#driving school Ramsgate

[ezy2learndriving]

Choosing the best driving school in Ramsgate Beach, or any other location, requires careful consideration of various factors to ensure you receive quality instruction and a positive learning experience. Here are some tips to help you make an informed decision.Get more information please read this blog.

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Topclass Driving School provides manual driving lessons in the Broadstairs, Margate, and Ramsgate areas of Thanet and most of the surrounding areas of Kent.

[anilaseo]

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[thegreenmeridian]

@victorian-sexstache did a thing and I’m bored so I’m doing it too.

1. what color is your hair brush?

I shave my head, so I don’t have one

2. a food you never eat?

Fish. I do eat seafood though.

3. are you typically too warm or too cold?

Too warm. Always too warm.

4. what were you doing 45 minutes ago?

Playing solitaire on my iPad

5. what is your favorite candy bar?

Anything Reeses

6. have you ever been to a professional sporting event?

Yeah, I used to go watch the Eastbourne Eagles speedway team a lot. I miss that, speedway is awesome.

7. what was the last thing you said out loud?

“Hello babycakes” to my cat as he climbed over my head

8. what is your favorite ice cream?

I had apple strudel ice cream in Ramsgate as a child, I still think about that.

9. what was the last thing you had to drink?

Backwoods Bastard beer

10. do you like your wallet?

It’s alright. Just a regular wallet.

11. what was the last thing you ate?

Dry cereal. It’s call Havre Minifras, and it’s pleasantly bland.

12. did you buy any new clothes last weekend?

My husband got new swim trunks so I got his old ones, if that counts?

13. the last sporting event you watched?

The 2018 Winter Olympics

14. what is your favorite flavor of popcorn?

Salty-sweet. Or the weird cheese dust stuff Iceland has.

15. who was the last person you sent a text message to?

The husband

16. ever go camping?

Yeah, I got dragged to camp sites as a kid. Never liked it. I don’t wanna have to put on shoes and walk somewhere to take piss and I really like having an actual bed and not having to fuck about with calor has to eat.

17. do you take vitamins?

Yeah, I have chronic B-12 deficiency so I have to have ass injections occasionally.

18. do you go to church every sunday?

No, I wasn’t raised in a religion and I’ve no interest in joining one now. I went through a Unitarian phase for a couple of months after a bad breakup in 2015, though.

19. do you have a tan?

I have two settings, deathly pale or 2nd degree burns.

20. do you prefer chinese food or pizza?

These satisfy completely different needs for me so it’s impossible to compare. Also I’m British so obviously my favourite is Indian.

21. do you drink your soda with a straw?

Nope

22. what color socks do you usually wear?

I have two kinds of socks. Nike trainer liners and some Kirkland merino wool boot socks. These are the only socks I buy. So I basically just have shittons of each.

23. ever drive above the speed limit?

I don’t drive, so no.

24. what terrifies you?

Spiders.

25. look to your left, what do you see?

An X-Files ‘I WANT TO BELIEVE’ poster my husband got me for my birthday a few years ago.

26. what chore do you hate?

All of them.

27. what do you think of when you hear an australian accent?

Neighbours, and to a lesser extent, Home and Away

28. what is your favorite soda?

Ginger beer or Burn energy drink.

29. do you go to a fast food place or just hit the drive through?

I think I’ve been to a drive through maybe once in my life.

30. who was the last person you talked to?

Husband again!

31. favorite cut of beef?

I’m not much of a beef person and when I do have it, it’s in burger or stir fry chunks form. Horse is vastly superior.

32. last song you listened to?

September by Earth, Wind, and Fire

33. last book you read?

Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener. It’s basically the TEFL bible.

34. favorite day of the week?

I’ve been unemployed for ages so time has no meaning for me.

35. can you say the alphabet backwards?

Probably not, my brain does not work that way.

36. how do you like your coffee?

Whatever the hell they serve in Lviv cafes

37. favorite pair of shoes?

Some Sketchers slip-on trainers

38. at what time do you usually go to bed?

My sleeping pattern is fucked, I went to sleep at like 1400 yesterday

39. at what time do you usually get up?

And I woke up at 2300 so yeah

40. what do you prefer: sunrises or sunsets?

