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Folkestone Harbour Festival 2008

This years Folkestone Harbour Festival 2008 will take place on July 19 2008. We have a full day program lined up starting at 10am in the morning right through till 9pm when we close with a spectacular firework display in the Harbour. Events include...
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KML

Created some kml files from my pub / restaurant data on Folkestone Gerald, part of my plan to clean up my maps and things, kml is a standard that's been adopted by google for google earth and maps and things, and is possibly better suited than my exi...

House hunt

Two houses today in Canterbury, different parts of town, but with things in common. For starters, both too expensive really at 250k each. If the market really is tumbling we might be able to make a cheeky offer on just about anything we see now thoug...

Kent for free sold out

Anyone feeling hard done by working this magically appearing non day and not getting paid any extra for it feeling hard done by? I'm not, they pointed out on BBC Breakfast today that even though we have this extra day, we have one less working day th...

Kent's big day out

15,000 FREE TICKETS AVAILABLEMore than 15,000 free tickets to top visitor attractions across the county are available for Kent's Big Day Out.Among those taking part are:Godinton House & Gardens, The Canterbury Tales, Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, P...

Lost: bit annoying

Watched the new episode, hope you enjoy it if you watch it tonight. I'm convinced the story's still being made up as it goes along, and that there won't be any actual answers by the end of the show. Some new ideas introduced, I'll probably stick with...

Beer festival on today in Dover

Mmmm, beer festival, at the town hall, starts today but is also on tomorrow, hope there's some beer left.The Easter Ales Festival is back in Chambers in a few weeks too, over the, uh, Easter weekend. See you there....

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Beer and rugby

Got a good weekend lined up I think, not going to Canterbury this week, though I will be in a Canterbury frame of mind as I'm seeing a mortgage advisor Saturday morning to see what we can do. Then, it's Dover beer festival, either going there at lunc...
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Two completely different properties this week

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id...
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fruit veg

Please check out the Little veg shop in folkestone for all your wholesale and retail needs, we're on Dover Road but for more info see our site www.thelittlevegshop.co.uk

Been quiet for a few days

No I've not been out on the larry-large every day over christmas, been a bit under the weather actually, though that's not what's kept me off the computer. When I'm not at work and Clare's home too I never get to sit in front of the computer, she's p...
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I can't find "The Last Golden Arrow"

Can you tell me the link where you saw this?UPDATE:NEW! Saturday 19th January 2008 - 'THE GOLDEN ARROW' to Folkestone and CanterburyDeparting from: Coventry (06.40/23.30) Leamington Spa (07.20/23.10) Banbury (07.45/22.50) Bicester North (08.05/22.35...
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Kent TV vs Your Kent TV

Now some confusion has been cleared up for me, there are two of these www.youtube.com copyist sites around at the moment, both just launched at the same time, www.kenttv.com launched by the council and run in some way by Bob Geldof, and also www.your...

Westmount burns

BBC has details of this derelict building on Folkestone Road burning. No news yet as to whether it was arson or not, but it's the second major fire in Dover his week, after St Martin's church also burned....

Folkestone Camera Club

If this site had a clubs and societies section, stuff like this would definitely be in it:Monday 14th May saw Mr John Butler ARPS DPAGB APAGB, returning to judge our 6th and final print competition of the season. With his usual expertise, and hints a...

Canterbury weekender

Had such a great weekend, it's taken me days to recover, and I've not fully gathered my thoughts. I'm in danger of forgetting everything though, so It's time to blat out a mini review.Friday started how all our Fridays used to start, with a trip to C...

Nurse, my sides!

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE !!11!!1!FOLKESTONE EARTHQUAKE APPEALA major hurricane (Hurricane Shazza) and an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Folkestone & Dover in the early hours of Saturday. Its epicentre was in Folkestone. Victims...

Delivery excitement

The wife just reminded me that we have our new furniture arriving today, that's exciting! I say furniture, it's our sideboard for the TV to go on.Got a good weekend planned too, back to Blakes, and watching the rugby in Dover before that.More TV rela...

Worth a trip to Dover for

Went to Blakes yesterday, what an amazing place! Really looking forward to going back next week to eat there, just drank very fine beer this time.There's not much on their website, but if you look here looks like there's meant to be more to it......

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Some shopping

Just went to Bluewater to try and get a telly for the kitchen (but no-one wanted to swap, hoho) and a new coat for Clare. BUT, the telly we had seen online didn't look nearly as good in the flesh, and all the others that did were more than we were th...

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I thought things looked funny from the train last night

Looking out of my window I could see lots of lorries queued up in the dark, I thought it was the entrance to the tunnel but wondered why I'd not noticed it before... Seems the M20 was closed last night, Operation Stack came into effect:Motorists were...

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...

Gig guide from this week in 1981!

so it wasn't all big name indie bands playing the Metronome every night as I've been led to believe... here's a fascinating republication of gig listings from 1981, from the good people at www.kentgigs.com. Don't forget my Folkestone gig guide though...

The Mayfly,

do you have live bands on fridays or saturday if so we could put you onto a very good local band they play at the park inn, happy frenchman, the castle, the firs club, all over Deal, Dover, Ashford, and Margate. They ahve recorded a CD which you can ...

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History in my day

Another bright and breezy morning, just cool enough to stop me walking down town in just a t-shirt, but warm enough not to stop me walking down town at all. I headed the usual route past the courts and the DSS (all the nice scenic points), to what I�...

RE: Feltonfleet School

All this if for a new book on the history of Westbrook House School from 1957 - 2005. It will of necessity include its amalgamations with Riverdale School/ Dover College Junior School and St Mary's Convent. The website is a talking shop where interes...

Folkestone on popbitch

Not real popbitch (ie the popbitch newsletter), just something someone just posted on the board. I repeat it here for your delectation and delight:Meanwhile, on the last train out of Charing Cross on Saturday night...Your actual Cheryl Baker out of B...

Pal Joey

Old Westbrookians' SocietyCalling all former pupils of Westbrook House Prepatatory School, Dover College Junior School (Westbrook House) and St Mary's Westbrook? If so, visit our website - www.oldwestbrookians.cjb.net - and leave us a message....
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Busy bee

Bit busy with things to update this week, sorry all. Had a lovely weekend, including a rare Friday night out to Harveys and Skuba, and then a fabulous spontaneous huge night out on Saturday too. Sunday went to Samphire Hoe and took a walk along Dover...

RE: clarke family

Hi!My main reason for being here is that I was doing one of my casual nostalia searches for the 'old' family and family business when an interesting result on Elliott came up. What caught my attention was the first name of Elliott concerned as it wa...