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Today we went for a walk

A bit of a nature ramble, looking for wild mushrooms. Didn't find any, but we did see this sign:We did not touch anything, so it neither exploded, nor killed us....

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...

RE: Do these look poisonous or what?

I'd say no - Russian Roulette with mushrooms does not sound like an interesting way to die. It does sound like an amusing way for someone else to die though, you would be the source of many jokes.In other news, I heard this quote from Douglas Adams t...

Do these look poisonous or what?

I saw tonnes of them today.In other wildlife news, seeing lots and lots and lots of rabbits near work at the moment, because I'm walking by their field around dusk, when they are quite bold. Also I saw a massive massive rat in Folkestone, when Clare ...

A journey into the unknown...

Went to Ashford yesterday, for a day out, as Clare had the day off and we wanted to go bowling. Man alive, it's rubbish there... I'm kind of glad we hit the very worst high street type parts of the town first, as it meant that Ashford grew on us as t...

RUBBISH

Do not go to this pub, it is rubbish,we waiting over an hour for our food, we had a table of six and two of the meals came out 20 minutes after the first four. Some food was cold, some burnt to a cinders, rude staff, gruesome tv show on while eating,...

All mine all mine

James Herbertesque sort of weather today, very foggy at home, and all the way into London... makes things seem a bit quieter, I wonder if the fog is really absorbing sound...Great weekend, tiring though, I could do with being asleep right now. After ...

Rated 7.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

And we did return to Escondido

And it was good again... still popular, as we could only be squeezed in for a table at nearly 10pm, booking in advance... guess this shows that there's not a lot of choice in the area and / or people get frightfully excited about any new restaurant. ...

Rated 7.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Result

The TV Go Home Book fetches big bucks on ebay... well relatively, I'm going to sell mine and can probably expect 30 quid... Thanks the popbitch board for that little insight. I also just learned that you can read Tommyland online. For free!Last night...

Mushroom not so magic

Up early this morning, on a quest for mushrooms in Sussex. And came back empty handed. Not sure what went wrong, the conditions were meant to have been perfect, but still we're hungry, just beans on toast for lunch. Got home just in time for the deli...

San Francisco

So, part the first of my big holiday / honeymoon write up. Slight preamble, some experiences on the way there. Our flights were at nice civilised times, but to save any rush and extend the holiday a bit, we booked into a hotel at Heathrow. But it was...

Nicola's Portofino menu

We're booking a HUGE table at Nicola's Portofino soon, so they've offered us a special set menu to make sure we all get fed at the same time... I don't usually post menus up here, as I don't have them, but I thought I would with this one, seeing as I...
Rated 2.71/10 on Folkestone Gerald

We grew some of those home mushrooms once and left them to grow in the darkness of the garage - after the first crop we went back there a few weeks later and the whole thing was just full of mould and flies. Smelt nice too. Wonder if the cats found...

Home grown

I'm giving up on my home grown mushrooms now, I only got two harvests out of them, I don't think I kept them warm enough .Now I'm moving on to herbs, I bought a little propagation starter kit at the weekend from Morrisons, with some seed mint, thyme,...

Curry!

I done some good cooking yesterday, a curry from all fresh spices and things, it's: the curry recipe I linked to here a while ago and it was really really good. We used various mixed veg, potato, peas, mushrooms and things. ACE! We doubled up, thinki...

They're good old fashioned eating mushrooms

My bro in law to be suggests that the big mushroom in the tree is a razor strop fungus, doesn't look like any of these though. It's hard to tell just from my snap though.I love The West Wing, we are still on series one though, only a few disks in, we...

mushrooms?! TUT

do they take you to a higher level of consciousness?anyway, how good are the album releases next week? cant stop listening to dont phunk with my heart - that's a bad tune.my main news is that after 92 hours of viewing i have FINALLY finished watching...

Mushroom Magic

Double bill of mushrooms today, a WHOPPER of a wild bracket mushroom spotted right outside our flat for starters. Not actually eating starters, it doesn't look like it's an edible one to me, but I will go off, look it up and come back and change this...

Commuting, day two

Today's journey in was alright, Clare slept for half of it, but I mostly sat and looked out of the window, and read more of A short history of nearly everything. It's very interesting, though a bit frightening in places, and upsetting in others. DON'...

Folkestone roundup

Ref Leaves Field After Stab Threat in Folkestone... Referee Gavin Hoare ran and hid and demanded police protection after supporters allegedly threatened to attack him and his family.... John McCrirrick gets in a bit of a row, and a 54 year old Tunbri...

Vegetarian and vegan cuisine isn't just for protesters anymore

So says sanfrancisco.com... we've picked our honeymoon now, and it will involve a stop in San Fran, so this restaurant sounds good!San Francisco's Millennium, located in the Savoy Hotel, features a completely animal-free menu and serves artfully pres...

I want your mushrooms. Where are they?

Folkestone in the Guardian today, in a story about how magic mushrooms have come back into the mainstream and the highstreet, and then suddenly there's a superbad crackdown again:One retailer caught in the police crackdown was Andy Burgess, who runs ...

More Mushroom Magic

Bedgebury Pinetum was one of the places we unofficially had a bit of a look for mushrooms the other day... if you fancy ago without being chased off by the gamekeeper, they organise official events there, with a chance to eat what you find:Sunday 3 O...

Our mushrooms

mushrooms!That's wood hedgehogs on the left, then some chanterelles, then a lone porcini at the back, then some boletes on the right....

Folkestone mushroom magic

A very satisfying and self sufficient weekend, off to a secret woodland location to hunt for wild mushrooms. I was expecting a nice walk, an empty basket, and a pub lunch, but no! In about four hours of tramping we managed to bag a brace of chanterel...

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 6.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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Five minute mushrooms maaaaaan!

Memepool

Fifty grand's worth of comic here, all scanned in, thanks to www.memepool.com for that link, something interesting and random every day, check them out...Had some Good Cooking for lunch, real back of the cupboard stuff, pasta and a jar of sauce I've ...

La Bamba

Went to La Bamba Mexican restaurant in Hythe, the one that used to be called Panchos... menu seems to have changed and I was worried I'd find nothing to eat but, note to self, the chimichanga was safe, and great. Diet went out the window for the nigh...
Rated 3.38/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Chinese Mushrooms

Mushroom recipe from Neil:Big load of mushrooms (about 1/2 a pound), quarteredgarlic (several cloves)3 tsp five spice powder1/2 tbs grated fresh gingerlarge onion, sliced thinly2 tsp veggie gravy granules1 tsp soy sauce1/2 tsp hot pepper sauceoil for...