I’d take either right now, we don’t get proper darkness this time of year in Iceland and it is not helping with my sleeping problems

41. how many blankets are on your bed?

A duvet. I am always confused by this, do people have blankets in layers in America? Do you guys not have duvets? Also what is a comforter?

42. describe your kitchen plates?

White, mostly. They’re not mine, I live with my in-laws

43. do you have a favorite alcoholic beverage?

Whiskey sour, egg white and all.

44. do you play cards?

Sure, why not

45. what color is your car?

I don’t drive but my husband’s car is white

46. can you change a tire?

Yep!

47. what is your favorite province?

Ima presume this is Canada related and I’ve never been so I’m just gonna day Nova Scotia because me and him have considered moving there.

48. favorite job you ever had?

Unemployment.

49. how did you get your biggest scar?

I have a dent in my palm from falling over at school and getting a rock jammed in it, then digging it out myself with a compass.

50. what did you do today that made someone happy?

Well it’s 4am here and I’m home alone but I did make the cat very happy with an ear scratch.

[glutenfreebuddies]

Ramsgate Foodie Farmers Market:

I usually wouldn’t travel as far as Ramsgate but I made the long journey there on Saturday. The markets are held at the Ramsgate Primary school every Saturday from 8-2pm.

I went to the Gluten Free Expo in Sydney and had the most delicious donuts from GFDessert&Co. Once I found out they were headed to the foodie markets I mustered up the courage and drove there. I’m happy to report I have a well stocked freezer full of donuts.

Anywho, aside from selling fresh pesticide free fruit and vegetables the market had a few plant, clothing, ladies accessories, kids clothes, dog clothes stalls. Quite a few of the food trucks/ stalls offered gluten free, paleo and vegan options. There was a vegan bakery set up under cover.

I tried “Jessy&Co” as I’m easily tempted to throw caution to the wind and indulge in pancakes. Although her sign said gluten free and plant based I wanted to double check and ask. The staff were quite rude and said if there’s a sign it’s pretty obvious. They were too busy talking about their drinks the night before. Customer service is clearly lacking. I ended up ordering the ‘Canadian’ pancake for $12. This was four blueberry and coconut milk pancakes stacked on top of each other, topped with crunchy maple bacon, swimming in a maple syrup lake. It was delicious! The food certainly made up for the unfriendly staff.

If you’re in the area or feel like a drive it’s certainly worth a trip. Plus the beach is a five minute drive from the school too.

[gigsoupmusic]

Indian Queens Drop New Single 'Shoot For Sexy'

London 3-piece Indian Queens release new single ‘Shoot For Sexy’ (March 13th). The single is taken from their debut album ‘God Is A Woman’, set to be released on April 3rd via Cool Thing Records. As described by lead singer Jennifer O’Neill, ‘God Is A Woman’ is “a late night record, an album to put on during a dark drive, to play at the end of the party when it all slows down...”  Probably the most upbeat track on the album - 'Shoot For Sexy' is a kaleidoscopic affair with suggestive lyrics and a rolling bass groove sure to move even the firmest of hips.  The first single to be taken from the record was last month’s ‘Bubblewrap’ - a pounding, hypnotic track with dreamlike harmonies harking back to early Portishead and Massive Attack. Other tracks of note include ‘Pretty Little Thing’, with its Americana feel, and the album’s anthemic title track ‘God Is A Woman’.  Consisting of sisters Jennifer (guitar/vocals) and Katherine (bass) O’Neill, along with lifelong friend Matthew Dudan-Bick on Drums, Indian Queens were born and raised in Hackney Wick and have been making music together since their school days.  Last year the band were personally invited by Robert Smith to play the prestigious Meltdown festival alongside My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails and The Libertines.  Listen to 'Shoot For Sexy' here.  Watch the hauntingly evocative video for ‘Bubblewrap’, directed by Andy Delaney  here.  Catch Indian Queens Live in May:  Fri 01 May Ramsgate Music Hall, Ramsgate Sat 02 May The Piper, Saint Leonards-On-Sea Tue 05 May The Bunkhouse, Swansea Wed 06 May Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff Thu 07 May Cavern, Exeter Fri 08 May Heartbreakers, Southampton Sat 09 May The Shed, Leicester Sun 10 May The Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes Tue 12 May The Horn, St Albans Thu 14 May TBA, Brighton Fri 15 May TBA, Brighton Sat 16 May Esquires, Bedford Sun 17 May Oporto, Leeds Tue 19 May The Ferrett, Preston Wed 20 May The Live Rooms, Chester Thu 21 May Jimmy’s, Liverpool Fri 22 May The Polar Bear, Hull Sat 23 May Off The Square, Manchester Sun 24 May Glad Cafe, Glasgow Tue 26 May Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh Wed 27 May Surf Cafe, Tynemouth Thu 28 May The Fulford Arms, York Fri 29 May Dead Wax, Birmingham Thu 04 Jun Oslo, London Tickets available at www.facebook.com/indianqueens  About Cool Thing:  Cool Thing Records is an independent record label and artist development hub based in Southend On Sea, Essex. Set up in August 2014 by Asylums’ Luke Branch and Michael Webster, they’ve so far released music from BAIT, Beckie Margaret, The Horse Heads and Suspects. 2020 sees a packed release schedule from the label, with Indian Queens leading the charge. 

