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at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:this saturday and sunday cathy lomax and alex michon present l'estranger:where paranoid plup fiction drives out fact...a dishevelled young stranger arrives at a coastal town. his clothes are strange and his f...

Folkestone Fringe update, actually in time for the mailout this week!

at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:on wednesday 20th and thursday 21st aether flyer play the leas liftaether flyer are still alive thanks to a scientific experiment gone bizarrely wrong, and exactly eighty years on, with an exhibit of their mu...

This weekend's Folkestone Fringe events

friday night at the folkestone fringe, invites you to two previews:at the cube gallery, tontine street:new work by andy tuohypreview starts at 6 - 8.30 pmall welcome to see a continuation of some of the poster modern work seen earlier in the yearat g...

Has anyone seen Clare?

And I assumed she just headed off to Barcelona as planned! Someone's got her! Can you read that phone number?I'm posting a lot more this weekend. Can you tell I am bored? I've even done some cleaning and some DIY, and for TWO walks around town....

Sounds intriguing, something to do this weekend

From the Folkestone Fringe website:DIY fringe:if you haven't already had a peek, go up to the bayle and have a look at window, no 13 the bayle.I've got to go and have a look at that haven't I? I hope it's not a trick. The Bayle is a street in the ol...

Rated 5.78/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Just too late for the weekly mailout (again) Folkestone Fringe

From Folkestone Fringe:at georges house gallery:the king and I, private view friday1st august, 7pm30 years after his death, elvis presley still has a firm hold on the collective imagination and this still continues to grow as younger people discover ...

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Delia Smith makes a kebab:Part of a series of faked up vids, from Don't Watch That, Watch This. Not seen them before, though I do remember this sweary DIY video from somewhere....

Guitar Hero on the Commodore 64

Via www.engadget.com.There's a PC / Mac game you can download for free, where you hold your keyboard like a guitar, Frets On Fire......

Should everything be a black box though? And WHY can't you fix my IPAQ?

It's just the battery I think, it won't keep a charge now...OK not everyone is building a clock out of voltmeters but the people who are trying to do this sort of thing have got to feel happy about it, I know I would if I could get more stuff for fre...

DIY SOS

Right, we have this wardrobe from Habitat, and I'm quite pleased with it, but one of the doors is bowing slightly. When the door's shut, it's slightly convexed, so the magnetic catch at the top of the door isn't always catching. The door is adjustab...

Welcome to Miami!

Or, rather, from Miami, or even (by the time I write this up) hello from England, Miami sends its regards. Just BACK from a trip to the US of States to visit Clare's bro and sister-in-law in the pan-handle bit of the Americas. Tiring flight over to M...

Ah Dover was thrown in as a bit of a gamble

A High Risk says the Where Best To Invest website:3000 new jobs could be created by a �100 million expansion of the White Cliffs Business Park, but it all rests on whether a certain DIY store decides to relocate. Even without the investment, house pr...

BBC fights Blue Peter badge sales

Badgetastic, there are still tonnes of Blue Peter Badges on sale though, going for crazy prices - is this the ebay guerillas spoiling the auctions? Nice work!Sadly finished Nathan Barley last night, it's a brilliant series, and should be compulsory v...

No more videos for a while

Ace weekend, shame the weather was so poor, as it was again this morning. The family came, and it was very nice, though mostly I made them stay in the flat and work. We did go out for a mighty dinner at The Jackdaw, none of the adults managed to clea...

The Wireless Music Player: Do-it-yourself remotely managed music player

Loving this DIY wifi music player, one day I'll be ready for my first real hardware hack.

Now that's just mean

In the same weekend that the whole nation gets weepy about one (1) dead whale, there's more news about brazillions of grey squirrels being culled.Great weekend of comedy and sort of DIY. Went to the Lanterns comedy night Saturday, and quite literally...

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I Am The Law!

I know I'm not the first to pick up on this, but I read last night's Evening Standard this morning (no, not The Metro, really last night's Standard, I found it on the train) and there was a piece about new powers for the police. It's being proposed (...

Bank holiday WEEKENDER!

Stop panicking everyone, I'm back, reporting on updates of the weekend... Quite literally THREE PEOPLE said on the phone that they thought something was up / I'd gone away somewhere because the site wasn't updated over the weekend. Sorry! How will yo...

Flooding in Portchester

No-one told me about this! Fareham shopping centre closed, oh dear.Lazyish day today, been shopping to get ingredients for tomorrow's house barbecue. We've not met all the people who live in the building, but we're all having a barbie together. Our j...

Amazon bargains of the week

Not so sure about posting this up here, as last time it resulted in a lot of hits for "epilator spare parts", but here we go, some bargains from Amazon... First ElectronicsSanyo Xacti Digital Video Camera (3.2Mp, 5.8x Optical) Price: �229.99 Saving: ...

Curry!

I done some good cooking yesterday, a curry from all fresh spices and things, it's: the curry recipe I linked to here a while ago and it was really really good. We used various mixed veg, potato, peas, mushrooms and things. ACE! We doubled up, thinki...

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...

Podcasting's not dead

www.makezine.com have a piece on making yourself a podcasting appliance, ie a little radio type device just for listening to all these crap shows you can't help downloading.They're giving a big up to a mate of mine, saying "Kosso from www.Blugg.com h...

Nick Knowles (DIY SOS)

Yesterday. The annoying git from DIY SOS, jeans and a lot of stubble.

DIY IPOD battery pack

nice idea here from drewperry.co.uk... a few more IPOD hacks on that site too, like how to beat the sound limiter, and how fiddle with the battery charge meter....

Flattery will get you...

... on the front page! How could I not run this?Seeing as you are now officially the most influential person in the British Music Scene, what with the Darkness being at No1 in the album charts still and CTC entering the charts near to the top too (al...

Meme me me me

Toaster porn, and Angle Grinder Man... I like that site, and I like the subversiveness, but generally I think I am on the side of the speed camera and the clamp. Also I am liking the idea of heat sensitive paint, though maybe it's a mistake, like the...

UK Indie gig

MJ Hibbett and more, a bit of a DIY effort from the uk-indie mailing list. At Oxford Point