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A mighty wind

Fierce storm last night, made quite a racket. Didn't realise until this morning it had taken down one of the trees in our garden:...

A new dawn, a new hope, a new America, etc

A shift away from Conservatism, it's Obama what won it. The number of seats makes it look like a proper drubbing, Barack Obama winning two for each one that John McCain did, and it wasn't close like George W Bush's controversial win, but it looked li...

Happy Halloween

Is there a geekier pumpkin out there?

A bit I contributed to from the popbitch book

Well kind of, Clare and I brought this tiger back from Las Vegas and gave it to Camilla, who has used it in her Siegfried and Roy recreation in the book:...

Talk about hedging your bets

New KISS t-shirts. I guess they're saying "just make sure you vote", but it's a bit like selling arms to both sides of the war isn't it?...

Arr!

Don't be forgettin' to Talk Like A Pirate today!...

VW Beetle "van" for sale

Check this out, a VW Beetle that looks like a van. Can I buy it please, the wife?...

Precision engineering?

Are you a major shipbuilder looking for some machine components? How about a vintage aeroplane fan who needs some custom remade components? Structural engineering components? Marine leisure industry components? No, I thought not, but I'm thinking of ...

Free art fun day at the Leas Cliff Hall, Thursday 11th September

Make clothes out of "trash"? Is this our Leas Cliff Hall, in Folkestone, or somewhere in the USA?...

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Attack of the Clones

I like this!Via kosso.wordpress.com....

Speaking of tipping, see what tipped over

This tree tipped up in the high winds I guess:That's the terrace / smoking area of The Bank Bar under that tree, don't suppose there was anyone sat out there with today's weather anyway. This looked fresh, it must have only just happened. Snapped tod...

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Tree blown down in front of Kalala

You wouldn't want to have been sat outside The Bank Bar today. Came across this on my way home today, looks like it can only just have happened. If you have a dinner booked at Kalala tonight, I think you'll be using the side entrance......

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Has anyone seen Clare?

And I assumed she just headed off to Barcelona as planned! Someone's got her! Can you read that phone number?I'm posting a lot more this weekend. Can you tell I am bored? I've even done some cleaning and some DIY, and for TWO walks around town....

"if you haven't already had a peek, go up to the bayle and have a look at window, no 13 the bayle."

That was the advice from www.folkestonefringe.com, so I did.Probably not worth making a major detour for. Perhaps it changes every day though and brightens up someones walk to work, from the niceness of The Bayle into the grimness of the town centre....

Some old photos of Folkestone

I bought an album of photos not so long ago and these photos of Wear Bay Road and Folkestone were included in it. I thought you might like to see them and possibly pass on the the ones of Wear Bay Road to any residents of houses featured. I don't kno...
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New google walking directions (needs some work)

120 miles on foot or two miles by road, hmm. I think they put these deliberate mistakes in there just to get people talking.Talking of google, www.cuil.com is launched, they've been spidering this site for a while, it's a new search site started by s...

Lovely wedding!

Went to a wedding at the weekend, and it was lovely. Got out of work early Friday, trained up to meet Clare at Auberge, then a step around the corner to The Wellington at Waterloo to get a real ale, then another step around another corner to a pub th...

Folkestone pub mapplet

Heard of Mapplets? No? Used Google maps though haven't you? Wouldn't you like to add the Folkestone pub map without having to visit this site? You can! add it to your map. Now you can find a local pub (or in lots of other towns actually) from with Go...

Elephants!

Clare saw elephants on the way to work this morning:

I bought a thing

This is what I bought at the boot fair yesterday, but was too traumatised to write about because of squished finger:It's a valet like this one, but a bit nicer I think. It looks older than it is and I've no idea what wood it's made out of, it's been ...

ouch

Limited updates from me today, just shut my finger in the car door, so only my left hand is in action.Not broken, but can't type so well. Oh dear, can't do the housework either.Made my first mapplet on Friday. Going to investigate more, mapplets and ...

Google are you taking the piss?

Been getting this captcha thing from google all day, it's because we work in a big office and all share an IP address, so to the outside world it looks like lots of traffic from one computer. Honest though, there are hundreds of us here.This time I t...

They HEART Folkestone, I HEART Folkestone

These guys love Folkestone, they have made these, tiny heart head, uh, THINGS. Clearly it's more I HEART NY than anything else, but I'd still like to believe there's a little piece of my pants in there - Clare's mum made me these in 2002:That was bac...
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the most glorious holiday destination in all England

Man alive we've had a lot of press over the past couple of days (we as in Folkestone, rather than me personally), it's been great. The weekend of Triennial events itself was good and there was a real buzz about the town. I'm not entirely sure that it...

Are you down with OPP?

The excellent Other People's Photographs project has been absorbed into some Channel 4 project and is putting their name to www.opp2.org. Only two pictures posted there from Folkestone, no actual connection with the OPP project as far as I can see so...

Bring me the head of Jorge Zamudio

Who are you Jorge, why have you only one favourite picture, and it's this picture of my bro-in-law's Miami apartment?I think the apartment is up for sale right now, I'm sure I can do you a deal if you get in touch....

Useful tips for guitar beginners!

This is what I was after, thank you Neil and Mark:cheat - don't use every finger on every string like the books suggest in strange cramped positions.if you want open chords 90% of songs are D C and G2 bar chord shapes and don't worry about extending ...

Where'd the weekend go?

In fact where did the week go since I last had something to write about? Had plenty going on, I put it down to trying to learn the guitar, and the tips of my fingers are in far too much pain to type, so sorry if I go a bit slowly.If anyone has any go...

Folkestone t-shirt

HiLooking for a Folkestone t-shirt with a basic design, maybe something like this...Can anyone help?Thank you...

We saw this

Strange halo effect around the sun, did you get it here? It was mad, I have tried to photo it but couldn't get back far enough. How do you get further away from the sun?Aha, reflected in my new shades! We really did see this in the sky though....

Brixton Academy

PWEI, plus my favourite band of the time Atom Seed....