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Portchester Castle mentioned in the Telegraph today

Some ghostly nonsense, spoon fed to them by English Heritage:At Portchester Castle, in Portsmouth Harbour, a member of staff heard the sound of horses' hooves and then saw a riderless horse emerge from the walls of the castle, race across the area wi...

Important cool stuff from the weekend that I forgot

Forgot two things from the weekend! I drove my old VW Beetle in the first time since I don't know when! Sold the car in about 1993 I think, to a friend, and when it had finally conked out on him he offered it back to my Dad who towed it back home. It...

Punch up at the Seagull

I used to work in this pub, so did some chums of mine, at least one who reads this blog. My runner up memory of this place is happy times working in the bar there (after leaving The Harbour Lights but before heading off to do the BTEC with Nixdorf), ...

Lovely wedding!

Went to a wedding at the weekend, and it was lovely. Got out of work early Friday, trained up to meet Clare at Auberge, then a step around the corner to The Wellington at Waterloo to get a real ale, then another step around another corner to a pub th...

Portchester weekender

Spent a smashing weekend in Portchester as it was Mum's birthday yesterday. Headed over Friday afternoon on the train, meeting up with Andy on the way in The Golden Lion. Not a great pub but a good evening anyway and some nice pints of HSB and a chat...

Heavy snow both ends

Just back from the parents, we had heavy snow there at 8am this morning that settled, probably 3 or 4 inches deep in an hour, very nice to see but a bit terrifying, we thought it was there for the duration and we'd not be able to get back to Folkesto...

Art prank, or something else?

Someone's put "official looking" signs up around Portchester informing local residents that 600 new homes are to be built on a green field site, the Southern Daily Echo reports. Local councillors claim they are hoaxes, what's going on..?Councillors h...

Drug-crazed arsonist feared alien attack

Best local newspaper headline ever, unfortunately the rest of the story isn't quite as interesting.Great day looking at houses in Canterbury, will report in with map and pictures in a bit....

I knew I'd heard somewhere Neil Gaiman was from Portchester

It says so in this Time article... He's 11 years older than me, so I'm not likely to have bumped into him around the town.

Nice long weekend in Sandgate, Folkestone, Hythe and Portchester

FINE weekend, thank you far asking, good long weekend too, but a bit tiring. Thursday was birthday day (my birthday and also the wife's birthday), and while we were working in the day we'd booked the Friday off so we could have a night out with no fe...

Bands you've heard of playing... Portchester?

I thought Portchester was like the island in Lost, there'd been some terrible accident there a while back and tour bus sat nav system just could not see it. There's been another accident and Girls Aloud and Status Quo are to play there this August ba...

Flooding in Portchester

No-one told me about this! Fareham shopping centre closed, oh dear.Lazyish day today, been shopping to get ingredients for tomorrow's house barbecue. We've not met all the people who live in the building, but we're all having a barbie together. Our j...

A weekend in Portchester

Was curious about a new road called Caer Peris View in Portchester, dad found info about it on this Portchester Castle site explains that Caer Peris means Portchester Castle, it's named after a guy called Perrex who declared himself king. There's als...

A weekend in Portchester

Was curious about a new road called [map]Caer Peris View[/map] in Portchester, Dad found info about it on this Portchester Castle site explains that Caer Peris means Portchester Castle, it's named after a guy called Perrex who declared himself king. ...