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[thesteveyates]

Wykeham-Martin that is.

I was going to call this post “enter the troll-beast” for the many problems that i consistently had with sailing Inanda for the first time.  Some things are clearly not as good as they could be, the sailing ergonomics for example are awful, but a lot of my problems last week simply came down to ‘noob’ error.  Some of you might have the mistaken impression that i am some sort of mega-experienced old salt who can sail anything, anywhere and any time.  Well, although i might in the past have been able to choreograph 26 people on the deck of a maxi doing twin-pole gybes, big spinnaker sets and drops in lots of wind and so on, Inanda has really tested my basic sailing skills and it’s been quite a humbling experience. I guess i have been spoiled by the Liberty which is almost the ultimately simple sailing experience especially given the work i did to make her even easier to sail.

Inanda by comparison is a very physical boat to sail, difficult at times to work on deck, lots of string to pull and adjust and lots of small things that can go wrong during basic sail handling that then cause further problems. In time i would simply adjust and get used to it all but there are some things that really are a problem and need changing as soon as possible.

Just to go back over the details, Inanda is a gaff cutter with a traditionally proportioned mains’l dominant rig.  The rig is relatively short but with a very long gaff and long boom.  Both the boom and the gaff have been extended and as far as i can tell the bowsprit hasn’t been extended to compensate for the extra power high up and further back.  Pete (previous owner) told me that Inanda’s previous owner actually sailed with the first reef tied in most of the time as that balanced the boat better and my experience so far is that this is true. I really only had the full main up once when i was running ‘light’ down the Solent and even then that big main wants to take over and turn the boat up into the wind.   With some form of self-steering or a mate on board i would then have hoisted more grunt up front to re-balance her but didn’t have that option on the trip.  The best and most balanced sailing i had with Inanda was during the long beats in the Thames in fairly consistent wind and little waves when i was able to balance the single reef plus jib and staysail with some degree of weather helm and the tiller pegged. In that state i was able to relax for long enough to do all the other work and not have to attend to the steering.  The polar opposite was after i lost the staysail halyard and couldn’t get the jib to deploy on it’s furling gear with over-riding the drum and had too much wind and chop to deal with….then it became a total pain to handle and increasingly difficult to sail.  The low point was beating out from behind Dungeness point where i just couldn’t get it right….kept getting things wrong during simple sail handling, couldn’t get the jib to deploy, kept having to drop the jib and bring the bowsprit traveller in, lost the staysail halyard and all while pitching into a nasty head sea.  That whole day was just exhausting with problem after problem.  Eventually that day i gave in trying to sail properly and took her down to 3 reefs and let her drive upwind on the engine running hard and the main just pulling.  Her small fuel tank then caught me out and i had to heave-to while i refilled the tank and bled the engine through.

You can see where i had to work to try and sort out the furling gear.

