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The Frog and Frigate has closed

Means nothing to most of you (if anyone's reading this), but I used to go there a lot. didn't quite make it last time we planned, which looks like it might have been the last of the the Frog. It has closed down before and reopened, we'll see...The Fr...

Strange ebay shop

These are not just adverts, these are original adverts for products you will recognise, hand cut from pages of the NME and the Melody Maker, and lovingly posted to you in a cardboard tube. Um, yes, bargain. Plenty of old NMEs around, cut out all the ...

Pixies tickets!

The Pixies 01/10/09 and 02/10/09 £44.2 - 54.8 Olympia Theatre, Dublin (or tout it), then to the UK:Pixies 04/10/09 £71.50 Glasgow SECC Pixies 06/10/09 £73.70 Brixton Academy Pixies 07/10/09 £75.00 Brixton Academy Pixies 08/10/...

Cool baby grows

If only babies didn't grow so fast, and need changing every ten minutes, these Slayer and AC/DC baby grows would be cool! Or there are loads of cool (but too expensive, including postage) at www.punkbabyclothes.net. Maybe not this one particularly:I ...

Remember all those stories in the news about family tax credit being RUBBISH?

Just registering for family tax credit, well Clare is. Had to phone up to get a form, the guy on the phone asked our income now taking into account the fact Clare is on maternity, and we'll get about twenty quid a week probably. That's just the estim...

Nice pub shame about the welcome!!

It saddens me to think in these days of hard times for pubs that certain pubs dont make an effort to be more user friendly. It is the second time I have been to this pub and have walked through the door be not greeted with a hello or welcome, but rat...

Folkestone - the place of dreams

Only 1100 views of this video so far, and it was the lead story in the local paper last week! Quite a good job done on this I think, good work whoever you are. It's generated some debate....

Don't forget it's an old school night at the Frog and Frigate tomorrow

Some people are calling it a reunion, but I think it's going to be more like one of those "songs from the war" type nights that they have at the Leas Cliff Hall. Doesn't start until 10pm, lordy, we used to go at about 6pm back in the day...Hmm, they ...

About to attempt bath #4

Feed time for Harry now, then going to try another bath. He's not keen so far, first bath was a proper screamer, next one he was OK with, then yesterdays was bad once again. Will report back on this one, possibly days later before I'm back on the com...

Could these baby gadgets cancel each other out?

Now we have Slumber Bear I wonder if he will cause some sort of conflict with the Babysense monitor? We have both, and they are both great, but I wonder... Babysense monitor gives a warning and then an alarm goes off if baby gets out of bed / cot / p...

The more times you post about this on here

The further it pushed Folkestone Gerald up the google rankings! Stop mentioning it here!

Remember to vote people!

Lovely day today, nice to have a little stroll before work. And as a bonus I got to do my bit fighting against fascism! Didn't actually get to vote against the BNP locally, our ward is seemingly not deprived and ill educated enough to put up a candid...

New Monkey Island games!

New Monkey Island games! Brilliant! Monkey Island is coming to the WII (if I understood that right)......

Aargh, you wait ages for a chest of drawers...

Now two came up at once! You can't buy this one new any more... and it's also in Maidstone, where we're off to collect the last one we bought at the weekend... Must... stop... self...UPDATE: Didn't realise at first, that's the same people selling as ...

Reading the Google Wave developer guide

Weird having access to this but not actually having access to Google Wave itself. COOL that there are interesting new things online to work on right now (this following hot on the heels of Jetpack, shame that they're coming at a time when I'll have n...

M20 pile-up this morning

Held me up on the way in to work, turns out it was the wife's cousin's car that was upside down in front of us on the motorway! His car was hit by a truck, no idea who was at fault yet, he is in intensive care but stable. Broken arm and leg and fract...

Oh yeah Ricky Gervais tickets available now

Tickets for 6th October or 7th October. Plus as previously mention all those other towns. Seriously though, even he's not worth going to Blackpool for....

Lazy day today

Going to the library this morning, then - gasp - not lunching in Canterbury, and staying locally this afternoon too. We were meant to have visitors today but we unfortunately had to put them off... there is a strange sort of calm in the air, like som...

Ricky Gervais tickets

Woo, after my call for tickets for Ricky Gervais (my sister was very keen to see him in Winchester) there is a full tour including Portsmouth Guildhall (6th, 7th, and 8th of October). So that works out well for everyone then! He's also doing Glasgow,...

A non slating comment about cafe belge

i went to cafe belge canterbury with my parter in april and recieved a very good service i read the comment from the vegiterian couple and think maybie they should go to a green grocers for lunch?its very hard i think for restaurants to satisfy every...

@pauly #m12603 woo hoo cannot wait to see the walls sweating Al passing out and everyone on tables.

@pauly woo hoo cannot wait to see the walls sweating Al passing out and everyone on tables....

The Frog and Frigate reunion

There's no danger of anyone reading this and knowing what I'm on about and not knowing about this as you would have been copied in to the same email, but ooh look, Derek back at the Frog and Frigate! There will be a Frog and Frigate reunion party on ...

Regardez, Ecoutez et Repetez

Update from my celebrity friend MJ Hibbett:it's RELEASE DAY for "Regardez, Ecoutez et Repetez", our brand new album which is available from most online retailers and download sites and also from our website www.mjhibbett.com.Secondly, to celebrate th...

RE: Got an email about the School of Art

Folkestone School of Art was a fine place to be. I was there from 69-71, when it finally closed down. Gerald Norden a technically very gifted painter was the Principal. Died 2002 I think and was a friend of the late John Ward. David Koster who I beli...

Anyone got anything to say about Folkestone that doesn't involve machetes?

Lordy all these tweeting and retweeting, see what the front page of the Gerald looks like at the moment! @rmtimes seems to have broken the story and we've all passed it on, and every time someone else passed it on I've retweeted them because they men...

High speed rail link timetables out

New high speed rail timetable released today, slight repost from www.folkestonegerald.com. Still claiming under an hour from Folkestone to London on the new trains, which are due in December. ...

RE: WEIRD non news story about ASDA

School project I'd say; the spelling and grammar is appalling.

Spot the deliberate missteak in our new cot

No it's not that we've left the cot next to the radiator like that, or that an active baby could probably climb out of that window (the cot will be moved from this spot before we put the baby in it). It's not even that There's a big pile of CD's and ...

WEIRD non news story about ASDA

Found this on twitter a strange non story about a man preventing a DISASTER nearly caused by some people stopping at the end of the escalator? Is it an hilarious spoof? Or is it a school project website? It just gets weirder the more times I read it....

#hamageddon comes to Fareham!

Hmm, maybe not, but Someone in Fareham who has been to Mexico has been told to stay off work, just in case... A worker at a Fareham company who returned from holiday in Mexico has been told to stay at home as a precaution against swine flu.Managers a...

Beverley Knight - Seated

Style: ?Urban? ?R&B? Check out: ?The B-Funk? ?Who I Am? ?Who I Am? Beverley Knight TicketsGET ME IN! is part of Ticketmaster, the world?s largest...

Hairspray (Touring)