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Borrowing Cats Tangents: Happy New Year
Guide to Macabre New-Year Folklore (fun, researched, a little creepy)
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Borrowing Cats — December Drift
Merry Christmas Everyone
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Christmas in Margate: Bells, Beef, Snowball Wars & Seaside Chaos
A Borrowing Cats: Margate Archive Special
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Borrowing Cats: Tangents-Did Santa Start Out as a Mushroom-Munching Shaman?
Reindeer, red caps, and a chimney crawl — or a 19th-century remix with a juicy myth stuck on top? Let’s dig in.
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Borrowing Cats: Tangents -Taken — Two True Abduction Nightmares
From Italy to Mississippi, two men claimed the night took them
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Borrowing Cats: Tangents-The Smugglers of Birchington
Lanterns on the cliff, whispers in the chalk
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Margate Archive: Salmestone in November – Fire, Faith and Fresh Paint
When Chapels Burn, Blessings Follow
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Borrowing Cats: Tangents-Halloween
From Samhain to Supermarkets: How Bin Bags, Blockbusters, and Billions Made Halloween What It Is Today — plus a quick detour to Canterbury’s “What…
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Borrowing Cats: Tangents The Woman from the Hollow Boat
When the sea delivered a mystery Japan could not explain
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Borrowing Cats: Tangents-A Halloween Cabinet of True Horrors and Half-Believed Hauntings
The veil’s thin, the nights are long, and the stories are darker
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Borrowing Cats: Tangents-Maniacs & Messiahs of Kent
Four uneasy lives from the South-East: a self-anointed saviour, a dockyard terror (maybe), a marshland “madman,” and a genuine psychopath
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Borrowing Cats: Tangents -The Witches of Canterbury, Penenden Heath & Beyond
“They called her a witch, but in her eyes the wind was a familiar.”
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Margate Archive: Margate’s October
From Parliament Panic to Rollercoaster Comebacks
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Margate Archive: The Hooden Horse
An East Kent Custom – Retold in Borrowing Cats Style
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Borrowing Cats
Borrowing Cats
Quirky name? Sure. Does it make sense? Not really—but then again, what does? But it's history, my home town of Margates past, darker tales and the odd nod to pop culture
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