Each part of the rig has caused me problems and i am happy to admit that some of that just comes down to inexperience with the rig but i also want to add that some of it also comes down to the rig design and set-up and specifically the furling gear which i think is a fundamentally badly designed piece of kit. I think that for me everything that could go wrong with the furling gear did go wrong…..from getting the jib wound up with the now-slack forestay (traveller too far forward), not deploying (furling line jumped off drum) furler won’t furl (line off drum again) and so on and so on.                                                        I have never had a Wykeham-Martin furling gear before and never want one again…..this one almost got stowed in the briney when i became ultimately frustrated with it’s troll-like nature.  I did for a while seriously contemplate simply setting the jib flying or even finding a cheap bucket and banding it like a spinnaker. I do know of some quite big gaffers that set flying jibs….i think Pete’s smack works that way for example.  While i was in Newhaven i had a good look at the other small gaffer, which i think is also a Deben, to see his set-up.  He has his jib on a Wykeham Martin out on the bowsprit but doesn’t have a forestay at all so that gets rid of one problem.  I have wondered about doing that with Inanda, clearly it’s the jib luff that is doing the work once it’s under tension.    Just to back-up a bit the handling procedure seems to be :

Roll the sail into a long sausage around it’s wire luff such that there are a couple of turns of sheet around the sausage.

Attach the Jib tack to the bowsprit traveller and the head bearing unit.

Run the WM out on the traveller to a position (critical) out near the end of the bowsprit.

Hoist the sail on it’s wire halyard (it has a rope handling tail) then clip in the handy-billy tensioning tackle , heave that up and cleat that at the mast.

The sail should then deploy by pulling on a sheet although what can happen and frequently did happen is that the furling line either jumped off the drum or over-wrapped and stopped the whole thing working. A couple of times with the jib half-in and half out flogging around my head i had to to a flying drop on the pitching foredeck….not so funny in the conditions i had.

As i say i would probably have been faster and more confident with a flying set and drop especially with a stopped or banded sail.

Looking at the gear closely i think now that it’s an appalling piece of design that could have been made into a much better design years and years ago.  While quite simple it’s obvious that it has a very high possibility of losing the line off the narrow drum and getting itself wrapped around the swivel under the drum…..that is what happened to me several times per hoist.

One time was absolutely maddening :

I was in Ramsgate tied to the visitor pontoon with a big French sailing school yacht just ahead of me.  When i made to leave the skipper kindly came along and asked me if i would like an assist to help me get away.  That was kind because i had to back off into an awkward breeze and then do a reverse and tight turn.  I declined the assist simply because i need to learn how to do it all solo.  Instead i asked the French skipper if he would just ‘watch me out’ in case it all started to go wrong.   The back-off and reverse/turn went ok so i moved off into the outer harbour and came head to wind with the plan to sail smartly out of the harbour.  I had really pre-planned my sail handling moves, got the main up at 2 reefs with just a couple of glitches and then went to deploy the jib so that i could bring the head around.  Of course the furling line jumped the spool and i was left with a half-deployed jib and the boat trying to sail onto the harbour wall.  Instead of a neat bit of solo motor and sail handling it turned into a total farce of having to motor hard to get under control with my mainsheet wrapped around one bit of boat and the jib flogging away rather than pulling me down the fairway.

And of course i had the French sailing school as an audience.

Although completely traditional for this era of boat i feel no great need to stay with kit that is simply crap !, rather i will take from any era of boat technology to make my sail handling simple, safe and effective.  I want to work either from the cockpit or at worst at the mast and not have to try and balance right forward on the bow when i am trying to deploy or furl the jib.  One option as i have described already is to either put the sail in stops or bands and treat it like a spinnaker.  A second option is to look at more modern jib furlers because the tech has improved to such a huge extent with far more boats using sails on furlers….like the big reachers and gennakers on race boats.  I wouldn’t object to having a much better furler and several different headsails….my experience with Inanda so far is that she needs as standard a bigger jib and staysail.

This looks interesting which is why i took a whole series of photographs of it.  This is a powerful looking and very ‘sorted’ looking gaffer called ‘Nomad’ seen in Poole harbour. The rig proportions look much better to begin with, taller mast but with a shorter boom and gaff.  Jib and staysail on modern furlers. Both jib and staysail look longer in the luff. Running backstays and lazy-jacks to keep the mains’l under control.  Obviously it’s a much bigger boat

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So far then….

