I’m just from a weeks bucket and spade holiday with my family. We thought rather than Dorset, our regular haunt for such holidays, we’d try Broadstaris on the Isle of Thanet. Great place. Lots to do with yound kids. WHAT AMAZING AMOUNTS OF GRAFFITI AND LITTER. Being a councillor in Southwark I regularly report graffiti. Southwark Council removes it within one working day with the property owners permission. In Broadstairs the graffiti just doesn’t shift. All week the same graffiti stayed – and a lot more than we’re used to these days in Southwark. They also have a litter problem. Again Southwark Council is the 3rd cleanest borough in London and it really showed in comparison with this seaside holiday towns litter problem.

So I relaxed but not as much as I wanted to.