message query for other friends sites

It's so nice to have someone interested!

No objections to the scaffolding, I wrote a letter to the other people in the block, one of them passed it on to the chairman of the building, who lives next door. She emailed back to say no problem, and she'd used the same company to do her fireplace too. I met the scaffolder on Saturday, and to tie things in nicely we chatted about weddings... he's having 180 to his wedding and another 150 to the reception, which kind of dwarves ours. ANYWAY, cheers for the link, but the wedding plans are pretty far advanced now, and we have our own planner in Clare's mum.

Scaffolding should be up now, I wish there was a webcam pointing at the flat. Fireplace is being fitted tomorrow and I'm a bit nervous about how it'll turn out.

What you been up to then apart from getting free links for your friends websites? :-)

Also missing the Engadget podcast... I unsubscribed from all the others apart from Coverville.

Another restaurant we can't go back to

Quite a positive and constructive weekend, not as much pubbing as usual. Got a new washing machine delivered, (thankyou very much Dean and Dom for carrying it up the stairs) and done some washing in it. Also got the fireplace sorted, got the quote for the blinds, did some shopping, took out the recycling and started to look at honeymoon destinations too.

Went to Shanel's Brasserie at the weekend, this time with friends, and it let us down badly, we ended up with no food. More when someone else has written a review. Speaking of reviews, saw Goldie Lookin' Chain again, and they were quite good. Sound quality wasn't so good, maybe there were just too many of them onstage this time, more than I've seen at any of their other gigs... maybe I just couldn't hear right, but there seemed to be several new songs in there. Clare was less impressed than I, again. They're more of a band for chaps I think. Good to meet up with friends though. Got the vomit comet down to 'Stoney after the gig

Where the frig were KISS in this sorry affair... actually hard to argue with this, from a UK perspective particularly. The 70's were quite good.

*cough* *hack* *sniff* still ill by the way.

Clarke Family Tree

www.Clarkeology.com is our Clarke genealogy site, set up to host the family tree info dug up by my Dad Barry Clarke, and turned into web pages by me, Paul Clarke. Click on either of those names to get climbing the tree from that point, or start at this page, or see the surnames, or the family tree forum.

We haven't found any royalty or money yet, but we have tracked down some surviving branches of our tree that we knew nothing about, and found we had relatives on the Titanic.

If you think you might have a link into our family tree, or would like to put out a request for assistance, please leave a message or drop me an email - pauly at clarkeology dot com... If you sign up for an account in this section you'll be able to add / update your own family details where relevant. Cool eh?

This site also contains my blog, with links to all the stuff I like - Folkestone gigs, pubs, property and Folkestone restaurant reviews these days, now we have long left Stoke Newington for the delights of the Kent coast... Also the usual stuff (work, TV, etc), and I'm trying to keep my eye in with things like SEO, CSS, validation and other bloggers at large... It's also got some works-in-progress, www.popbitch.com, www.folkestonegerald.com, and other friends sites.

Instead of googling for something like Folkestone pizza to find me, why not just go straight to that page, with a bookmark or something modern like that? I recommend del.icio.us for keeping track of other websites, though I might revise that if Microsoft buys them.