Inanda’s rig needs several changes to make the sail handling actually work so from forward-aft :

Modern furling unit for the jib/jibs and several different jibs on vectran luffs. Change jib halyard to non-twisty modern line, possibly high-end vectran.  Bring the traveller outhaul back to near the mast and the furler line to near the cockpit.

New long-luff jib with more area.

Sheet doublers to increase the available sheeting power….or a pair of sheet winches.

New staysail on hanks with more area.  Change staysail halyard to 2:1 purchase arrangement.

Mains’l.  Possibly move gooseneck band up mast a couple of inches to improve head clearance at cockpit.  Generally work with 1st reef tied in.  Change throat and peak halyards to better braid on braid and colour-code so that i can always see which is which.  Change all halyard blocks to modern low-friction blocks.    Add lazy jacks port and stbd and lead aft to cockpit.  Change reefing lines.   Replace mainsheet (crusty and worn)

Aft.   Rig running backstays.   Alter sheeting points so that i’m not trying to heave in sheets while leaning over the coaming (bad ergonomics) add 2 pairs of winches : one pair for jib sheets and a pair for running backstays.  Add attachment points aft for runners and rig soft runners from forestay/shrouds point on mast.

Have coffee break….

Sell Wykeham-Martin to some other mug via Ebay……….

  Edit 1.

Ok, lets now design the jib handling system for Inanda

Lets start by getting rid of the outer forestay just like the other Deben at Newhaven has done and keep the bowsprit traveller. Lets add a simple bowsprit downhaul tensioner and have a high-tech bobstay which we can also haul up out of the way to clear the anchor rode.

Instead of the WM lets add in a small Code zero furler with its continuous line going all the way aft.

Instead of the single halyard at hounds height lets have a 2:1 halyard at that height and a second halyard ( 2:1) at the masthead, both with furler swivels already attached. The lower halyard will be the conventional jib halyard and the 2:1 adequate for a decent hoist but not quite good enough for maximum luff tension.  We can now get a longer luffed jib for better balance and better pointing.  To get the tension back we rely on the new running backstays (3:1 + winch) to haul back on the hounds and masthead .  The second, higher,  halyard can now take a bigger overlapping reaching jib or code zero which would also be supported by the top span of a 2 part runner arrangement.

The code zero furler, even a small one, would be a very expensive piece of kit but should be a total solution to headsail furling and crucially get me off the foredeck.  The ability to fly different jibs would be useful, that would mean i could carry a standard jib but which would be longer in the luff than what i have now, and maybe a big reacher.  The stays’l will stay on hanks as that’s the ultimately simple set-up.  Just for giggles i looked at the cost of some of the high-end furlers….crikey !

We need to talk about Martin. Wykeham-Martin that is. I was going to call this post "enter the troll-beast" for the many problems that i consistently had with sailing Inanda for the first time. 

[williamemcknight]

Local authority is the UK’s first to invest in electric mowers 

In a local authority first, Thanet District Council is introducing new electric lawn-mowers to its open spaces fleet. Run on lithium-ion batteries rather than diesel, these modern mowers are greener, quieter and cheaper to run. They will be used at Ramsgate Cemetery and Margate Crematorium and are all part of the council’s commitment to creating a clean and welcoming environment in Thanet.

The council has purchased six new mowers – two commercial ride-on mowers,  two walk behind mowers and two commercial stand-on mowers to be used equally across the two sites.

Cllr Fairbrass, deputy leader of Thanet District Council said: “Electric mowers, which last for seven hours of constant work, are vastly preferable to diesel models because they generate no carbon monoxide emissions and are low noise. This mower don’t just offer public health and environmental benefits, it also reduces the risk to our staff. What’s more, they enjoy low running and maintenance costs which is part of the council’s ongoing efficiency drive.”

