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Apothecary cabinet strangeness in Surrey

You will of course remember this cabinet that I bigged up recently, it was listed for �100 and I put in a few bids for it, as I liked it and it's full price would be over two grand and it matches what we've got. It sold in the end for �545 to someone...

Attack of the Clones

I like this!Via kosso.wordpress.com....

the most glorious holiday destination in all England

Man alive we've had a lot of press over the past couple of days (we as in Folkestone, rather than me personally), it's been great. The weekend of Triennial events itself was good and there was a real buzz about the town. I'm not entirely sure that it...

Useful tips for guitar beginners!

This is what I was after, thank you Neil and Mark:cheat - don't use every finger on every string like the books suggest in strange cramped positions.if you want open chords 90% of songs are D C and G2 bar chord shapes and don't worry about extending ...

RE: Ricky Gervais XFM radio show MP3s

The earliest available recording is indeed from the 10th November 2001 although this has never been on the XFM website. The earliest show they've ever made available was from 12th January 2002.The Ricky Gervais Show started in September 2001, the fir...

Jaiku's joining Google

I forget the point of Jaiku, it was one of those Web2.0 startups that did the social networking thing, a bit Facebook, a lot Twitter (but better), for updating people who don't care with exactly what you're up to minute by minute... they were the fir...

Tip top weekend

For a change we didn't go to Canterbury, though we will be again this weekend. Made a proper session of it on Saturday to celebrate Clare's brother Kev's visit from the Miami. Lunch in Escondido, then a crawl around Hythe taking it (at least) The Bel...

Wagamama today

Going to spend a fairly lazy day around the pubs of Canterbury, starting with a lunch at Wagamama, and HEY, we got a voucher: That's from this feature that a friend alerted us to, we'd be going there today anyway though, nice.Had a good week, felt bu...
Rated 7.77/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Harry Clarke Good Housekeeping

This is nice, a Harry Clarke illustration in Good Housekeeping, to accompany a feature called "Women Voters & the Death Penalty". Nice, but a bit of a pricey start.Good Housekeeping volume 6 nos. 1-6; September 1924 to February 1925. Contains Clarke'...

So are we going to Glastonbury or what?

I suspect not this year, as we have a lot on in June anyway, but if we were we'd have to register in advance... Weird. Will it beat the touts? I doubt it, unless all the artists' guests have to register in the same way, just as far in advance.Who wil...

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...

My last things

My last day at this job started with my last delayed train on the way in to this job, fifteen minutes late, though I hardly noticed as I slept quite well on the way in. I suffered the grimness of the last blocked train toilet on this commute too, ble...

ZZ blows his top

So what was said then? Must surely have been something racial. Man alive it's a dirty game.Cream-crackered today, don't feel like I rested for a second at the weekend, not only did we stay up far too late on Saturday, but we went OUT on a FRIDAY! Thi...

The perfect crime

After the fabulous treat of yesterday evening (sausage, beans and fried potatoes for tea AND two episodes of Lovejoy), this morning's long wait outside the office was probably due. No keyholder turned up for over an hour, so I couldn't get into the b...

Cackling, dozy

Didn't sleep so well last night, perhaps it was the residual excitement of such a nice weekend, or maybe it was apprehension about what this week will bring. Either way, neither of us could sleep. So good then that there were some OUTSIDERS in our ca...

Habitat Radius book case

No reserve! But with a starting bid of �35 surely that' the same as having a reserve of �35..? These are only 90 quid new, think I'll skip it...i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/06/ae/8a/b7_1_b.JPGI did see a nice bit of oak furniture in an ad for www.pinepine.co...

Weekend of sports

The Rugby was great, made for quite a long and tiring day, but a fabulous experience being there for an international. The Wales v France game put paid to either England or Ireland winning the 6 Nations so it wasn't quite such an important game. I'd ...

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

No more videos for a while

Ace weekend, shame the weather was so poor, as it was again this morning. The family came, and it was very nice, though mostly I made them stay in the flat and work. We did go out for a mighty dinner at The Jackdaw, none of the adults managed to clea...

DARKSIDED!!!

Messed up footage from the American equivalent of wife swap... aren't people just great?[googlevideo]5464505634137914176[/googlevideo] My first embedded movie from Google! Don't think that should cause you any problems, or start up without you clicki...

Squirrels and webcams

Ew, bogus squirrel rat crossbreed... surely that's just got the mange and lost the fur on it's tail though? It's a bit of a scrappy picture, could be some potatoshopping going on too.Also WOO, cheers Andy, got my webcam up and running in the end - I ...

the friend of a friend (foaf) project

Just added some FOAF info to this site, more aout it at www.foaf-project.org. Not sure how it'll help or what it'll do, I like the idea of there being a completely open and owned by no-one Friendster / MySpace type thing... Wonder if this can be used...

I Am The Law!

I know I'm not the first to pick up on this, but I read last night's Evening Standard this morning (no, not The Metro, really last night's Standard, I found it on the train) and there was a piece about new powers for the police. It's being proposed (...

Les Foos

Went to the Astoria last night to see The Foo Fighters, and it was ace. Right until the last minute I thought I wasn't going, then got a phone call from someone at work to say he wasn't going and I could have his tickets, what a great chap! He's the ...

My gigography

Getting there with my gigography now, a list of every gig I've been to, from 1987 up to last year. It's a natural progression from my Best Gigs Ever post. Well that's the theory, but there's A LOT missing. I have chucked in details from the big bag o...

Text alerts success

You're now set up to receive Text alerts and you'll receive your first message in 7 working days time. ROCK! It's free and it's going to text me a mini statement once a week, that's cool... Tried to change my address online for proper postal statemen...

Whole lot of referer spam

Every time someone tries a fake referer spam on this site, I have code that detects it, and then blocks that IP address from requesting any more pages here... just noticed, the list's getting long now - do you see yourself here? There seems to be qui...

Home Alone

Working at home today, something made the central heating go off during the night, so no hot water, and I am too much of a wuss to have a cold wash. I'm not not going in because I'm unclean and smelly, that would be fine (for me) but my hair goes int...

Inspiration

Decided to sort out a work page today that was taking 15 seconds or so to load, that's not good! This is only on one project, and it's one I'm not working on any more, but it's still not good to know something I've written is so crappy... it's not hu...

Pod Squad

It's just starting to sink in what the pod squad that Adam Curry talks about in his podcast would be, it's a premier league of podcasts... there's a lot of rubbish out there, and while everyone involved is being enthusiastic about what everyone else ...

Stoke Newington Train Times

Live departure boards from Stoke Newington, that's quite a handy little page...Also javascript:function%20s(q){r='';t=0;for(i=0;i...