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Remember: Eurotunnel is not as good as you think it is going to be

Had a nice weekend in Lille, marred on the way home by a Eurotunnel delay. We were meant to be on the 10pm train home last night, and there was a twohour delay for some reason. No explanation, just an automated message when you are queued up in your ...

Madame Zingara in London

Hi There,Madame Zingara will be in London at Battersea Power Station with our Theatre of Dreams for a limited run.We've just completed a two-year sellout run of our home country South Africa and are looking forward to entertaining London.More info ca...

Sounds like crapland

My aunt went to this Lapland in the New Forest thing at the weekend and said it was bitterly disappointing, and then I saw it on BBC Breakfast this morning. Read Angry mum's lapland photo diary from www.dailyecho.co.uk and a report here from www.bitt...

Cure tickets

Seems it's nearly time for our annual pilgrimage, The Cure are playing the O2, it's an NME brats show, except it's called the Shockwaves big gig now. Seems they're playing Brixton the night before but it's at the awards ceremony. I've been before, la...
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David Devant top ten

Just browsing last.fm to see if anyone's mentioned the David Devant gig at the 100 Club (and they haven't), but I see this top ten of their tracks most listened, by users of last.fm. Who have installed the software, that monitors what you're listenin...
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Too old to rock

have my new starter at work, our industrial placement from Canterbury University for the year. He seems a nice guy, but in making conversation I asked him what he was listening to... Simply Red! Phil Collins! Robbie Williams! This guy is not even twe...

I must have something more interesting to write about than php?

Um, no, perhaps not.I got a new hard drive at last, after all the problems I had with the ibook and having to send it back, I didn't rush into getting another backup job, but I saw a bargain at Maplin Seagate 500GB FreeAgent, and it seems to be worki...

Radio 1 big weekend lineup

This is a free festival in Maidstone in a couple of weeks, you can register for tickets today, but please don't, it will decrease my chance of getting any:Saturday 10 May Main StageMadonna, The Fratellis, Usher, Scouting For Girls, Duffy, The Feeling...
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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...

You had to outdo us didn't you, rest of the country?

We were trumped, this earthquake centred in Lincolnshire was magnitude 5.3, which slays our earthquake (magnitude 4.3) that we had last year.Two reports from friends in the relative vicinity, just so I can feel I'm joining in:Yeah it was nuts - we bo...

Minas Tirith out of sweets

This is nearly as good as that advert where they make a car out of cake, some kids made this out of liquorice allsorts... It's from Lord of the Rings. Clare, is this your dream come true? Via www.popbitch.com...

Titanic themed christmas party at Brands Hatch

Strange sort of thing: 2007: Christmas aboard the ship of dreamsThe spectacular setting of Brands Hatch circuit, together with the proximity to London and the M25, makes this the perfect Christmas party venue. Trust our expert team to take the hassle...

Boom shake the room!

Well I suspect you've all been frantically refreshing wondering when I'd report from this morning's earthquake! Amazingly it was three and a half hours ago now, the power was off until just recently so there wasn't a lot I could do, no internets, and...

Wilkinsons moving into the old M&S building?

Councillor Dan Hassett says so... Wilkinsons is not the class of shop I'd pick for my dream high street, I must say, though it is handy for things.

"an important part of amusement park heritage" gone forever...

The Save Dreamland Campaign has worked tirelessly over the last few days to save the Runaway Coaster, being the only side friction figure eight coaster left in the UK and one of only two in the world. We believed it to be an important part of amuseme...

Making your votes up

Cheers Stu for pointing out Justin has blogged about the Eurovision thing on his myspace. Are people still doing myspace then? I must admit my facebook network hasn't really bloomed like it might have done, that's what only adding people you really k...

Folkestone property boom!

Well sort of. First off this bungalow that I pass every day on my walk from Westenhanger station to work has sold within two weeks of the board going up, that seems pretty speedy to me. I thought it might do, it's not all that to look at, but it's pr...

Only used a mac once

didn't like it much. I spent the whole time fixated by the fact I had to make a computer work with only 1 mouse button. Not had much call to use one since. My girlfriend uses one in the lab office at work & dreams of a half decent PC cos it keeps ove...

Harry Clarke colour plates

Not heard of this book before:HARRY CLARKE"Queens"Text by J M Synge. 8vo Mountrath: The Dolmen Press 1986FIRST EDITION. 9 colour plates & 1 text photo. Plain blue cloth with gilt lettering.15ppColour reproductions of 9 stained glass panels completed...

It's a deal

Been too busy with work, so missed if this was in the Herald or not, but according to ickent Mr DeHann and Mr Godden have done a deal for the seafront land! This is great! I think!ROGER De Haan and Jimmy Godden have done a deal for the seafront at Fo...

A Seaside Year launches in Folkestone

Folkestone is to see a new creative project arrive in the town this winter with the launch of A Seaside Year bringing twelve months of new performing arts events and activities to the town.Four key scheduled events for Winter, Spring, Summer and Autu...

Blood

I completely failed to give blood, that's three times I've been to the place where the blood drive is, and three times now I've got some detail or other wrong. First time, I'm sure they were open Tuesday and Wednesday, but I was wrong so I came back....

Couple of Orson tickets up on Ebay

Get in quick, though there may be more Orson tickets here. Found these while browsing for tickets for sold out gigs in Folkestone...In October of 2005 Hollywood's Orson dipped into their collective pockets and flew themselves to Manchester to play at...

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RE: Dolphins in Sandgate!

hi guess what I have seen 'Dave'the dolpin again, yesterday I actually swam out and it circled me and my friend it was about a metre away from me. It is a dream come true. Any chance for any extra information on either exactly what type of dolphin it...

RE: Day of new technology

Good news on the offers, especially so soon. If you get one you like then can you leave Barfly before the agreed 12 months?

Either way, you've got plenty of time to hold out for the job of your dreams.....

Last Episodes of Lost

Don't watch it - they all wake up in the shower together and it was all a bad dream.

Firefox extension of the day

Loving this, instant html validation in firefox, an extension that lets you know if the page you're on has errors / warnings, see:What the extension should look like in situ...This page has none! That's how it should be and that's what that little W3...

I dream of dreaming

This morning on the train into London, while I was sleeping I dreamt I was on THE VERY SAME TRAIN! I was with some other people though, not the wife, and I dreamt there was an announcement, we'd missed our slot for coming into London and now we'd hav...

RE: As one store closes...

Getting a Starbucks is not a sign of regeneration... They are everywhere. They're just expanding their presence. They just don't have one here yet. Simple as that.A sushi bar opening up in Folkestone - that would be a sign of regeneration... and of m...

I've got the power... oh no, I don't

Super power outage at work today, from about 7am this morning to lunchtime, has quite thrown the rhythm of my whole day.The Arctic Monkeys are getting quite a lot of press aren't they? I don't think we've seen the like since the Oasis v Blur days of ...