Sheppey: classic or dud?

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has anyone ever been to Sheppey? what did you think. Momus, is it your sort of place? *ducks*.

― gareth, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never been there but a big "Bo!" or "Bling!" or something to Mark S. for recommending Nicola Barker's "Wide Open" to me (set on Sheppey). I could not put it down. That's what comes of buying it from a glue shop I suppose.

Oh yeah Gareth I started Babylon and it looks really good. I've stopped it until my long train journey on Sunday though.

― Tom, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm actually reading Barker's Wide Open at the moment. i like it so far. i went to Sheppey once about 4 years ago, and it is a strange place. like 1958, tired and poor, but strangely beautiful. i'm pondering the idea of going on holiday there in November. I don't know if this is even possible, but i've wanted an english november seaside holiday for a while, and Sheppey is a contender, along with King's Lynn

― gareth, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A glue shop??? Is that a London thing?

― Billy Dods, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is certainly my sort of place, especially the remote eastern bit the Isle of Harty. Do you like desolate marshes and huge skies, or is it rundown seaside resorts that particularly attract you? (I like both).

― David Inglesfield, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never been, though I lived in North Kent for 13 years. I'd like to go, but I don't think there'd be any point now.

They (i.e. the Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency) kicked the Tories out in 1997 though (8 Labour gains in Kent in one night: previously the county had been all blue since '79) and Labour held the seat this year, so that's pretty damn classic.

Have you considered Portland (where I live) this November, Gareth? Could we do the Burton Bradstock trip together? Actually we should take this one offlist ...

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

I live on the Island. Kill me now.

― peter spokes, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Peter Plodes: Golf Caddy" (Brass Eye, 5/3/97)

"Peter Spokes, Isle of Sheppey" (ILE, 16/11/01)

*hmmm*

Why should I kill you? Your island kicked the Tories out four years before my island did, for a start ...

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

and now its mentioned in radon daughters

― gareth, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in Eastchurch on the Island and its a great little village with mostly nice people and a fairly close community. Very low crime rate and almost safe enough to leave your cars unlocked at night! Holiday makers a pain in the arse in the summer tho, driving too fast through the village! If you are one of those then SLOW DOWN PLEASE!

― as above, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/leysdown5.jpg

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/leysdown6.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 21 September 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

That well-known American resort Leysdown-on-Sea..

― David (David), Saturday, 21 September 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

ha David your statement reminds me of the John Barry Seven's version of "Walk Don't Run" which I've just been listening to - ersatz suburban Englishness as Atlanticism.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 21 September 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

thsoe 2 pictures fascinate me, becuase they are are so at odds with my image of sheppey, (the marshes, the solitude, the emptyness - well, you've read nicola barkers wide open, right?). but its kind of more varied than that, leysdown is very different from the rest of the island, like a 1950s scarboro, in the middle there is a strangely medittarenean section that doesn't feel like england at all. the rest is how you would imagine, the prison is unnerving though, the bus that traverses the length of the island diverts into the interior, turns in a big car park and then stops at the prison bus stop, where someones mum might get on, faced with a journey of who knows how long.

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 21 September 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

sheppey RULES! the best place in kent! and why sum 1 wide open?

― Sheppey Hard Nut,, Monday, 13 October 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

sheppey is full of chavs! what are chavs you may ask? well a chav is normally aged about 12 to 18 they have short cropped hair with the fringe combed forward. they wear a baseball cap but they wear it perched on the top of their head. they wera a sport scarf, football top, reebok jacket, white addidas trousers, they roll their socks under their feet and they wear reebok classics worn with the laces undone tucked inside but very loose so that when they walk their feet slip out. they wear loads of big chunky gold cheap rings they hang around in gangs who all look like one another and they think they are black the way they talk and they listen to so called music called garage. and sheppey is full of em they are horrible.

― colin, Monday, 27 October 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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