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Great weekend (belated weeekend-o-blog)

Great as in really good and great as in just enormous, fitted quite a lot in. Clare was out in London Friday night, and had got a hotel so I was planning to meet her later and we'd stay over so as to have a nice Saturday there too. Work is busy as ev...

Folkestone Literary Festival Brochure - OUT NOW!

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008 - 1st to 9th NovemberIf you haven't managed to check out the programme for this year's festival online you'll be pleased to know that the brochures are now available in many locations around Folkestone and the surrou...

Google Chrome Easter egg

Sort of (you need to be running Google Chrome). Not sure that works even if you are using 'Chrome. Go to your location bar SUPER OMNI BAR and type in "about:internets".Wasn't really worth the wait, was it. Sorry....

Folkestone fringe

at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:this saturday and sunday cathy lomax and alex michon present l'estranger:where paranoid plup fiction drives out fact...a dishevelled young stranger arrives at a coastal town. his clothes are strange and his f...

Little Switzerland Cafe and bar

Visited Little Switzerland as we were told there was a fantastic view.We were not disappointed.Wasn't staying at the camping and caravanning site but if ever I needed that facility it would be the ideal location, beautiful views,clean and quiet. It h...
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RE: GBP49.95 for eight days parking at Gatwick airport!

Not quite, see location of all the airports here... I made that map! Well, google made it and I fed it with things.Thanks for chipping in anyway, whoever you are. Do you work for a rival parking firm, or have you just had a bad experience?...

Nice pub, nice location

Bit pricey though I think. Maybe I don't put my hand in my pocket often enough, but three quid for a pint of bitter and one pound eighty for a diet coke seems a bit excessive to me.Lovely to sit out in there garden though, it's the only place within ...
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Day two in Key West

A placeholder for write up and photomap and that. Map loading here, where I went with my GPS on 26/04/2008, the last 1000 locations anyway... var map; $( function () { if ( GBrowserIsCompatible()) { $("div.map").before( "Map loading please wait....

Are you sure Hazel didn't register in both your names?

I wouldn't think the BBC would spam out invitations for something like this. We both registered (in our own names) though I didn't go for the competition aspect of it, so I won't get some researcher from Radio One seeing if I'm fun enough (and young ...
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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...

I met him, so he's my friend

See.Just emailed you, glad you are around:I have some kind of mounted network drive available on my ubuntu machine that 'is' my windows box. I can open a window to it, see the files in it etc, but I don't know how to find it from the command line... ...

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...

Folkestone Harbour reef

Just spotted someone looking for Folkestone Harbour reef on this site, and I managed to rescue this info on surfing in Folkestone from the google cache of a deleted www.bbc.co.uk/kent page:John - die hard localFolkestone harbour beach has been going ...
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Two completely different properties this week

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id...
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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...

Today's walk around Canterbury

OK, not all walking, we got the bus to Canterbury, and the GPS kept the signal all the way as you can see... if you zoom in on Canterbury itself (which I'll try and do automatically I think) you can see where we walked. got some pictures to upload to...

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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If a picture paints a thousand words...

Does this video clip of us in Belgium this weekend make anything I have to say on the subject completely redundant?See, Mum, Dad, Clare and me on a humungous big wheel, part of the Plaisers d'Hiver festival type affair that was going in Brussels this...

sounds like the map is wrong

Possibly I don't have the right location in for "rye harbour" in the database, sounds likely, I will investigate.

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...

Nearest Wagamama to Folkestone

Just got this from www.wagamama.com, a list of the nearest restaurants to my house, in Folkestone (so most likely the nearest to your house too if you live anywhere near Folkestone. Obviously the Canterbury one is closest, but here are links to the o...
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Site's been away for a few hours

Maybe it's still away now, maybe you can't read this, maybe no-one reads this anyway, whatever, the site has been away for a few hours because the hosting company have moved me onto another machine because I was getting too many hits and that.Funny o...

I don't really know Coolinge Road

The location is handy for the station and for town and things though by the looks, I'm sure it's fine. Sorry not to be more help!

There's a road that's about 2 streets nearer to town that I really like.

Children of Men is OK

It's a bit grim, but interesting, and I love to see English locations in films, even if they're hardly recognisable.

Benefits of Costa Blanca apartment

2 Double Bedrooms (1 en-suite)2 Bath / Shower roomNorth / West facingCommunity PoolNear to town, shops bars and restaurants etc.Large Lounge / Dining areaCovered porch ideal for alfreso diningLandscaped front gardenConnected garage underneathExcellen...

For sale, 2 bed apartment, Costa Blanca (South) Pinar de Campoverde

This beautifully presented property is situated on the edge of the village of Pinar de Campoverde near the town of Pilar de Horadada. A very sought after location, it has everything you may need, only a few minutes stroll away. Just 15 minutes fro...

Hotspots created as Londoners flood in

Ashford is one of the most preferred new locations for buying in the UK - but other towns such as Ramsgate, Folkestone and Canterbury are all set to benefit from the influx of affluent newcomers. Ha, Ashford is only preferred by those who've not actu...

Folkestone property boom!

Well sort of. First off this bungalow that I pass every day on my walk from Westenhanger station to work has sold within two weeks of the board going up, that seems pretty speedy to me. I thought it might do, it's not all that to look at, but it's pr...

Seen the forum?

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2007-01-23 18:35.Well done Questers, I see you have discovered the mistake in the third puzzle of the Trial by Fire. The correct answer was indeed B. I have ensured that all players who clicked "I don't know" and planted th...

The wrong kind of trees on the line

What a great day to start commuting again. Back on the five past midnight train into work this morning (ok, five past seven), and in my semi conscious repose I became more or less aware that the train was at a standstill, somewhere in mid kent. The t...