Folkestone was on TV last night, on BBC2, a new programme were Andi Oliver travels round cooking food. This was a bit crap though, she made out it was a war zone down here and the only thing that could bring the community together was her making some dumplings. Because it had a multicultural theme, and the chef from Rocksalt is Polish, and we do have a big Nepalese community, and she found one person from Ukraine and two from Syria, and HEY all these countries like a dumpling! So contrived. Really focussed on things like the traffic queueing up in Dover when the port has problems there, and the migrant boats arriving, and then showed footage of racist demonstrators outside the barracks up the road. Not representative of the area. Then there was the "hey I just spotted a bandstand over there" and "I think more people should know there is a Nepalese community here".
The main other person in the show was some johnny-come-lately from Ashford too. Get back to Ashford mate.
There were two people I know actually featured in it (Chris Smith from Chambers and Shane Record from Shane Record) and I spotted a couple more in the background. It's worth watching this programme only if she features a town you are familiar with, otherwise no.
Working from home today, partly to run around after Clare.
Also there's free energy again today, for two hours1. They could do with some of this at the school, their heating has packed up and T2 is allowed to wear non uniform today to stay warm. Well sort of, PE kit with joggers and hoodie, still school colours, not completely free-form. T1 has an even more complicated "non uniform PE top" day today, he can wear a sports top of his choice to raise some funds for the Bobby Moore cancer charity.
Light rain and a moderate breeze, 6 - 12℃.
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