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December newsletter from the George in Rye

Sounds great!We're looking forward to welcoming many of you to The George in Rye at Christmas time. If you're not staying but would like to come to Rye over the festive season, do pop in for a drink. Rye is great for last-minute Christmas shopping - ...

Bonekickers

Did you see Bonekickers on TV last night? I will watch some crap, but even I had to turn it off, it was so bad! I am still tempted to catch up on what I turned off on iplayer later, just to reassure myself that it was just about the worst thing ever....

Psst, wanna buy a Tracey Emin?

A GREAT day around Folkestone today, it was the start of the Triennial and there was tonnes to see. Number one activity was hunting down the Tracey Emin's before they got stolen. She'd cast several bronze sculptures of abandoned baby clothes that she...
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New not-comedy on BBC4

Looking forward to this, the first in a new series "The curse of comedy", it'll be a drama mockumentary type thing about the relationship between Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Starring Jason Isaacs (The State Within) as Harry H Corbett and Ph...

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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An aggressive youth in a tracksuit, should not be hard to find...

Reprinting from Kent news, hopefully they'll get a result, are there not CCTV cameras all over the Leas?POLICE are appealing for help identifying a group of youths who assaulted and hurled abuse at a street cleaner.The 62-year-old broke his arm when ...

Folkestone celeb spotting

Ooh yeah, we were in Escondido last Sunday as I mentioned, and TV's Dominic Littlewood was in there too, just a table for one, by the window. This says to me he was in town working, filming something, rather than living or visiting. So, look out for ...

How I am the best at IPOD / genres / tagging / etc...

A valued chum just posed these questions by email, and it fired me off in a huge response, so I thought I'd whack it up here too...1. When you have a CD what are you using to rip the CD, what bitrate and what codec are you using?2. what is the minimu...

GOOD interview

Spent a few hours with a really cool company earlier, hope they are thinking the same kind of salary I'm thinking. There was a range advertised with the job, I hope they agree with me that I'm at the top of that range. Oh, and that they are intereste...

Damp and other delights

This spell of cold weather has made the whole house SWEAT! I've hd to put our central heating on at last, yay it still works, but uh-oh, this has led to condensation everywhere. Hopefully this will sort itself out when the temperature levels off a bi...

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone!

No not a headline from the Herald, but a new book by Martin Easdown and Linda Sage, sounds great! I think it's new anyway, and not yet actually published...Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone takes the reader on a sinister journey thro...

Maggot 2 Win!!!

What a brilliant idea the new celeb big brother is - they put 11 people in the house, only one of them is a real celebrity, and we have to guess who it is! My money is on The Maggot. Other contenders are George Galloway, Jodie Marsh, Michael Barrymo...

Will Mellor

He was also wearing a flashing light santa hat. I think he was doing some dodgy dealings but it would be wrong for me to elaborate on that.

Monterey

Just setting up a place holder here where I will post the next part of my holiday honeymoon writeup... on leaving San Francisco we went to Monterey, before heading to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.First we had to get out of San Francisco, which meant...

My gigography

Getting there with my gigography now, a list of every gig I've been to, from 1987 up to last year. It's a natural progression from my Best Gigs Ever post. Well that's the theory, but there's A LOT missing. I have chucked in details from the big bag o...

How To Steal Wi-Fi - And how to keep the neighbors from stealing yours. By Paul Boutin

We found the fabbest Indian in SF, loads of veggie options, I thought I had died and gone to heaven, we even got a free bottle of wine by reading one of the food guides in our hotel and stealing the advert. So where else do you fancy then? (for you...

I want your mushrooms. Where are they?

Folkestone in the Guardian today, in a story about how magic mushrooms have come back into the mainstream and the highstreet, and then suddenly there's a superbad crackdown again:One retailer caught in the police crackdown was Andy Burgess, who runs ...

Another day, another mouse

Found another mouse in our kitchen, alive again. This one looked a lot healthier, lessly wobbly and confused, but he still didn't make any effort to run away. Just look at this cute little feller. I put him out in the street and he scurried away, pro...

Timothy's Wine Bar

Hi everyone.I have just visited an interesting little place in folkestone called Timothy's wine bar.I have to say it was an experience i will never forget. As soon as i opened the door,the staff welcomed me and took personal time to get to know me, w...

"neurocops"

'We have a big report coming out soon on pharmacotherapy. The focus is on how the new breed of neuro-drugs are helping to shift the old rhetoric of the "war on drugs" away from drug users as "the enemy" to being "sick people" who need treatment. It w...

RE: The Cure review

right on! pauly obviously doesn't know anything about the cure or cure fans... seriously pauly, do a LITTLE research before you post a "review"... what a joke. it's people like you who did NOT deserve to be at the barfly. i had several friends out...

Waffle waffle waffle

Got through to my solicitor after the third call (left messages twice asking to be called back, wasn't called back), apparently they only got a letter from the vendors solicitors a few days ago and will be dealing with this "over the next week or so"...

RE: The New 73

I recently moved to West Ealing from Nottingham. Nottingham's Transport had a crack with the Bendy Busses too. I didn't like them then and i don't like them now. They ran on the 58 route. The reason they never apeared on other routes was because they...

MJ Hibbett Tour

MJ Hibbett & The Validators are embarking on a national tour this Autumn to celebrate the huge critical success of their new album "This Is Not A Library".The album was released in July and received uniformly glowing reviews. Rolling Stone said "Hil...

Still no hot water

Did another 5k on the bike this morning, worked up a sweat so that the prospect of a cold shower was quite appealing.Off to Winchester tonight for dinner as a friend (Jules) is back from Denmark for the week.Funeral yesterday was very sad, duh, it's ...

Still alive

AND we've tracked down the landlord and someone's coming to look at the boiler today, while me and Clare are off to The Darkness tonight at Virgin Megastore, NICE! Possibly a free JD bar, fingers crossed.Fiddling with the Liverpool Barfly listings em...

Reviews

Today is popex admin day, dealing with the fallout of all the emails, and also writing reviews

The Cheeky Girls headline Glastonbury 2003

They might as well be announced, as it says here that there will be no Glastonbury next year : (The festival (THE Festival) has been refused it's license, but will be appealing....

Paradise City - Yorkshire

Tune into "Lamacq Live" tonight at 8, where our Steve will be exclusively revealing that Guns 'n Roses will playing at Leeds Festival this August Bank Holiday.Damn, that went a bit pear shaped innit? I have been playing some sort of logic puzzle all ...