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Enjoy Lounge On The Farm festival everyone

Sounds like it will be great. One member of our baby club is going, bah her kid is off to a better gig headstart already than ours. Still a bit early for us I think.Don't forget Folkestone's own Hevy festival on the 1st of August, right after pay day...

Due day plus SIX

These extra days are rattling along a bit fast now, the big event must surely be any minute. Every day in the few fuzzy seconds between dreaming (last night that I'd sold lots of our stuff, can't remember what now) and being awake I have a little tho...

Emergency trip to hospital!

No, not us, of course, still no sign of the baby yet, but poor bro-in-law. Accident at work and has lost the tip of his finger, blee! Sister is threatening to show me video footage of the finger, after it was squished like a tomato but before the hos...

Is there not a Cafe Belge in Covent Garden?

I've been to something like that there, long time ago now, 1996 or so!I am a vegan, but very rarely eat at the greengrocers.Ah Belgo that's what I'm thinking of, must be very similar....

New opening times for Karl's (Canterbury)

Please note the change in opening times from 1st May at Karl'sMonday - Wednesday and Saturday - 9:00am to 6:00pmThursday - 9:00am to 9:30pm (last orders for food & drinks at 8:30pm) *Friday - 9:00am to 9:30pm (last orders for food & drinks at 8:30pm)...

Nice day in Canterbury (and FWOTD)

Planned to go to a car boot sale in Etchinghill this morning, but the weather wasn't good so we did not. Just called into Dom's for a coffee on the way to Canterbury. Took a picturesque route cross country to rejoin the main road to Canterbury and s...

Zizzi offer: Kids eat free over easter

Download the voucher, and enjoy!

Canterbury Wholefoods is great

It's all vegetarian, with some vegan options. We had the christmas dinner there (just before, uh, CHRISTMAS), but this time we had beanburgers and cake. Very nice, give it a try! It's not big, so you might be lucky to get in. You can reserve a table ...

Saw a GREAT house at the weekend

But boo, it was too small! I've decided this is my ideal location in Canterbury though, just off Old Dover Road, everything just looks nice. This was actually on between Old Dover Road and New Dover Road. This house is under budget, three bedrooms, n...

Had a great valentines day

Had a really good day yesterday, just lovely from start to end. Fully got away with not buying a valentines card (I really don't like cards) by coming up with roses, chocolates, and a stethoscope. Not a traditional valentines gift, but Clare had been...

Yesterday's house hunting

Back to square one then really. Had a house cancelled on us, then saw one in Wincheap that was a dump, had been divided up oddly for renting, needed too much putting back together and probably wouldn't have been worth it even had we done that. Then t...

Good day's house hunting

Saw the one I mentioned the other day, and it was not what I expected. The pictures don't do it justice, or I was a bit pessimistic when I was looking at the details, it's huge! And it has a ridiculous amount of character, it's all beams and half sta...

High Speed Rail Link services from Chartham to London

There will be... none. Chartham is not far from Canterbury, and the existing peak services will continue. It's not so important to us now, a village location would have its own benefits, but here's a round up. Currently there's a choice of three trai...

Back on the house train

As just mentioned, we've kickstarted our house hunt again, starting with three viewings yesterday. We've reduced our budget which I think is reasonable, basically knocking 20% off the top price of places we're looking at, because of house the market ...

ho ho ho very festive weekender

Started our weekend at the Christmas of Sorts night at the Whole World Cafe, it was GREAT, though the lady running the cafe was as unwelcoming as ever, perhaps it's her style... The band playing (more of a collective really) were great, I was expecti...

Had a great christmas dinner at Canterbury Wholefoods

Booked into Canterbury Wholefoods for lunch on Saturday and very glad we did, had a brilliant christmas dinner, nut roast, roast veges, potatoes, gravy, christmas pud and ice cream, all vegan, brilliant. I would phone up and book if you're heading th...

