tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908097480376132531.post4316891819757531615..comments2023-10-28T08:38:32.754+01:00Comments on A layer of chips: Across the great divideA layer of chipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05093396895247679776noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908097480376132531.post-8225853186816411652009-03-26T22:00:00.000+00:002009-03-26T22:00:00.000+00:00You have clearly never been to Margate.You have clearly never been to Margate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908097480376132531.post-37271157082096734242009-03-08T19:55:00.000+00:002009-03-08T19:55:00.000+00:00A-ha! I think it was Sandbanks my father in law wa...A-ha! I think it was Sandbanks my father in law was talking about, yeah. Crazy, isn't it?A layer of chipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05093396895247679776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908097480376132531.post-44176835187866215732009-03-08T19:53:00.000+00:002009-03-08T19:53:00.000+00:00Well, famously Sandbanks a bit further down the co...Well, famously Sandbanks a bit further down the coast has the most expensive average property prices in Britain (although when I spent a week down there last year I found a really quite cheap and well maintained flat literally a couple of minutes' walk from their explosion in an art deco factory). Harry Redknapp lives there. About eight years ago I almost literally bumped into him and Jamie coming back onto the pavement off the beach where they were walking a mangy dog.<BR/><BR/>But yeah, I'd broadly agree about the coastal divide. Even in mid-summer you can go especially out east and even if the sun is at its highest you're preparing yourself for whipping coastal winds, large expanses of half-wet sand covered in shells with small shallow pools where the tide once came in, and a seafront entirely populated by abandoned pubs and amusement arcades predominately featuring those machines you put 2ps into in the vague hope of winning a plastic brooch.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834265575179460764noreply@blogger.com