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AF&RM CAMRA says Gate 28 is reopening as a pizza restaurant

Not sure if that info is more up to date than what I read on Facebook. This is from the September issue of Marsh Mash, the newsletter of Ashford, Folkestone and Romney Marsh branch of CAMRA: The bad news, The Fox Willesborough was firmly closed when ...

Rated 5.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

David Devant top ten

Just browsing last.fm to see if anyone's mentioned the David Devant gig at the 100 Club (and they haven't), but I see this top ten of their tracks most listened, by users of last.fm. Who have installed the software, that monitors what you're listenin...
Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Sandbanks Restaurant, The Pavilion, Wear Bay Road - Sat 23rd Aug

I haven't written one of these reviews for a while and, to be honest, I wondered whether I ever would again. There are only so many times you can be bothered to write something about crap food served by people who don't give a damn about good food o...
Rated 7.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Free tickets for Zoo Thousand

You can get in free to ZooThousand and other festivals if you work as a volunteer... www.festivalvolunteer.co.uk for more details. Let me know how you get on.If you don't want to you can buy tickets here, still some left. Seen lots of special offers ...
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Lone Star Comedy moves to the Tower Theatre

The Lone Star Comedy Club returns at a new venue � The Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe in Cheriton, near Folkestone � on Saturday May 31st with MITCH BENN, MICHAEL FABBRI, compere MAFF BROWN and a newcomer�s act.Now the home of FHODS, the ...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...

RE: Photoshop Express

Flickr already does have loads of photo editing software - they did a deal with Piknik late last year and they offer far more than Photoshop Express (in my view). Photoshop Express is just cashing in on the Photoshop brand, trying to pull consumers ...

Photoshop Express

Free online photoshop? More like a rival to Flickr really, host your pictures and do simple editing of them. Guessing most people use photoshop for more heavy-duty monkey business that Potatoshop Express won't do. I use GIMP (though not very often an...

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...
Rated 5.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

What's happening to The Usual Suspects?

Long closed bar The Usual Suspects seems to be in the process of renovation / conversion at last:We do need more good pubs in that area, The Creative Quarter does need a fine landmark defining local, but I'm not convinced that's what it'll become, if...

Quite Interesting

Went back to QI, and it was ace, glad we made the effort. I had the afternoon off, and got away on time, so I had hours to kill before the show. I went to the National Gallery, and saw some paintings, it was nice. Then I wondered around Soho grazing ...

It's the end of the world.

No, not that end of the world, something a bit more lighthearted. Possibly. In an age where any security camera footage of a crime seems to be inconclusive, or not good enough quality to be of any use, or just not pointing the right way at the right ...

The BBC's non commercial (ha) so they've not missed out on anything

It's good what the Guardian did I reckon...I had lots more to post about Hot Fuzz, but then I got distracted by things... brilliant that Cate Blanchett played his girlfriend and you never see her face, and that there was no love interest shoehorned i...

So are we going to Glastonbury or what?

I suspect not this year, as we have a lot on in June anyway, but if we were we'd have to register in advance... Weird. Will it beat the touts? I doubt it, unless all the artists' guests have to register in the same way, just as far in advance.Who wil...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Interesting pop chart changes afoot, now downloads are eligible for the chart even if there is no corresponding CD single available. As this is a relatively new technology, changes are happening all the time I'm sure, but this is quite a meaty one. W...

Christmas telly

Time for some christmas roundup type things, I really did have a great time during our extended break, so much so that I didn't post all the tedious minutiae (can you tell from my embiggened vocabulary I've been playing a lot of Scrabble?), so I'll t...

Welcome to Miami!

Or, rather, from Miami, or even (by the time I write this up) hello from England, Miami sends its regards. Just BACK from a trip to the US of States to visit Clare's bro and sister-in-law in the pan-handle bit of the Americas. Tiring flight over to M...

Ticket to Rye

we are going to Rye on Saturday, for an afternoon / evening, a look round, drinks, dinner and that... Will make a nice change, and we're going by train, so can relax (ie get boozed up). On the way back because of the way the trains work out we either...

BBC NEWS | Politics | Stags should pay for embassy help

What on earth is this all about? I've been on lots of stag do's abroad (and have another two lined up, woo!) and no-one in any of our parties has been in trouble with the law. Where do they get this 24% figure from? Who did their research, was it the...

Lone Star Comedy mini review

Went to the Lone Star Comedy night at Lanterns, and it was ALRIGHT! Wasn't quite the show that was advertised, but as an added bonus we got in at a discount, so it all pans out. This was a civil service special, worked out a fiver each on booking a t...

Lone Star Comedy

MATT WELCOME (our headliner comes finely recommended from our twin club in cranleigh, where he has ripped the roof off not once, but twice! he displays a sharp, snappy skill for comic writing and claims to deliver more gags per minute than any other...
Rated 5.28/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Folkestone without the views and the faded grandeur

Didn't see Folkestone on the TV last night, that's mostly a good thing I think. Kirstie Allsop and Phil Spencer presented a rundown of the best and worst towns to live in, based on some criteria or other. Folkestone didn't come in the top ten (there'...

When commuting goes bad

I'm getting bored of this terror alert lark now, last night it took us more than five hours to get home. Got the train as far as Marden, when we ground to a halt, a suspect package on a train in front of us. So we waited, and waited, and probably sho...

Please drive by carefully in our village

One of the very few things I'll miss about not commuting into work on the 243 bus any more is the graffiti. There are some big works by Banksy and others that you get a fine view of from the Kingsland Road. A reallly simple one just said Please drive...

Splish Splash!

Boozetastic weekender in Folkestone, starting off with a shock drink in London! I rarely go out in the week any more, but popped in The Mynt Rooms for one with work chums, nice place, flash but comfortable, no ales but one pool table. Then, ONWARD, t...

Paul's

When I mentioned, a few reviews back, that Folkestone was fast becoming a culinary wasteland I had, of course, forgotten about Paul's. This memory lapse was in part caused by a horrible meal we had there previously. But, that was 5 years ago and i...
Rated 6.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

more on the face

not really allowed to say much, otherwise will risk losing payoff. one could of course speculate that a resurgent Face would embarass Emap - making it look as though they were the problem, not "market conditions"alternatively, an observer might sugge...

Death of an Ambassador

They're killing off Casino Royale! Got word from the Ambassador himself, that while on the one hand we can all celebrate the fifth birthday of London's most sophisticated club night, we also mourn it's passing, as this Saturday will be the last ever ...

Koreans play Bobs

Oooh! It's getting hot in herre! So come up to Kings Cross! Or something. Cos it's summer and Bob's is back again with the best party this side of a blingbling bunker. And the talent for this month are straight outta the bunker. The disused Railtrack...

Electric Six, The Crimea and American Analog Set at the Barfly

Right, I messed up my weekly task for Big Brother (AKA Barfly what sit upstairs) so instead of crying in the diary room I am running this news piece for them to make up for it.If Grandaddy ever had the inclination to trim their beards and tidy themse...