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Simple Simon's: GONE!

Simple Simon's has reopened as "The Parrot". Still very similar, less independent beers on the bar and more Youngs, as that's who owns it now. Had a brace of pints there yesterday afternoon and it was very nice. They now sell bottles of beer at the b...
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Boo, pissed off

Just had our viewing of the house we were going to see tomorrow cancelled, the vendors have received a full asking price offer yesterday. We hadn't seen this house yet (apart from online), it was right on the street with no real garden to speak of, a...

GOOD ONE!!! LOL!!11!

Open Mic night at the Whole World cafe this Friday

And every two weeks after that, message from Tony KingHi Everyone!! I am now running the Open Mic Night at the Whole World Cafe, the Old High St, Folkestone. This is a lovely venue which specialises in Ethical, Homemade Wholefood. The surroundings ar...

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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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The Smiths and The Stone Roses, live in Folkestone!

Andy Rourke (of the Smiths) joined Ian Brown (of the Stone Roses live on stage at the Leas Cliff Hall last night by all accounts (I think I first read this on kentnews.co.uk, but it's gone now). Also, someone got chucked out. Was it you?...

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Shark attack in Folkestone!

details here in the Sun. Doesn't the harbour and the Burstin look quite nice in that picture?

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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...

Kings of quiz

Every week we struggle away at the friendly fun quiz at The Ship Inn in Sandgate, and we hardly ever come away with the top grand prize of a bottle of wine. This week, for a change we tried the Sunday quiz at Saltwood Castle (Saltwood Castle Hotel no...
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Arson in Folkestone!

This from www.ickent.co.uk:Arsonists hit another town firmReport by Sarah ShaffiARSONISTS have struck again in a string of attacks on businesses in Folkestone's town centre.The latest attack occurred at the rear of La Vue in West Terrace on February ...

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Transport updates

Journey times have been much better since Monday. If I race out of the door here at six, I get a train at Cannon Street that gets me home without changing for eight fifteen. Bit boring travelling on my own, but I'm plodding on with these book, and re...

RE: An email, from Dave the Dolphin:

Appalling bad taste leave the poor animal alone! Human interaction with a wild animal will probably lead to it's death. Hope you can live with yourself!

Leave Dave the dolphin alone!

The Folkestone Dolphin is in The Sun today:JET skiers and kayakers will be prosecuted if they harass a dolphin that has taken up residence in the English Channel.The dolphin who has been nicknamed "Dave" has made the sea off Folkestone, Kent, his hom...

See the Princess Nikki / Folkestone footage here

Nice one!...

RE: Fizzing like a bottle of pop...

Okay, wanna buy to rent? Try my place for sale at �142,500 in best road in Folkestone!

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...

Weird traininess thing going on

Got on the train at stupid o'clock as usual this morning to hear an announcement apologising for the late running of the service. Assumed the announcement was the mistake, but NO! Our train had been replaced by a late running earlier number that was ...

RE: Impressions of Tontine Street, a first visit to a new bar

I visited this 'hidden jewel'. Why is it so quiet? The food was excellent, service great and the staff welcoming and friendly. Maybe Folkestone or Tontine St is not ready for this yet. Use it or lose it i say. What an excellent venue for the World...
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Trains and IPODs

Our train ground to a halt this morning at Orpington, and had to be rebooted. That's the most interesting non-TV thing to have happened so far this week. I am still aching a bit from Sunday's gardening. Looking forward to a restful weekend... OH NO!J...

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...

Haha, we'll soon make a mess of the new one!

No, we'll try and keep it nice. It won't be here for 8 weeks, hope you can visit before then?

RE: Got one!

Dang, forgot to include my username.

RE: Got one!

We might come and visit you now you've got a nice new sofa :o) I was hoping you were going to keep the old one as our one looked a tiny bit better than that. Now your new one just shames it.

RE: Got one!

Stone me - that's a nice big sofa - now you can Advertise Things! you see, I reckon it's big enough to be handy as proper banner advertisement sofa for lifestyle apartment blocks - you know the type - you see the big adverts outside new luxury apartm...

Got one!

One trip to Lakeside later, and we have a new sofa, a sort of L-shape, and not in leather. It's a shade darker than that one in the picture, and it'll be here in about eight weeks. SMART!Dinner tonight at Escondido, and a few drinks in Sandgate too I...

Second day with no coat

And it's raining again, I didn't plan this very well at all... still it's warmer, so unless it's actually hoofing it down when I leave the house, the big coat stays in the cupboard.Got home yesterday to two surprises, firstly a big old crate in the h...

RE: Guardian Unlimited | Weekend | Let's move to ... Folkestone, Kent

yay! Come on Folkestone! The article in the paper copy of the paper had a great picture of Folkestone from the surrounding hills and was a double page spread of the 'Space' mag.

The hotel could be the Grand Hotel - lovely!

A shooting in Folkestone!

As blogged here, look out...

Primal Scream definitely coming to Folkestone

They really are doing a one of show at the Leas Cliff Hall for some reason, nice one!

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Here's that Creative Players news in full

The Creative Players is an amateur dramatics group forming as part of the creative renaissance of Folkestone. At the moment we need help, idea's and feedback from like-minded souls who believe as we do that Folkestone can sustain, indeed heartily sup...

Leas Cliff Hall

Carl Barat of The Libertines, and his new band, they're very good... Plus Hot Club de Paris and Mando Diao. Hey, we went to this one!...

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