Evil day

Cold and horrible here, just done the shopping in the rain. Some snow this morning, too wet to settle though. FREEZING like I don't think I have ever known in Canterbury yesterday, proper arctic. Wondered round the shops a bit while Clare was having ...

Non political news

Ah, the weekend, seems like so long ago now. Chocka at work this week, I am shut away in isolation for two weeks to work on a new project. Good to be without distractions of people coming up to my desk, and actually good to be so busy, it's making th...

I might know of one ticket

I think I know someone who might not be able to go, stay tuned, or email me - fg@folkestonegerald.com - or maybe some other kind soul will read this and reply?Sandi Toksvig is also doing a date at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury, have you tried ...

Elizabeth and Raleigh - Late but Live

Cool, I agreed to go to this (our company are sponsoring it) before realising it was a Stewart Lee effort, this will be great! I hope we still agree tomorrow night, going out for dinner after it too, this is not normal behaviour for us on a school ni...

Splendid weekend of comedy, food, double dinners, and everything

Great weekend. As an intro though, specifically for the people from work who mentioned they had found this page recently - at no point did I drink too much and become annoying, I am a fine upstanding member of staff. Probably you can go back to work ...

Nice weekend

Had a good weekend, reasonably uneventful but just NICE! Intended to start off with a quiz at The Grand, but they called Clare on the day to say it was cancelled, for a private function. Good job she had called to reserve a table and left her number,...

How strange to compare this Wagamama review with today

I never have Yasai Katsu Curry any more, though I used to eat it all the time in London. Maybe this was my first visit to the Canterbury branch......

New top ten most popular restaurants in the area

As voted by you... click, rate, go on!Tinto Tapas (8.52/10)Savour Aroma (8.39/10)Curry Garden (8.03/10)Kalala (8.01/10)Chambers (8.01/10)The Prince of India (7.86/10)Wagamama (7.77/10)Bella Amalfi (7.45/10)Escondido (7.39/10)La Vue (7.28/10)...

Wagamama tipping policy

we do not include a service charge and when people leave a tip, 100% of the money goes to our staff - they are the ones who earn it, and they�re the ones who should receive it! our staff are also paid national minimum wage or more and we do not use t...

Simple Simon's: GONE!

Simple Simon's has reopened as "The Parrot". Still very similar, less independent beers on the bar and more Youngs, as that's who owns it now. Had a brace of pints there yesterday afternoon and it was very nice. They now sell bottles of beer at the b...

Where can I find listings for Club NME Canterbury?

If you know anyone involved, get them to get in touch with me. I only just found out it had moved from Studio 41 to the UCCA bar.myspace is no help myspace is awful... is there a facebook group or something I can get listings from? Facebook is awful ...

Roast potato and garlic bread

No, not "roast potato" and "garlic bread", but actually bread made with garlic and roast potatoes, can you imagine such a thing? I got some at the weekend from Karl's Good Food.It was nice, subtler than I was expecting, great bread though. The place ...

Canterbury, yesterday

Went to Canterbury yesterday, ate lunch, came home. That was about it really. Got some Thai food in The Hobgoblin. My jungle curry was pretty good, very hot too, but Clare didn't like her Pad Thai chicken.Yeah, not the most interesting thing for you ...

Check out Canterbury Whole Foods while you still can

The cafe above Canterbury Whole Foods is going to be under new management in a couple of weeks, so if you want to try the existing vegetarian + vegan cafe as it is now, you'd better hurry.We visited on Saturday for the first time in an age; on our la...

Peter Pan (Panto)

The Marlowe Theatre brings you a spectacular version of Peter Pan for Christmas 2009 in the magical venue it deserves, a state-of-the-art, big top theatre, situated in the heart of the city at Kingsmead Coach Park, Canterbury. More dates to come

Gong

Gong Formed: 1968 Active: '70s - 2000s Major Styles: Canterbury Scene Major Members: Didier Malherbe, Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Pierre Moerlen Representative Albums: "Pre-Modern Wireless: The...
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