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 Tasty Bites Benfleet restaurant Essex Burger and chips This is a café situated in the High Road, South Benfleet always seems to be busy whatever time of day, and it deserves to be. They offer a fast service, freshly cooked food, and a large menu including pie mash and liquor, roast dinners on Sundays, burgers, full breakfasts and much more. My Mum likes it too, and she is a good critic! Continue reading Tasty Bites cafe restaurant review, South Benfleet, Essex  Giraffe exterior Lakeside Essex I visited this restaurant for the first time recently, as chips and burgers and that kind of food are only an occasional treat. We tried the ribs, chips, corn on the cob, onion rings and chicken pieces. All was tasty and hot and pleasantly served by our waitress. This fairly large restaurant has some nice comfy booths to relax in and the service is relaxed yet efficient. I will visit again, when I fancy that kind of cuisine when I am shopping at Lakeside.
 Giraffe restaurant Lakeside Essex ribs and snacks Date of visit – April 201 Continue reading Giraffe restaurant review, Lakeside, Thurrock, Essex
I want to tell you about a new series of books for children created by local Canvey illustrator, Colin Wyatt – they are animated, colourful and help raise awareness of the problems faced by a selection of animals in the wild and even better, all profits will go to the animal charity, the Born Free Foundation. A little about Colin… Colin Wyatt has been an illustrator since 1957 where he worked for Amalgamated Press, which later became IPC magazines, on children’s comics such as Jack and Jill and playhour. But from 1970 IPC bought the Disney franchise and he began working on the prestigious job of illustrating Disney characters for annuals, monthlies and weeklies – his dream job. During those years, he was even invited out to the Disney studios in Burbank, California where he and his family were able to see films being made and animation in action. Later turning freelance for a few years, Colin co-created the Poddington Peas in 1985. Colin worked on all the animation and Paul Needs from Hadleigh, Essex, wrote the stories. So Continue reading Poddington Peas co founder Colin Wyatt of Canvey launches new childrens books to help animal charity Born free I am pleased to say that my aerial photos of Essex, Yorkshire and the Orkney Islands have been very successful. I have now supplied to South Woodham Ferrers (Essex) Council for their website here: http://www.southwoodhamferrerstc.gov.uk/aerial-photograph . Also, The Royal Geographic Society bought one for their new project ‘Discovering Britain’ which is a series of walks that will help people to explore and discover the beauty, wildlife and landscapes of Britain. I supplied to them a photo of Two tree Island, Essex. The website is in progress so my photo and the walks are not on there yet, but do check it out soon and maybe you can discover Britain too! http://www.discoveringbritain.org Yorkshire Life and Essex Life magazine have printed various photos and on top of that, I have sold Essex, Yorkshire and Orkney Scotland aerial photos to various private buyers, who wanted to give them as presents to loved ones. It’s a great idea as a present, birthday, Christmas or otherwise and I have supplied photos through the postal service as well as emailing j-pegs directly I have aerial photos of many areas of Britain and my prices are well under other peoples, so if Continue reading My aerial photo service of Essex, Yorkshire and the Orkneys, Scotland take off! Well, I have to admit I didnt watch all of ‘I’m a celebrity, get me out of here’ but I am so proud that yet again (just like X Factor with Stacey Solomon and Olly Murs) the two finalists were Mark Wright and Dougie Poynter. I didnt even know the Dougie, bass guitarist and vocalist for McFly was from Corringham in Essex, so I was really surprised. Both of them appeared lovely in the show and all the other celebrities really loved them both. They both said that they couldnt have picked a better person to be in the final with, and their last banquet was huge, with garlic bread, lasagne, spaghetti meatballs, deep pan pizza, sticky toffee pudding, chocolate brownies and milk drinks (cant believe they didnt want a beer!) and after their last bushtucker trial of genitalia, bumholes, fish eyes and various insects, it was amazing that they even wanted to eat. Well done boys! Mark Wright isnt just a showboy on The only way is essex, or TOWIE as everyone likes to call it, and Dougie isnt just a popstar – they got through the jungle and Continue reading I’m a celebrity lets all go to Essex! Mark Wright and Dougie Poynter well done! Maison Noir in Hadleigh, Essex – review to follow shortly…  dale farm October 29 2011 Basildon Essex copyright Sandra M Dean I thought I would take some aerial photos of Dale farm in Basildon, Essex now that the eviction has taken place and the council are clearing the land… Apart from a few caravans the land has mainly been cleared. More photos to follow… Continue reading Dale farm Basildon Essex aerial photos after eviction Oh dear! After always recommending this restaurant to everyone and going there several times, we were finally let down this evening by the Manager of all people! The menu looked so good too and the chef’s there have never let us down whether it be a Sunday lunch, a three course a’ la carte meal or a seafood platter – the head chef has always helped us with what we would like to eat, such as special sauces etc. So, I cannot have any complaint there. But, tonight we walked in without a booking and after looking at her paper reservation list, the manager, who I do not remember seeing before, told us that we could not sit in the restaurant as we requested as they were fully booked for the evening. So, we sat in the bar area, although we did not want to. I got chilly, as the bar area was not too warm and the door is located nearby. We asked for sparkling water, ice and lemon and she left the unopened bottle on the Continue reading Cafe Rococo in Leigh on sea, Essex let us down big time! Today is the day the Irish travellers settled on Dale farm, Essex are to be evicted by the Basildon Council. This is to be an expensive project – up to £18 million to be spent on the eviction itself. These travellers are Ethnic Irish travellers and have been living on the green belt site for over 10 years, knowing all the time that they were wrongfully living there. They lost their battle a few weeks ago to stay on the site and have been refusing to go. Continue reading Dale Farm eviction today at Basildon, Essex of Irish travellers  Southend on sea carnival on the seafront 2011 All by accident, I stumbled upon the Southend on sea carnival on Saturday night (20th August 2011). I was having dinner overlooking Eastern Esplanade, when we heard it coming along. So glad we did too, as there was a huge effort clearly involved in the dress, activities, music and vehicles this year. From ‘Cotton eye Joe’ to dance music, the parade had something for everyone and seemed particularly lively. I had no idea it started in Chalkwell, so it is a long parade and is on every year. I have seen it before, but it seemed like there were many more floats this year to me. Continue reading Southend on sea Essex carnival 2011 very colourful! |
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