Blog2026 ≫ Fine shopping in Ashford

We changed our plan for a train journey to and from Ashford to just driving in the end. We thought traffic and parking might be a nightmare, but I weighed it up against waiting around at the station in the cold and paying for four train tickets. Parking and traffic were busy but ok. We bought new shoes for one, and new trainers for the other, and a new saucepan with our christmas money, and a USB rechargeable salt mill just on a whim. Then a nice Pizza Express. I had the new harissa aubergine and it was good. Not drinking obvs, but still came to over £100 as food is expensive now.

I'm glad Stranger Things is over now. I didn't watch the end of it, the boys are in dispute over whether it ended well or not. I said if you want to invest in a long series that goes out with a disappointing ending may I introduce Lost..? Wife says absolutely no, never again. Now we are free to choose other things, so we watched the new Death In Paradise and then they watched new Traitors. Not sure I can stick it though so I did a bit of the coding I just mentioned and then back to my new Slow Horses book.

Sunny and a gentle breeze, -3 - 1℃.

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Paulʼs weblog - I live in A sleepy town, Kent. Married + dad to two, I'm a full stack web engineer, + I do js / node, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubs, parkrun, restaurants, home automation 🤖 and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + time travel.

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