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Turin Brakes play the Leas Cliff Hall in August, 08/08/08

Hevy is extremely excited to be presenting their biggest event so far this August, featuring two of their favourite upcoming bands supporting Turin Brakes at the Leas Cliff Hall.Leas Cliff Hall, FolkestoneFriday 8th August 2008 (08/08/08)Doors 7:00pm...

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Ooh, Flickr video

I didn't know about this. 90 second limit for your videos though, usually that's enough for funny little bits I've shot myself that I might want to share, like the nieces on their new bikes or Pauline's kitten, I will give this a try later.Update: An...

RE: Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

You can download The Colour of Magic at UKNOVA.org...I have and so far its rather good.

RE: Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Shame you didn't like N1LDA. I liked it - nice and simple, nice and upbeat and just what I needed after a long Easter Sunday eating and drinking with the in-laws. I thought it was well cast with beautiful cinematography too. I enjoyed it and am loo...

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 ...

RE: Easter events at The Hermitage

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Easter events at The Hermitage

The Hermitage has some easter events, including gourmet night on Thursday 20th:�19.95 per person inclusive ( wine is extra)Starters: Salmon Fum� Cocktail (Smoked Salmo...

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Folkestone Central and Folkestone West to get high speed trains (but not Sandling)

This info from this week's KM Extra free sheet, but has been made public by Southeastern Trains. I did wonder just how fast the high speed service could be if it stopped at all the little stations along the way.No mention of the services from Central...

Beastery

A Folkestone writer and artist have made a book on mythical and literary books, from the pegasus and the Minotaur to vampires and Frankenstein's Monster. A less than serious version this book is written by Paul Wimsett and illustrated by Anne Wimsett...

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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Folkestone bullet train trial

A micro-writeup and picture here in the Evening SubStandard on the high speed rail link. Yeah baby, we'll soon be only 63 minutes away from the stinking metropolis.yourshepway.co.uk also has the story here, The site of the Hitachi High Speed Rail dep...

Passengers to be weighed before getting on trains

From This Is London:Train operator Southeastern is linking the suspension of its carriages to a computer system that works out the weight of passengers getting on at each station. Other rail firms are installing laser beams across carriage doors to c...

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...

Happy actual new year

Ours was very good, all went according to plan.Back at work today, seemingly for a one off so got a regular day ticket, that's thirty seven pounds fifty I won't see again. Happy new price rises South Eastern Trains! Plus I needed two goes on the tube...

Belated weekend roundup

Weekend start sort of badly, and then sort of worse, and then actually got going really very well indeed. Train home hit some kind of delay, caused by some kind of delay on another train. That's as much detail as we've come to expect in the non expla...

Bonus travel update

Sevenoaks turned into some sort of no go area yesterday, no trains allowed to pass through it at all, this caused carnage on the network from teh afternoon onward. Some people were held up for hours, I was only half an hour late home, but still not t...

Good weekend

Rain seemed to play quite a part... Friday, raced out of work not quite in time to go to the Andrew Davies talk, part of the literary festival, but in good time to get some chips, and eat them in the rain on my way to The Grand Hotel where the talk ...

RE: There's a high speed rail link on the way

Pauly, I'm looking to relocate to Folkestone as I want to get out of London and commute to Office. Attracted to Folkestone because of all the investment + major reason being high speed link. However everyone I ask has a different opinion on whether...

Paul's

We have both eaten here several times before... We both enjoyed our first course ( duck terrine etc and mussels and prawns + parmesan twist etc), However, the main courses were both disappointing... The vegetables were virtuallty raw (especially the...
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Beer festival for the weekend!

Chambers hosts it's Easter Ales festival this weekend, running from Thursday to Monday. Twelve guest ales, plus four guest ciders, and I'm sure entertainment on each day.

Get in there early, before the beer runs out, but save some for me.

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Rail workers set date for strike

Workers at South Eastern Trains (SET) are to stage a one-day strike on Monday 5 December in protest at plans to reduce booking office staff, says the BBC, saw this on TV this morning too. This covers Folkestone and is all about not replacing ticket o...

Queen review here:

Queen review, as part of my general Easter review... Oh go on then, here's a camera phone picture from the crowd too:Queen BrixtonCheers for that one Andy....

Easter beaster

A lot to write about, had a huge great easter weekend and really managed to fit quite a lot in. Can I remember it all is the question though... Friday daytime is too long ago to be sure, but in the evening we did a little tour of Stoke Newington Chur...

Chambers Easter Ales Festival

Chambers in assocation with The Ship Inn present their Easter Ales festival this weekend! And I'm going to miss it, DOH! It's on from Thursday 24th - Monday 28th March, and the runners and riders are as follows... Your four regular ales are Adnams So...

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Queen

Not sure how much of a good idea it is, but I just got a couple of Queen tickets for when they play Brixton. It's on Easter Monday, and if you're quick and at all bothered you can get them here, oof not cheap, and there's some attempt at Ebay proofin...

Bad Curry

Went to Eastern Nights on Saturday evening, at the top of the Old High Street for a curry, as it had been recommended. Normally in Folkestone we'd go to The New Delhi, and it's always good, but OH NO, I had to speak up and insist we try something new...
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"Maxwell has more in common with Barley's nemesis, Dan"

Yeah, that's what everyone would like to think... On the subject of Shoreditch, there was a huge road closure this morning, near where the filming was yesterday, busses on diversion and everything... Around the end of Great Eastern Street I think, th...

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back from eastern europe bruvs...was proper cold and ting.so isnt it the case that those ipod thingies cant be manhandled like that? i heard that they can only be registered to one computer. however, just typing that aloud makes me think it's pure bo...

Chambers Beer Festival

The Chambers "Easter Ales" Beer Festival was a raging success, from the first day to the last. It seems to have taken everyone concerned slightly by surprise, but according to the landlord it will be "at least" an annual event, so here's to the next ...

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Chambers Beer Festival

Folkestone's finest boozatorium, The Chambers is holding an "Easter Ales Festival" over the Easter weekend (Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th April). They're planning to offer eight guest real ales, four guest ciders, and live jazz and blues every evening.T...

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