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Can only find first class high speed rail travel from Folkestone to London so far

See the journey planner, just testing it out with a commuter type service on Monday, I can only find first class tickets available for the new high speed rail link. And even then I can't find a train that gets me there particularly quickly. Can see o...

A whole heap of wrong things here

A massive stack of wrongness in this guide to London from www.latimes.com (via darryl1974 and bagelmouseuk) but it's an entertaining read and makes me think gor blimey mary poppins, when will we get up to London next? Obviously will spend less time i...

High speed rail link timetables out

New high speed rail timetable released today, slight repost from www.folkestonegerald.com. Still claiming under an hour from Folkestone to London on the new trains, which are due in December. ...

New High Speed Rail (draft) timetable released today

Read about it here on www.southeasternrailway.co.uk.See the actual high speed draft timetable, including high speed rail link between Folkestone and London Kings Cross St Pancras - looks like 57 minutes from Folkestone Central if you catch the direct...

Gate 28 looking FRIGHTENING!

Just walked past there too, and it was cunningly disguised as the place I would like to go to LEAST in the world. St George flags everywhere and a big banner advertising Sky Sports. I know a St George cross should not have any negative connotations, ...

Our day out

Went to London. It rained. Had a nice day anyway. Here's where we went: Map loading here, where I went with my GPS on 28/03/2009, the last 1000 locations anyway... var map; $( function () { if ( GBrowserIsCompatible()) { $("div.map").before( "Ma...

and then my ear exploded in a shower of blood

WEIRD dreams last night, partly that my ear burst in a shower of blood, and partly that I had gone somewhere on a train, and left my bag on the train, and couldn't get it back, and then we had to go on holiday and I was in BIG TROUBLE for not having ...

Big old fire in London

The fire is in the Immigration and Appeals Commission building in Bream Buildings. BBC has more, though they're probably lacking behind what you can find on twitter....

Heading to London in a bit

Luckily driving as all our trains are cancelled "icy rails" apparently. Got a SCARE when I friend on twitter asked if we were snowed in, wondered how it would affect our journey. But all good, off in a bit, full report on our return.UPDATE: 25 respon...

'baywatch - dining table in London

This dining table and chairs is currently at �742! That would be a nice little income in these credit crunching times, but also if you're thinking of buying this new you'd be making a saving of about 50%. So everyone's a winner!Designed by Simon Peng...

High Speed Rail Link services from Chartham to London

There will be... none. Chartham is not far from Canterbury, and the existing peak services will continue. It's not so important to us now, a village location would have its own benefits, but here's a round up. Currently there's a choice of three trai...

Knock on effects of the high speed rail link

853blog talks about knock on effects of the high speed rail link, how when our trains start flying up to Kings Cross instead of their regular old slow route it will free up some track time to enable a reorganisation of the timetable around South Lond...

got lots of non folkestone venues on here

Got lots of venues in Kent, mostly venues people who might go to Folkestone might also go to, Hastings isn't so far away! This one's probably been listed because of a local band playing there. I do have lots of venues in further away places like Lond...

So long Astoria

Catching up on what friends have to say, and I find out from Darryl that there is a closing date for the Astoria, LA2, and Metro. The sites of some great gigs, key moments of my time in London probably. A shame. Think my first time there was to see U...

Bumping into friends in London

KERRAZY, went to London last weekend and it was smashing, and we bumped into good chums Ralph and Linda and baby Astrid in GAP, what are the chances of that? OK, we had already arranged to meet up with them earlier that day at Pain Quotidien, which w...

Madame Zingara in London

Hi There,Madame Zingara will be in London at Battersea Power Station with our Theatre of Dreams for a limited run.We've just completed a two-year sellout run of our home country South Africa and are looking forward to entertaining London.More info ca...

Oasis tickets

Get tickets here for Oasis biggest ever open air tour in 2009. The Enemy and Kasabian to support. A chum just saw Oasis at Wembley Arena and says it was fantastic, but he'd not seen them since 1996 and been building it up since then. Of course I dive...

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...

A rare night out in London tonight

Meeting a friend here after work before meeting Clare later, and staying in a hotel, how decadent. Tomorrow, lunching and shopping.Camera update: it just sent me an email, the first in days. Always a bit nervy receiving a mail saying "motion detected...

Terry Pratchett's Nation limited edition.

I've got one of these a Nation special edition, I think. Dad queued from early this morning to secure one of these, and got it signed, good work!Had a great day in London where we also saw Terry Pratchett, he helicoptered between Hayling Island (wher...

Hot Leg Review - first Hot Leg Review EVER?

Was as we expected, maybe hotter, certainly smellier than I would have liked. We spent the evening secretly wishing they would play some songs that we knew - not necessarily Darkness songs, but maybe some cheeky covers, tipping their hat to their ref...

Hot Leg tonight

Hot Leg tonight at Proud Galleries, Camden, That London. Bit concerned about it really, got to leg it out of work at a pretty busy time for us, lots on at the moment. Leaving a little early anyway, train to London, hurriedly catch up with friends tha...

There's me worrying about inflation and the economy in general

But look, free drinks, money behind the bar from a company that you don't even actually know, it's just like the old days of the first dotcom boom. I remember those "First Tuesday" or "Second Wednesday" nights or whatever they were when people who wo...

I don't even know anyone in London any more I could go to this with

How Does It Feel's gig guide has it that David Devant and his Spirit Wife are playing Inn On The Green in West London on Thursday night. I even have Friday off! If it was actual central London I might be able to do it and get the vomit comet home. I'...

Bullet train does London to Ashford in 32 minutes

rail news has the details, that's nice, but when you think about it that's not really all that impressive - the current trains could do it in not much more than that if they didn't stop at all the stations in between. Still, looking forward to it, ho...

Popbitch is in good company..

Some prostitutes just moved into the flat below popbitch's office, lovely!... and be careful. as of yesterday the first floor turned into a brothel. with "lovely lisa, 21".so popbitch is now sandwiched between a betting shop/brothel and a pie company...

Richy is doing the London to Brighton

Sponsor him!Hello,I'm taking part in the London to Brighton Bike Ride 2008 on 15/06/2008 to raise money for British Heart Foundation and would really welcome your support.Please take a moment to sponsor me. It's really easy - you can donate online by...

Charlie Brooker says "Don't vote for Boris"

Here in the Guardian. Via OnionBagBlog.

Run Terry, RUN!

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 ...

Oliver in London