2008-11-26UTC01:05:40RE: now all we need is the date...sorry to come to this really late...but the Metronome was a great venue...and indeed, i can confirm i saw the following bands there...cardiacs/levitationkingmaker (supported by Suede in the week The Drowners was released)manics (don't remember it bei... 2008-10-15UTC01:03:17Great 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... 2008-06-22UTC04:39:29Portchester weekenderSpent 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... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11351/Portchester+weekender"><img alt="Portchester weekender" src="http://static.flickr.com/47/129574428_cbc63362c1_m.jpg" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11351/Portchester+weekender">Rated 5.04/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-05-09UTC06:41:57Our actual first day in Key WestI realise that my previous post about our first day in Key West a) didn't contain any info, b) had things from our second day on the map, and c) has slipped down the page and no-one will read it. So here at last is the first part of our journey. Clar... 2008-01-27UTC07:18:07Two completely different properties this weekSaw 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... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10901/Two+completely+different+properties+this+week">Rated 5.04/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-11-18UTC06:21:59Particularly fulsome weekend, with curries.Splendid weekend, a bit different this time, starting off with a half day on Friday. I headed to Winchester to meet up with some friends, and really needed the extra time to make the most of the night. Clare stayed home watching Children in Need afte... 2007-11-12UTC02:27:28Fullsome weekenderWell I say full, full of pubs really. Friday night we stayed in, so as to have more energy for going out on Saturday. We had a trip to Canterbury in the day (and you'll never guess where we had lunch), no actual christmas shopping, but we went in a c... 2007-11-02UTC11:37:50RE: 10 myths about vegansBah, more self-righteous chat from the Vegans."Oh, look at us, we are all kind to the animals as well as healthy and fashionable really – and some famous and fashionable people are Vegans too you know. We are so misunderstood". As far as I'm concerne... 2007-07-17UTC12:31:54Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu... 2007-05-29UTC11:41:32Long weekendBeen away a long time (apart from my little post this morning about wireless things) and we fitted quite a lot in really, felt like a proper holiday since my complaints about QI.Our afternoon out in Canterbury was good, though not absolutely everythi... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10268/Long+weekend">Rated 4.07/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-05-15UTC12:06:21Canterbury weekenderHad such a great weekend, it's taken me days to recover, and I've not fully gathered my thoughts. I'm in danger of forgetting everything though, so It's time to blat out a mini review.Friday started how all our Fridays used to start, with a trip to C... 2007-04-16UTC12:47:46Hot weekendWeekend was ace wasn't it? We started with a lunchtime pint with work at a nice pub called The Drum, then a few drinks just the wife and me. Saturday we headed to The Whole World Cafe, and what do you know it was actually open this time? We were a bi... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10135/Hot+weekend"><img alt="Hot weekend" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2725136245_97d0de9be6_m.jpg" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10135/Hot+weekend">Rated 3.07/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-01-23UTC06:41:04I was looking for a job, and then I found a jobNo posts for a few days, I had something to say but wanted to wait until I got an official confirmation and things. Yes I'm back in the land of the permanently employed, just arranged some final details today and I start at Holiday Extras on Monday! ... 2006-12-05UTC12:51:40Belated weekend roundupWeekend start sort of badly, and then sort of worse, and then actually got going really very well indeed. Train home hit some kind of delay, caused by some kind of delay on another train. That's as much detail as we've come to expect in the non expla... 2006-11-27UTC11:00:35Monday morning roundupI'd heard of this before, but didn't know the reason why some councils are refusing to recycle shredded paper, that's pretty poor.Commercial director John Collis said: "The small pieces of paper tend to get trapped in the conveyor belts and cause a f... 2006-11-14UTC11:40:08SpamalotSpamalot was quite good, not brilliant, best bit for me was seeing Tim Curry in the lead role. It's all the same story / jokes as the film.Went to The Three Greyhounds before the show, very good, small but nice old pub style pub. Four real ales on an... 2006-11-12UTC06:56:46Number one result for "Habitat Radius"Was just trying to find the furniture we bought at the weekend, and all the top results are me, how strange. It's down to Habitat's website being quite bad, the whole flash interface makes it hard to index, so my pages are coming up top. ANYWAY, here... 2006-10-26UTC10:17:30A 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... 2006-10-18UTC10:38:26The Gay TrainNew video of a song by my friends MJ Hibbett and the Validatorsvideo is by Rob Manuel, of b3ta fame.All stop watching it, so it streams more smoothly for me... More Hibbett updates, courtesy of his newsletter:ITEM! After months of hard work (honest!)... 2006-07-06UTC09:47:19Drought, in the fields, the fighting's just begun...How irresponsible are Amazon right now? They're advertising this 'domestic' high pressure washer (400 litres per hour) and this upright high pressure washer (530 litres per hour) on their home and garden homepage. I went there looking for things to a... 2006-05-30UTC11:37:16Welcome 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... 2006-05-02UTC10:14:12Squirrel plants super walnut treeA lovely gardening story, not that much squirrel content actually. Now onto the weekend review!We went to Rye, and it is nice. We mooched around some very very old buildings and shops and things, and had a look inside Henry James' house, and did all ... 2006-02-20UTC09:58:48RE: DARKSIDED!!!I live in Seattle (geographically, just about as far away from this woman's home as one can get and still be within the US), and we're as dumbfounded by this display as you are. It frightens me to think that this woman votes, but at least I can now u... 2005-09-23UTC09:14:49Los AngelesSo, we sadly had to leave Santa Barbara, and we drove on down to LA... Was a bit intimidated at the thought of driving in LA, I've only driven London once or twice before and that was a long time ago, mostly I've only done gentle village roads. The j... 2005-09-21UTC02:40:00San FranciscoSo, 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... 2005-05-13UTC09:12:49Some GirlsSaw "Some Girls" last night, starring David Schwimmer, Catherine Tate, Sara Powell, Saffron Burrows, Lesley Manville I think... Ultimately a bit disappointing, because we'd built it up a bit.Since starting commuting we've not really done going out in... 2005-04-25UTC10:47:50SugarmilkI saw Sugarmilk on Saturday night at The Happy Frenchman, and wasn't really impressed. The singer's got quite a strong voice in the karaoke fake emotional style, and the band can play OK, but there was something annoying about them. The soundcheck go... <br /><a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/3306/Sugarmilk">Rated 5.04/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2005-04-19UTC03:14:12More San Francisco tipsfirst of all, are you staying at the W Hotel? If not, it is next to Moscone and the bar in there called XYZ is really great - and the hotel a nice place if you can stay there. Around the downtown area, for lunch especially an SF tradition is Tadich's... 2005-03-29UTC10:54:06Easter beasterA lot to write about, had a huge great easter weekend and really managed to fit quite a lot in. Can I remember it all is the question though... Friday daytime is too long ago to be sure, but in the evening we did a little tour of Stoke Newington Chur... 2005-03-19UTC01:45:29Local historyUsing my weekend here in Folkestone on my own for a bit of a wander around. I've joined the library, and checked out a bit of the history of my flat. I saw the building showed up on the 1906 Ordnance Survey map that I bought a while ago, and now I've...