people attended this lovely festival on Victoria Gardens and I suspect this year will be even busier.

Ramsgate Art Group are all set for another festival following on from the success of last year's August Bank Holiday event.

The weekend programme is packed with art including painting, sculpture, photography, music, poetry, street theatre and ofcourse the chance to meet many of our talented local artists, see their studios and buy their work.

What a fantastic week the Golf Open was, not just for Sandwich but for Ramsgate and the surrounding areas too.

The weather was unseasonably awful but it didn't put golf fans off and our guests like many others braved the wind and rain to watch their favourite golfers play the infuriating game of golf (I am rubbish at it).  Thank you to the BBC radio and TV coverage (now you don't hear that very often!) as they kept talking about the White Cliffs of Ramsgate and marvelling at the surrounding areas and even with the stormy weather it still managed to look beautiful.

Tomorrow marks the start of Broadstairs Dickens Festival with 7 days of Victorian fun including the Victorian Country Fair which is open every day of the festival from 10am - 5 pm. Broadstairs truly know how to enjoy a Dickens filled week - they should do by now as they have been holding such festivities every year since 1937 (apart from during WWII).

Mike Samson (one of our featured artists) sent me this amazing YouTube clip below showing off Ramsgate's newest installments to the Great Wall down at Ramsgate's Main Sands.

The official unveilling of 'GWR' was a couple of weeks ago and most of the remaining spaces on the now famous hoardings have been taken up with more suberb artwork by local artists. 

Congratulations to Margate after a fantastic week following the opening of Turner Contemporary on 16th April.

I popped over last Thursday on a sunny afternoon and Margate's old town was bustling.  As I walked towards Margate's Turner Contemporary, there was a real summer atmosphere with small independent stores full of customers and people enjoying food and drink sitting outside pubs and cafes.  Margate is on the up and long may it continue!

My parents came up to Ramsgate this week to celebrate my thirty eleventh birthday.  We sat out at the beautiful harbour and enjoyed the sunshine although, by the evening, I realised I had enjoyed it a little too much and had sunburn for my birthday!