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Great 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...

New Cross Murder Map!

Just in case you're wondering how close the double murder and firebombing was from my old flat (even though I left there years ago), I just knocked this up for Mum and Dad, to give them a bit of a point of reference.View Larger MapIsn't google maps j...

Wedding video and new jeans

Had a slightly rum Saturday night out but then a lovely Sunday afternoon to follow. Felt a bit queasy on Saturday so although we went out to Folkestone in the day, and had lunch at The Whole World Cafe (felty queasy before we went there, certainly no...
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Plane crash latest and insider scoop, from your Kent correspondent

Nope, sorry, it's miles away, about as far from us as you can be and still be in Kent. BBC news on the crash here.We were in Canterbury yesterday when we saw this, in a pub of all places. We were due to be heading home at this time but someone got t...
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Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

Hell yeah, encouragement, that's what I need!

Well it was a lunch more than an actual party, and there's really not a huge amount to report, and you're not interested anyway, but HELLO TO ME IN THE FUTURE, how's it going five years from now? Do you remember that day, about five years ago, when y...
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Particularly 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...

Fullsome weekender

Well 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...

Crash? What crash?

I hung on for years and years wary of buying convinced there would be a crash. If I'd bought when I first could, even if there had been a crash I'd be better off than I am now. If I'd bought at the very top of the market just before the last crash, I...

Monday morning roundup

I'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...

Quiet night in Folkestone

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 ...

History in my day

Another bright and breezy morning, just cool enough to stop me walking down town in just a t-shirt, but warm enough not to stop me walking down town at all. I headed the usual route past the courts and the DSS (all the nice scenic points), to what I�...

How am I letting this slip now I have more time on my hands..?

Is that another week with nothing to say? Been a bit busy with all the eating and drinking and partying surrounding the wedding. Never mind the happy couple, let's have a picture of Clare and I looking all scrubbed up:Can I remember precisely what I'...

Not much to say for a few days

Been watching quite a lot of Due South (we forgot to update our Amazon list) and doing some work on my Folkestone maps when I've had a few minutes. Now weather.I've sort of been enjoying the weather. Monday daytime I thought was fabulous, around lunc...

Welcome 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...

Dover???

Damn, missed that show, it was all about buy to let / second homes anyway wasn't it?Folkestone has risen in price too much over the past four years to make it a bargainous buy to let - the rental value of my place would not cover my mortgage, though ...

Weddingtastic weekender

Might mighty wedding fun at the weekend, but I'm KNACKERED now... Headed back in to London Saturday morning for the wedding of Ralph and Linda at The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA for short), just off The S...

All my pictures at once

See all my pictures at once on flickr leech, or all anyone's pictures - now can you tell me how to sort out all those pictures that I've clearly uploaded twice. Straight off I can see all the Andy and Hazel in the curry house is duplicated, but can I...

Ride played in 1992

They played the Leas Cliff Hall, supported by Verve, it's on my Folkestone '92 page. Can't find the Manics gig on any fansites or anything, though I've heard other people say they were there. There was one gig lined up, then it was cancelled, then th...

Fitter, happier, more productive

I'm not falling into the trap of making resolutions, but I am going to try and get a few more things sorted. Had a fairly productive Christmas, so why not continue in this vein? Oh yes, spurred on by my new toilet seat, here's what I'm achieving...We...

We're BACK!

Back in work today, the wedding was amazing. I have several days to catch up on here, but if you want to cut right to the chase, here's a picture of us:More wedding pictures here... The long weekend started on Wednesday, which I already kind of cover...

The Bufftings take London

Folkestone's own Bufftings are trekking up to London, doing a gig only a few yards from my desk! If you fancy coming to London on a Saturday, and seeing them play with Rieser (from Edinburgh) and The Yam Yams at The Betsey Trotwood, get in touch with...

When commuting goes bad

I'm getting bored of this terror alert lark now, last night it took us more than five hours to get home. Got the train as far as Marden, when we ground to a halt, a suspect package on a train in front of us. So we waited, and waited, and probably sho...

Don't shoot!

It was raining when I left the house this morning, so I'm wearing a big coat, and it wasn't raining when I got to London, it was quite hot, so now I'm TERRIFIED I'll be shot for dressing suspiciously! What is going on there then? I hope there's more ...

Satellite spy pictures of the UK

Woo, Google Maps is up to date with satellite photos of the UK now, you can zoom right in... this update has caused a slight problem with my own interactive map, something's stopping it initialising properly, but once the map's redrawn (just pick a n...

It's on there don't fret

It's under Sandgate though, and not Folkestone... That's a good point though, when you pick "Folkestone", it shows Sanddgate as it's so close, but it doesn't mark the actual venues... this needs more though, maybe I should stop picking an arbitrary "...

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They can go high speed

but they have to keep stopping at stations.. there was a letter in the Folkestone Herald (not Folkestone Gerald) saying "it's not fair that the new high speed trains won't be stopping at my pissant hamlet station (I'm paraphrasing here) when it's st...

Weak roundup

Aargh, had loads of things I wanted to write, and I can't remember a word of it now. It was going to be a big eloquent post today, proper blogging, but now it's just going to be a scattering of mostly unrelated paragraphs.Joined the Amazon rental sch...

Expose Club

Looking for details of the Expose Club, Canterbury... Radiohead played there, if the many Radiohead gigography sites are to be trusted, but I suspect that one mistake in any of them would have been copied across the whole lot...The date in question i...

Big knobs

Who'd have believed something so ace could come out of Cheriton of all places? As part of our "Clare's bro is visiting from The Colonies" celebrations at the weekend, we had an ace curry from Cheriton Balti and Tandoori, really very good indeed. Some...
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