The key benefits include:

Improved health and safety for staff:

Significantly lower hand arm and whole body vibration levels than traditional diesel mowers

Significantly lower noise (far below the safe recommended DB rating for exposure to noise) which means no need for ear defenders

All day mowing with horsepower exceeding most commercial diesel mowers

Carbon neutral as zero emissions and exhaust fumes which emit carcinogenic fumes

Lower operating costs -costing only 6p an hour to charge up overnight

Low maintenance costs as no belts, filters, hydraulics, cables or engine

Minimal background disruption for nearby homes, businesses and schools

Quiet enough for use at crematoriums and cemeteries

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English seaside towns will transform "like Brooklyn" says artist Bob and Roberta Smith

As high rents continue to drive artists out of London, the UK's seaside towns are set to become the creative hubs of the country, according to British artist Bob and Roberta Smith.

Bob and Roberta Smith – the pseudonym used by artist Patrick Brill – said that the increasing cost of living in the capital will benefit cities in the north of England, and will also have a huge impact on seaside towns across the country.

"The north is going to become an incredible centre for art, and all these seaside towns are as well, because they are underused as a facility and they are amazing places to be," he told Dezeen.

The artist is one of the participants of this year's Folkestone Triennial, an art festival that takes place in an old port town in Kent. He claimed that Folkestone, and other British seaside towns, will transform in the same way Brooklyn did when Manhattan rents rose.

"It would be a much better life living down in Folkestone, and when that happens all these places will become like Brooklyn, and that's a good thing, it brings jobs in other ways as well," he said.

Artists are already moving out of London

A number of high-profile artists have already swapped London for towns on the British coastline. For instance, last year Tracey Emin announced she was moving her studio to the Kent coast.

Bob and Roberta Smith has set up his own studio Ramsgate, also on Kent's coast, to make the most of cheaper rents. However he splits his time with London, where he as an associate professor at London Metropolitan University.

Locals in these towns often describe the former city dwellers using the derogatory phrase Down From London (DFL).

But Bob and Roberta Smith argues that this influx of new people into other parts of the UK is no bad thing, as a steady draw away from the capital will help to foster new creative scenes, which in turn will boost local economies.

British artist Bob and Roberta Smith used his contribution to this year's Folkestone Triennial to show how seaside towns can become centres for art

"I have a studio in Ramsgate that I couldn't possibly afford in London – that's why we're there, it's just that economic thing, that's why we're in Ramsgate," he said.

"It's not that I'm advocating second homes but I do think these towns benefit from growth and aspiration."

Folkestone is great place for a new art school, claims artist

Several English seaside towns are already hotspots for creative activity, thanks to events like the Folkestone Triennial. Established in 2008, the art exhibition has seen a number of international artists contribute, and the 2014 event attracted a total of 135,000 visitors.

Tourists are also being lured by a series of new art galleries on the seafront, including the David Chippefield-designed Turner Contemporary in Margate, the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings and the newly extended Tate St Ives in Cornwall.

Bob and Roberta Smith's contribution to this Folkestone Triennale is an installation called Folkestone is an Art School, designed to show how the town could cater to the arts, by building a new art school.

He hopes the installation will also drum up more support for arts education, which he says is  "not being taken so seriously".

His concern, that "art just disappears", follows the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) in UK secondary schools, which places a stronger focus on English, Mathematics, sciences, foreign languages, history and geography, rather than on creative subjects. The change was recently reported to have caused a significant decline in exam entries for arts subjects.

"One of the things we need in this country is a child art movement again," he said. "We need groups of people to think about how exciting it is to get people engaged in the arts, not because people with good GCSEs then become David Shrigley, or Bob Roberta Smith or Tracey Emin, but because it is good for democracy."

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Bob and Roberta Smith is one 19 artists who have contributed to this year's Folkestone Triennial, which continues until 2 November 2017.

Others include David Shrigley, who has recreated one of the town's Victorian-era street lights from memory, and Richard Woods, who has built cartoon bungalows as a comment on the housing crisis.

Read an edited version of the interview with Bob and Roberta Smith:

Eleanor Gibson: Tell me about your project.

Bob and Roberta Smith: What we're doing is asking the town to teach itself art essentially in that project. So I'm declaring the town an artwork essentially in a conceptual sense. Essentially, we're saying it's a challenge to Folkestone Triennial, it's a challenge to the whole city culture and to all of these kind of projects to say: "Well can you enact it? Can you get something out of it? If you put all of this infrastructure into a town, or if you put all of this activity into a town, what are the ripples really about?"

So basically we're inviting artists in the town to become a faculty and then they will teach the next generation. That's the nuts and bolts of the project.

