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Jun15
Just in from work too late, this Habitat Radius tallboy that I was after just went, for 360 quid, and it was in Kent, bah. As always, I should have put in a higher bid to start with, but not being around at the end of the auction I'm sure I would have missed out.
Had a couple of days out ill this week, too ill even for computering, a strange flu like virus that absolutely knocked me over. Better now, but still aching. The most annoying bit of this was missing last night's Megadeth gig. How often are a band who were one of my absolute favourites (er, a few years ago) going to come to Folkestone? I paid cash money for the tickets too, and had no time to offload them. Clare was secretly pleased I think. UPDATE: NOT glad I was ill, but glad not to have to go to the gig, of course... She was worried that I was ill and would rather have gone through a couple of hours of twiddling metal than see me sick.
Got a fairly active weekend this weekend, Emma's visiting and we're off for tea at Escondido tomorrow, plus a bit of pubbing I'm sure. Tonight, will be going out somewhere, but then again there's part two of Dalziel and Pascoe on TV. I'm half way through a Reginald Hill audio book at the moment, Death's Jest Book, and it's brilliant. His books get better as the series progresses, don't know what I'm going to do when I've finished the lot, read more Rebus I reckon.
Bums, I really wanted that chest of drawers.
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Oct29
Saturday we went on a bit of tour of Folkestone, just to remind us and our visitor Emma of some of the less salubrious joints in town. We were originally going to head into Hythe and get a curry, but Emma already had a dinner lined up, so decided to cook ourselves up a Mexican feast at home and then just stay local. Was this the best idea? I'm not sure... the feast was mighty, ate a bit too much though, and this made me abit sluggish for the evening.
We started off in Harvey's, a favourite hangout of Clare's when she was a youth. It's a bit rough in there, but I'm sure it's great if you know people. They have a few beers on and have all the facilities like pool, darts, table football etc, but it wouldn't be my first choice of pub. FAR too much repetition on the jukebox too (Hard-fi, Hard-fi, Libertines, Hard-fi, etc), so one drink and we're off...
Next stop The Leas Club. Almost. We had a look inside, it was lively enough, but it had the air of a youth club, so didn't fancy that much. This was the first place we saw people in fancy dress too. For Hallowe'en, don't you know.
We planned to check out The Skuba bar, but walked the wrong way on some kind of auto-pilot, in the general direction of the harbour, so missed this out. Had a few games of pool to the strains of a DJ in The Ship, then on to a fairly ropey hallowe'en band in The Mariner. Ended up at The Brewery Tap, which was lively and full of youths, with a great DJ and things, but I had a really bad pint of dirty arse water there, which ended the night on a bum note.
No stop in at Chambers you'll notice, it wasn't entirely that we chose the worst places in town on purpose, but they did have a fancy dress do there on Saturday night, and it was pay to get in, and we weren't going to dress up, and so on. Bah humbug.
We did hear from Clare's bro who was in Keppel's bar, on our recommendation, with Clare's dad. And it was rubbish. The place was dead, only two or three other people in the whole place, which is surprising, as it's great there. The whole of town feels a bit quiet on a Saturday, I think that's everyone's night for going to a real "event", rather than just out for a drink.
Not a good weekend of pubbing all told really.
I went round the inlaws today with a view to cutting their lawn. This job was already done so I got lumbered with trimming the hedge into some sort of box shape. This must have used muscles in my arms that have never been awoken before, as after I couldn't operate my hands at all, not even to lift a cup of tea up to my mouth... what a weed! How do you exercise these dormant muscles? Without doing regular gardening work I mean.
Busy week lined up, third round for a job opportunity tomorrow, that sounds fairly hopeful, then off for popbitch drinks afterwards somewhere in Soho. Tuesday I'm going for drinks in London again, with the people I'll be working for next week this time though, so somewhere around Spitalfields sort of area.
Reading: Bones and Silence.
Watching: House.
Eating: Chilli pie, with leftover accompaniments from yesterday, including fabulous home made guacamole. Folkestone market is rubbish, but you can't argue with five ripe avocados for a pound.
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Jun22
I have a five pound Amazon voucher that expires this weekend, should I buy a new wireless network card, or a book? Ideally want to not spend any extra money, but I do need another network card, AND we've got a big stack of Reginald Hill books that we got on ebay recently...
