Editor’s Letter
Summer has had a stuttering start, weather-wise, but that is often the case in Kent and it will soon be time for the school summer holidays to start.
The six-week break is great for the kids, but not so much fun for parents if they both work and need to make child-care arrangements. Children usually need a rest after a long year at their desks and it is time for them to kick back and relax.
I grew up in the Northern Ireland countryside where we had glorious 10-week summer holidays, which I spent fishing for trout on the Sixmilewater near Templepatrick in County Antrim. Come rain or shine, I’d be on the banks often walking for miles before making my way home – mostly uphill – on my bike.
My dad would sometimes be sent out looking for me, finding a weary soul trudging up the hill near our home close to midnight. No one seemed too worry too much, or perhaps I simply did not notice. Looking back, they seem like carefree days and I suppose they were.
Summer holidays are always the perfect way for families to get reacquainted in a world where parents lead such busy lives.
I hope there is plenty in this 64-page edition of Mid Kent Living to give you ideas for outdoor pursuits, eating and drinking, days out or evenings of entertainment.
There really is a lot to see and do in this part of the county.
There are outdoor plays in National Trust gardens, indoor opera at Leeds Castle and performances in Folkestone’s burgeoning Creative Quarter, to name but a few.
Up the road at Chatham’s Historic Dockyard, there is the multi-million pounds project to bring the age of the sail back to life with a display of HMS Namur’s 260-year-old timbers, a ship once thought lost to history but which was discovered two decades ago under the Wheelwright’s Shop on the site.
It is an extraordinary story – not just how she was brought back but how those served on board lived their lives. It is well worth a visit, I am told.
We also have an interview with former police commander David Hatcher who now devotes much of his time to the ShelterBox charity which delivers aid directly into disaster zones. What an inspiration he is.
So get inspired this summer!
Simon Simon Finlay, Editor
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