Eleanor Gibson: How does it relate to the theme of this year's triennial, Double Edge?

Bob and Roberta Smith: I think the idea of the Double Edge is quite funny because you have one group, that's one edge, which is the experienced artists of this town. And then you've got the other, which is the vanguard kids who are going to be mainly 17 to 23 year olds, who will be our main cohort of students. So it's really putting those two things together and saying, if cultural regeneration or activity works in this situation, surely we can challenge the next generation to make art? So it's about that really.

We need groups of people to think about how exciting it is to get people engaged in the arts

Eleanor Gibson: We recently published a report on the alarming drop of students taking art and design at GCSE. Why do you think this is?

Bob and Roberta Smith: It's a multitude of things, one is the collapse in the political belief behind the arts, principally because of the redesign of the subject offer, which is called the EBacc. Without being too technical, it means that a headteacher has to be very very pro-arts for there to be an art department in your school.

So there will be some schools that become really quite good because they've been given new freedoms by government initiatives, but the other schools, mainly in the difficult areas, art just disappears. That's had a knock on effect in primary education, arts not being taken so seriously.

One of the things we need in this country is a child art movement again. We need groups of people to think about how exciting it is to get people engaged in the arts, not because people with good GCSEs then become David Shrigley, or Bob Roberta Smith or Tracey Emin, but because it is good for democracy. You need people to feel confident to be able to speak and you can only learn to speak or be taught to speak really. You know you've got to be able to sing and write and perform for your voice to get out there. So it's really about democracy.

Eleanor Gibson: Why do you think it important for initiatives like Folkestone Triennial to promote arts outside of London? For example, Richards Woods pieces is making a statement about holiday homes in these places...

Bob and Roberta Smith: I don't agree with Richard actually, partly because I am a classic DFL. I live in London but my studio is in Ramsgate. And actually the way Ramsgate is transforming is great. Because small industries used to be located outside of London and people weren't flying off on holiday. That receded, and all these incredible Victorian buildings started crumbling and the infrastructure fell apart. And that's a more complex issue then saying it's terrible that second-home owners are moving down.

It would be a much better life living in down in Folkestone

My daughter is in London and she's never going to own a house in London, never ever. But she could later on move down here. It would be a much better life living in down in Folkestone, and when that happens all these places will become like Brooklyn and that's a good thing. It brings jobs in other ways as well.

Eleanor Gibson: So could there be a benefit to more people having second homes?

Bob and Roberta Smith: No I don't think that necessarily, but I think certainly London is one of the hubs. The only thing that will happen when London becomes unaffordable is the north is going to become an incredible centre for art, but also all these seaside towns are as well, because they are underused as a facility and they are amazing places to be.

I have a studio in Ramsgate that I couldn't possibly afford in London, that's why we're there, it's just that economic thing, that's why we're there.

So it's that sort of thing. It's not that I'm advocating second homes but I do think these towns benefit from growth and aspiration.

Eleanor Gibson: Another edge to whole the Triennial is the EU Referendum and Kent's vote to leave, did this affect your piece at all?

Bob and Roberta Smith: I made film in Ramsgate advocating that we stay in the EU. I took a painting saying we've only got each other and went into the channel, and we made a film about that. I think that EU referendum thing – people were lied to essentially and we're dealing with the aftermath of it now. Brexit is completely undeliverable and it will never happen in the shape and form that Brexiteers really want it to happen. What will happen, I think, is we will slip into the sludge of some sort of crazy idea. We are in Europe, it's inescapable, unfortunately, or fortunately as I think.

Eleanor Gibson: Do you think that Brexit will affect the arts?

Bob and Roberta Smith: I spent most of my career travelling around doing exhibitions, mostly in northern Europe and in Italy, and I don't want barriers to that to happen for me or for artists coming into the UK. There are too many barriers like that.

I teach in a university a couple of days a week. The government's idea, the Home Office's view on overseas students is just destroying British universities, because it's all based upon trying to get overseas students in to cope with the fact that the fees will never be, the loans system is a joke so that's a mess. I do worry about it but I also think that people are people, and this is a moment, where art and humanity are bigger than one boat. It's not the world.

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