http://www.kentview.com Life, work, play and business in the Garden of England Tue, 12 May 2009 21:00:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the first of as many quick blog reviews as I can find for Kent, I thoroughly enjoyed perusing this wonderful blog for Tunbridge Wells - some beautiful photographs, great information for locals and visitors alike, and definitely a must-visit site for anyone wanting to pop to the Royal spa ... http://www.kentview.com/2009/05/12/tunbridge-wells-blog-review/ It will be good to see Kent County Council put into action their intentions to support businesses in the county.  This is one area that I've no direct experience - my own business being pretty tiny in the grand scheme of Kentish commerce - however it is good to see ... http://www.kentview.com/2008/12/13/kcc-backing-kent-business/ This week saw the launch of the Kent Excellence in Business Awards for 2009. Supported by the Kent Messenger group and Kent County Council, businesses of all sizes from the county are encouraged to enter one of the 16 categories and/or the individual awards. Entries must be submitted by March 2009 and ... http://www.kentview.com/2008/12/13/kent-excellence-in-business-awards-2009/ My boy does miss watching this on the TV - I suppose the show is lurking on some obscure satellite channel that I am certainly not going to be subscribing to in the foreseeable future. So getting a flyer home from school for Robot Wars coming to the Leisure Centre in ... http://www.kentview.com/2008/11/08/robot-wars-comes-to-maidstone-kent/ Compared to many other places in the world, and in the UK, we're pretty lucky in Kent as far as poverty goes, I'd say.  Or so I thought until I researched how this blog could be useful as a part of the global Blog Action Day today. It's obvious that UK ... http://www.kentview.com/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-for-poverty-a-view-in-kent/ With news this week of a revised Operation Stack in place, I asked Nigel Grainger, a fleet risk expert, for his opinion: I was asked by the editor of your Kent Blog to review this plan by Kent Police. I think that the idea is provisionally a rather good one, but ... http://www.kentview.com/2008/10/02/expert-opinion-operation-stack/ Bluewater is hosting a few celebrities for various reasons - mostly book signings at Waterstones. My friend, Sarah, across the bridge in Essex, for some reason thought I'd like to know that Richard Madeley is visiting Bluewater - apparently women of a certain age find him appealing - cheeky young whippersnapper! Actually ... http://www.kentview.com/2008/09/29/book-signings-and-beauty-at-bluewater/ The last time I bought the Kent Life magazine, I was a tad underwhelmed, I have to admit.  But with this blog in place, it seemed time to take another look, and with a trip up to London offering the perfect opportunity for some reading... So - the September 2008 issue ... http://www.kentview.com/2008/09/27/kent-life-a-review/ During one of my surfs through the web for news, I spotted that the Kent Bee-keepers' Association have just launched their new website. This is a great find; we've been made aware of the potential effect on our environment from the reported declining numbers of bees, so I'm more than happy ... http://www.kentview.com/2008/09/24/kent-bee-keepers-association-new-website/ The Kent coast is excellent for sea fishing. Having fished most of my life off of this coast, it saddens me that for the last few years the fishing has been tougher. It seems like only last week we were bringing home bin liners of freshly caught fish to share ... http://www.kentview.com/2008/09/21/sea-fishing-off-the-kent-coast/