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Our actual first day in Key West

I realise that my previous post about our first day in Key West a) didn't contain any info, b) had things from our second day on the map, and c) has slipped down the page and no-one will read it. So here at last is the first part of our journey. Clar...

House hunt

Two houses today in Canterbury, different parts of town, but with things in common. For starters, both too expensive really at 250k each. If the market really is tumbling we might be able to make a cheeky offer on just about anything we see now thoug...

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 ...

Second house-hunting trip around Canterbury

Saw five houses today in Canterbury, have a map with details of the things we saw. Clare's out tonight with Jenny, so it's a prime opportunity for me to do some fiddling about with maps and things, so sorry if it breaks. Not that you'll be on the com...

Particularly fulsome weekend, with curries.

Splendid weekend, a bit different this time, starting off with a half day on Friday. I headed to Winchester to meet up with some friends, and really needed the extra time to make the most of the night. Clare stayed home watching Children in Need afte...

Weekend train fun

Planning a little trip to Winchester tomorrow evening, to catch up with old friends and have a curry and a few drinks. Staying over, so no worries about trying to get back here, and then meeting Clare in London the next morning for shopping and thing...

Reporting from the Lake District (being the fourth part of my two week holiday write up)

More photos up now, but here's a bit of video we did.We were originally going to go for a proper cottage for our stay in the Lake District, but I'm so glad we settled on the apartment in Keswick we originally went for. It was nice, all the mod cons, ...

It's got nice again here

Don't know how long it can last though.

I like Marcus Brigstocke too, I liked his comedy but you're right he does seem to have been gradually getting more mainstream. Not sure about that show he did where he was Anne Robinson's sidekick.

Canterbury weekender

Had such a great weekend, it's taken me days to recover, and I've not fully gathered my thoughts. I'm in danger of forgetting everything though, so It's time to blat out a mini review.Friday started how all our Fridays used to start, with a trip to C...

Boohoo, I preferred their earlier stuff

This is rubbish:Oh, boohoo, i preferred the earlier stuff, now everyone's got an IPOD, it's not fair! What sort of massive 'lord is he anyway if he has to keep taking his computer into the "genius" bar to get it fixed? Just bang it on the desk until...

Blood on the tracks

Watched "The Roadkill Chef" last night, billed by BBC Three as "Eccentric roadkill connoisseur Fergus Drennan tries to change the eating habits of the people in the town of Sandwich in Kent by throwing the community a roadkill feast". Sandwich is rea...

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 ...

Number one result for "Habitat Radius"

Was just trying to find the furniture we bought at the weekend, and all the top results are me, how strange. It's down to Habitat's website being quite bad, the whole flash interface makes it hard to index, so my pages are coming up top. ANYWAY, here...

History in my day

Another bright and breezy morning, just cool enough to stop me walking down town in just a t-shirt, but warm enough not to stop me walking down town at all. I headed the usual route past the courts and the DSS (all the nice scenic points), to what I�...

Roundup

Interview yesterday was good, but it's a small company and I'm still after more money than they can afford. It wis great to work on interesting projects, but I'm still holding out for a higher wage too right now, we have a mortgage and want a new hou...

Baby baby, where did our weekend go?

Aciton packed weekend, yet again quite literally TWO daytime trips out of the house that were not just to the shop or the pub, what is going on? We had such a full weekend that I had just about no time for larking about on the computer or even sittin...

Another action packed weekender

The new computer est arriv�! Had no time to play with it yet as it's been such a busy weekend, and so had no time to get pictures off the camera yet, so my weekend diarisation and explanation is without illustration so far, sorry (see pictures by my ...

Nostaliga Bar closes, reopens as Euphoria

Went to Euphoria on Saturday afternoong, which is where The Nostalgia Bar was, which is where The Front was before that. Now the '50s theme has been dropped, and it's just a nice bar again, nice to sit outside anyway, the high energy happy hardcore y...

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Last night's TV

SO, no time to watch LOST at all last night! River Cottage, Jamie Oliver and Grand Designs all had new series, and all are faves of mine... Well, they said it was a new series of River Cottage, actually it was just a rehashing of previous series, wha...

Los Angeles

So, we sadly had to leave Santa Barbara, and we drove on down to LA... Was a bit intimidated at the thought of driving in LA, I've only driven London once or twice before and that was a long time ago, mostly I've only done gentle village roads. The j...

Damn I had a really good headline in mind for this

SO, went to Ireland at the weekend, and it was very nice! Here will follow my little review of where we went and what we did, and things I recommend and things I don't.Friday morning we had a wedding meeting at Lympne Castle, TOO EARLY, and too many ...

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...

Weekend update

About time for a weekend update, all the things I didn't have time to write yesterday, if I can remember it all.I got in the bragging about the quiz, but just to remind you we were the "Uptown Architects", as we couldn't think of a funny name, and th...

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Where'd the site go?

Something up at the hosting centre has meant this has been unavailable, and me with so much news! The new computer arrived, so just plugging that in and playing now, all seems to have come up quite neatly. It's trying to sync with Outlook, which I do...

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...

Science Museum Again

Went to the Lord of the Rings exhibition at the Science Museum at last, and it's over-priced-merchandise-TASTIC! Good to see the costumes and the props up close, to see the quality of them and the detail that went into them. Wasn't overly impressed b...

Night of a million billion gigs

Saw the Yeah YEah Yeahs last night, at the Barfly, and it was absolutely ace. And not just becuase the singer's top fell down and I saw a boobie and also I was stood behind Justine Frischmann out of Elastica and that. The YYY's weren't what I was exp...