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Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

Canterbury, but not house hunting

Not a bad weekend. Started on a bum note, with a death, my sister's ma-in-law passed away unexpectedly on Friday, so thoughts with all the families involved obviously. Saturday we stayed local, didn't go to Canterbury as Clare was having lunch with h...

Big shout out to Chambers

Thanks for the kind words at the quiz yesterday, which was great. Free drinks and sweets presents for everybody, you can't argue with that.The presents were a pretty funky laser pointer / torch combo for everyone, a santa hat with flashing lights, an...

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Festive Fun

Welcome back after the christmas break, hope you had a good one. We did, felt a bit quiet though, no big late nights or anything. Kind of handy really, as I'm back in work today, I volunteered to be in on these (hopefully) quiet days between christma...

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Good drinking weekend

We checked out the annual Easter Ales Festival at Chambers on Thursday and Friday nights, and have had a couple of nights back at the flat playing pool and listening to my new Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs collection, and had a day in Canterbury (inclu...

Rabbits and finches

Walk home from work today wasn't so dark, not pitch black anyway, not sure if that's the position of the moon or something, or that it's really getting lighter. We went to the office at the weekend, so I could show Clare where it was, and we saw a ra...

Monday morning roundup

I'd heard of this before, but didn't know the reason why some councils are refusing to recycle shredded paper, that's pretty poor.Commercial director John Collis said: "The small pieces of paper tend to get trapped in the conveyor belts and cause a f...

Not such a good start to the week

Got the final three episodes of Lost series two ready to watch and I find my little computer has packed in! Hope it's just that the battery is very dead, though I did leave it in a cupboard that might have got quite hot over the week... If anything s...

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And two eyes made out of, er, sprouts

Us in the snow today in the in-laws garden, Clare took the picture that's why she's missing... We really did have an amazing amount of snow here in Folkestone, more than I've seen in years. Four or five inches fell overnight, on top of whatever fell ...

My last Friday, Saturday and Sunday as a single man

I feel I have messed up a bit. My last weekend as a single man was spent partly shopping and mostly sat at home watching DVDs, how sad. Still, it was good. Friday we stayed in for some reason, we were planning to do one or other of our last remaining...

Exhausted

The family have gone now, we stayed up late last night and then did a big walk around Folkestone today, so I am KNACKERED and will be off to bed soon... I left the tickets for the Funeral For A Friend gig at work, so we knew we couldn't go to that, a...

Funeral for a QUIZ

I seem to have spoken about nothing but maps for ages, but RA, I have news; this weekend we are not going to the Chambers Quiz we're off to see Funeral for a Friend and Bullet for my Valentine at the Leas Cliff Hall... I'm ironing my best hoodie espe...

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Tip top weekend

Where did that weekend go then? It felt shorter than a regular two day weekend, though we surely packed more in... I started off with a rare evening out in London with some chums, some drinks on The Tattershall Castle and then on to a regular dry lan...

Let it snow let it snow let it snow

GREAT weekend, which I will come back to as it's time to do some work. Bit cold, but very nice to see Clare's bro who was visiting from the Americas. He and his wife and their little dog live and work in Miami, and don't get to visit that often so we...

Christmas roundup

Had a GREAT Christmas break in Folkestone, quite a lot of sitting in and relaxing, playing dominoes, watching DVDs (lots of series one, why did Doyle leave? He's WHAT???) and remarkably not eating out once. Normally a trip there means restaurants fo...

Manic Tuesday

Had a long weekend in Folkestone, but I have returned to chaos... www.popex.com, www.record-producers.com, www.channelfly.com and other work sites all down... not big issues to fix, but annoying... one of them the power lead had fallen out the back....

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Chambers Quiz

What was that all about then? There was no quiz at Chambers in December, as they're saving it up for Christmas Day... I guess this means no quiz in January either, when on earth are we meant to defend our title?Advertising of events has been a bit on...

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Weekend of travels

A great weekend in Folkestone though we seem to have been travelling around Kent for most of it. Raced down to go to Chambers Friday night, had a couple of pints in there and then shockingly left before closing, a bit tired... Saturday overslept unti...

Weekend update

About time for a weekend update, all the things I didn't have time to write yesterday, if I can remember it all.I got in the bragging about the quiz, but just to remind you we were the "Uptown Architects", as we couldn't think of a funny name, and th...

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Did someone mention a quiz?

Yes, we won the Chambers Quiz, the "Uptown Architects" came through. We were assuming they'd lost our paper when they ran through all the sheets without mentioning us, then were shocked and astounded to find ourselves joint first. A quick tiebreaker ...

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I'm glad it's two weeks until the Chambers quiz

TTTTWWWWEEEENNNNTTTYYY JJJOOOHHHNNN oh I'm sorry, I'm typing that at the wrong speed; Twenty John Peel based team name puns would be too much.

RIP fella.

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Splish Splash!

Boozetastic weekender in Folkestone, starting off with a shock drink in London! I rarely go out in the week any more, but popped in The Mynt Rooms for one with work chums, nice place, flash but comfortable, no ales but one pool table. Then, ONWARD, t...

Ah man, I missed Kirstie...

Location, Location, Location were in Stokey recently according to the Daily Mirror...Very boozy weekend, in Folkestone, blee... didn't shame ourselves in the Chambers quiz, but didn't come away with any silverware either.Too drink sodden to sort out ...

Chambers Quiz

There's no Chambers quiz for the next two months, it's back in October... Can't wait? Us either, here's a countdown timer... Unless of course you're viewing this in October, you missed it!...

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Bonus day!

Hmm, not a bonus earning type of day, but rather an extra day to the weekend... worked out that if we stay over in Folkestone on Sunday night too, I can still get up at normal time in the morning, use my return train ticket without paying any excess,...

Cider-Tastic

MJ Hibbett is playing way out West this week - July 25th he will be playing at Chambers, in Taunton.Chambers is "opposite the Virgin and below the Orange shop in Taunton town centre. The Orange shop sells phones, it is not a greengrocers", thanks to ...