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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

RE: WEIRD non news story about ASDA

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

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....

You can now reply or post reviews here using Twitter

Everyone's got Twitter, right? See Folkestone Gerald's official twitter feed, and wherever you see Twitter on the page, click there to post your comment on Twitter, including a code that will be picked up again by this site. Clever stuff!Likewise you...

Still no review of The Cure then

Had a good time at the gig, though as previously mentioned our seats were shocking. I'm not a fan of big gigs like that anyway, but would prefer not to go again than to be stuck at the back like that. Check the block you're being offered before confi...

Experience your fear of clowns

Would you like to be frightened by a clown?Afraid of Clowns? Ever see a movie with a creepy clown and get scared to death? Believe it or not, there are people out there who like to be scared. This idea came to me when a friend mentioned they love sca...

I was just thinking about plectrums the other day

found one in the house, think I got it from a Darkness gig. I used to have tonnes of them from various gigs, but I didn't ever keep track of which one came from which gig. You are lucky, if ever this is a demand for plectrums from Big Country gigs, y...

Free tickets for the Sellindge music festival

We're putting together a street marketing team for Sellindge Music Festival (5, 6, 7 June 2009 - www.sellindgemusicfestival.com), and wondered if you know any enthusiastic music fans that would like to be part of the team! We need marketers to get po...

I don't talk about work so much any more

Just got an email about Stone Gods tickets being on sale, that's half of The Darkness, and are supposed to be great. This made me check here for tickets, which popped up this rambling missive about an incident where I used to work, or at the very lea...

Some details from this week's Herald about Gate 28

According to the Folkestone Herald:It's under new ownership because Roger DeHaan sold the freehold, hmm why would he do that? I wonder if it's because Jimmy Godden has been buying up properties on the same street.The same owner owns the Gate Inn in H...

What is it about local newspaper that makes mentals write in?

Do these people not have blogs? See the comments

Talk about hedging your bets

New KISS t-shirts. I guess they're saying "just make sure you vote", but it's a bit like selling arms to both sides of the war isn't it?...

It is about the Whole World Cafe in the Old high street

when you go in the cafe you do not know what to do i.e self serve or be sit and be served.. it turns out it depends on the mood of the owner. The eldery Irish lady seemed bored to be there but i did order my food which was hard work as the black boar...

Really? A message about Marthas, here?

Is it even still open?

No more news about Gate 28 reopening then?

I found nothing on Facebook, except a group saying "wouldn't it be good if it reopened"... it's still under offer, and still has not changed internally so I guess it could happen fairly quickly. If you have any more specific info please post it up he...

Got an email about the School of Art

From Eamon Everall no less:Hi, you ask for info on Folkestone School of Art , I went there from 1966 to 1967. When i went it was where the multi story car park opposite the junction of Alexandra Gardens & Middleburg Square, now is. More or less oppo...

RE: Sad about Dave

I lurk alot Pauly! this is still the best gig/event guide - cheers for your hard work

Sorry about the wonky phone numbers!

I've had a problem on the site with some of the phone numbers getting corrupted:Please can you change the tiger inns number as its on alot of your telephone numbers for businesses in folkstone ie.. imperial hotel, burstan hotel, hawkinge community ce...

Sad about Dave

This sunny weather would have been just right to see a dolphin leaping about.
Good to know you're still checking the site out Mick.

Four videos on the blog at once, that's not what it's all about

Just tried to give blood, and after waiting for an hour, I had to give up and come back to work, bah. So now I am bursting with an extra pint of blood that I wasn't expecting to be carrying around with me! It's going to take a real extra effort to ge...

This is about how good I am on the guitar now

I can't decide if this is brilliant, or if he's doing all the complex stuff with his vocals. Entertaining anyway, if a bit long. Enough about the song, this performance is good too:(Hmm not sure I can embed, here it is).I first saw him doing Teardrop...

These guys rave about The India

Not sure I trust these guys, they do make it sound good, but we did not have a good meal there and I don't have faith in the place.It's had no positive votes from visitors to this site, anyone visited recently?...

Simple Minds, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark in Glasgow