Folkestone literary festival kicks off

We've got tickets on the way for a few events including David Starkey and Terry Jones, get yours at www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk/:

We have carefully put together nine days of eclectic and exciting world-class authors and performers to entertain you. These sessions will thrill, entice and provoke debate.

Starting with the super-sized History Weekend (2nd-4th November) organised in association with Canterbury Christ Church University, join us for talks on a whole host of topics including Monarchy with David Starkey, Great Tales from English History with Robert Lacey and London in the 19th Century with Jerry White.

New this year we have two days focusing on the environment (9th & 10th November). Examine the state of the globe through specially curated exhibitions (Burning Ice by Max Eastley and David Buckland of Cape Farewell at The Metropole Galleries) and talks by Eugenie Harvey co-author of Change the World for a Fiver and Kate Evans creator of Funny Weather. Enjoy a variety of award winning films including Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and DV8 Physical Theatre’s The Cost of Living.

We are pleased to welcome David Frost speaking about the momentous drama behind the book Frost/Nixon, Roy Hattersley on life between the wars in Borrowed Time plus Nicholas Parsons’ own inimitable performance, How pleasant to Know Mr Lear. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Bull and Gate BLOODBATH!

Well nearly, luckily your correspondent stepped in...

Things nearly turned NASTY at last night's Mark Hibbett gig at the Bull and Gate...

The large crowd of student friends of the support band were getting restless, and it was turning into a Bush vs Gore / Sharks vs Jets stylee stand-off and your dutiful editor had to PHYSICALLY RESTRAIN a Hibbett fan who was on his way out to the car to fetch AN GUN! Old favourites like Born With The Century, Billy Jones Is Dead and [Family Wedding 2021 - while bringing a tear to this hardened cynic's eye - weren't cutting it with the new bloods. In a FLASH of inspiration Mark finished on a fabulous cover of Boom Shake The Room and by the end complete strangers were dancing and hugging...

As to the latter part of the evening, your correspondent has fuzzy recollections of Gene Simmons and the Fighting Cocks, but that's too much detail already...

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Windebank

Re: Windebank

My grandmother was Irene Victoria Windebank, born 1897 in Hambledon. Thus far I have gone back to Edward Windebank born 1820 Widley Hants. Can you offer me any links to living relatives or going further back. obviously I can bring her tree up to the present time.
Sandra Gore

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