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Vegan lasagne

Who'd have thought you could make vegan lasagne? Went for a dinner party last night, very sophisticated, round at Dom and Jen's. Dom and Dean made lasagne for the main course for everybody, with a vegan friendly roast vegetable lasagne for me, and it...
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Folkestone double death plunge smash horror tragedy!

Yoinks, yesterday someone chucked themselves off the roof of Bouverie Square in Folkestone, and today the end of our road was sealed off by police because of a "scene". Police were stopping anyone getting close to what had happened, so a) we had to w...

House hunt

Two houses today in Canterbury, different parts of town, but with things in common. For starters, both too expensive really at 250k each. If the market really is tumbling we might be able to make a cheeky offer on just about anything we see now thoug...

RE: Poor Jimmy Godden

I am so pleased that someone is concerned about Mr Godden's spate of bad luck, I am sure that Jimmy will appreciate this community spirit - after all Mr Godden has always had the towns' best interests at heart. It is good to know that there is one de...

Time Travel

came across this site by accident and started reading stuff,then looked at your little film of the snow.I was in Folkestone the same day, as Andy (my husband) and I often visit Folkestone and combine a bit of shopping and being by the sea(one of our ...

RE: Hiring a cart or stall in Hempstead Valley shopping centre Gillingham

Hi Sarah,

If you are interested in looking for a pitch/handcart at Hempstead Valley, Could you please contact Hempstead Valley direct.

Their telephone number is 01634 387076.

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 ...

Quiet few days

Had a lovely weekend, disastrous in terms of house hunting, but great in every other ways. We didn't get to see any houses this weekend, there don't seem to be any on the market really that fit our requirements. We saw a couple of new houses online t...

Folkestone recycling

I live in block of flats in Sandgate Road where the only on-site facility for recycling is for paper and card and plastic bottles. Is there anywhere near I can re-cycle glass, e.g. supermarkets? Do not use car much for shopping and have not noticed...

Lost: bit annoying

Watched the new episode, hope you enjoy it if you watch it tonight. I'm convinced the story's still being made up as it goes along, and that there won't be any actual answers by the end of the show. Some new ideas introduced, I'll probably stick with...

Fareham plays its part in the war on tourism

A local story that was doing the rounds yesterday about a couple being banned from Fareham shopping centre for life (for taking photos of their grandchildren) was picked up by Boing Boing. Apparently the guard who threw them out said they posed a ter...

When will they learn?

The Three Mackerel is now for sale for �85k - why why why? - that is just for the leasehold business, not the property! Don't prospective buyers actually look at the books? Season and (Cllr) Tim were a lovely, media-savvy couple, but couldn't make i...

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That's work done then

There's a very slim chance that I won't be sat in front of the computer again before christmas (though I know the wife will laugh when she sees this), so merry christmas everyone, hope you have a good one.I wrote that yesterday, but didn't hit send, ...
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If a picture paints a thousand words...

Does this video clip of us in Belgium this weekend make anything I have to say on the subject completely redundant?See, Mum, Dad, Clare and me on a humungous big wheel, part of the Plaisers d'Hiver festival type affair that was going in Brussels this...

Something apparently "as pikey as Wilkinsons" to open in Folkestone

What on earth could that be? And HOW on earth could it be? I'm still reeling from the thought of that new shopping centre opening with a pound store in it on its very first day. Now Wilkinsons opens today, some good bargain drain unblocker and that b...

Hiring a cart or stall in Hempstead Valley shopping centre Gillingham

Good Evening... I am looking to rent or purchase a pitch in your shopping centre...i am interesting in bringing to your centre a collection of beautiful jewellery...ranging from modern,classic traditional and beautful lines.I appreciate your very b...
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RE: Is Nero that much better?

85 coffe shops, 16 girlie clothes shops and 95 music and video stores, was in the shiny new shopping centre for 20 minutes and the security alarms went off about 45 times, bring on the chavs

Fake GAP voucher

Hmm, I smell bullshit, there's a supposedly fake GAP voucher doing the rounds offering a 60% discount at GAP today, I heard about this on www.bbc.co.uk/breakfast - don't worry though, GAP will still be offering a genuine 30% discount to anyone turnin...
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Bouverie Place shopping centre opens this Monday

I am sending my investigative reporter along, and will report back...
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York (being the fourth part of my holiday)

York is great, a lot like Canterbury, but seemingly with more pubs. Our hotel was the birth place of Guy Fawkes, and had sloping floors and four poster beds, proper historic. It practically butts up to the cathedral, not sure you can tell from my pho...

Weekend train fun

Planning a little trip to Winchester tomorrow evening, to catch up with old friends and have a curry and a few drinks. Staying over, so no worries about trying to get back here, and then meeting Clare in London the next morning for shopping and thing...

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...

Short weekend

Where did that go then? I'm sure I was only at work an hour or so ago and now it's time to go back again... Tired today, had quite an action packed weekend that just went too fast. Started off with work drinks in Trashford, a couple in the Phoenix (S...

What no comments all week? Really?

I am not a needy blogger, but come on... is there something up with the site? I know there usually is, but at least one message gets through eventually.Got quite an action packed weekend lined up, including lunch and shopping and rugby watching in Ca...

Frank Skinner last night

Quite a good gig last night, Frank was funny and rude, and likeable because of his self depracating ways. He did two sets, with an interval, and then came back to do a little song on his banjo too. He's on tour for another two months, so see him if y...

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New bar in town

Bank Bar, in the converted bank vault below Kalala, anyone been inside yet? If I wasn't laden down with shopping as I went past just now I might have popped in......

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Tontine Street war memorial (for Tim Bryan)

heard that there is a memorial site in tontine street that used to be a pub, got bombed in wwII?? Apparently there's a plaque on this site. Is it the little triangle at the end where the road splits?? (heading uphill from the amusements, etc.)[/quote...

Weekend good

The rugby was obviously attrocious, what a poor start to the weekend, but hey at least it was the weekend from that point onwards. As usual we headed to Canterbury, Clare on a slightly earlier bus than me so she could do some shopping, then Wagamamas...

Ouch!

Bit my lip this morning eating my breakfast in a hurry, drew blood and everything, and also the work I did at the weekend fixing my xml namespaces in jquery doesn't work now I've transferred it to work...Great weekend though, did our usual lunch at W...

Back to the weekend

I knew I'd written a few things this morning and forgotten to hit the send button, but didn't realise I'd turned the computer off as I ran out the door. I was about to blame the PC crashing, but it was all human error this time. So what did I have to...