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If you google for Kaddy Lee-Preston

You are instantly served up a picture of me, lovely... That's my all time most popular picture on Flickr, just browsing my stats. Here's the rest of the top ten, with their number of views. Kaddy Lee-Preston and me (4,578)music quiz* (3,106)Jellyfis...

Psst, wanna buy a Tracey Emin?

A GREAT day around Folkestone today, it was the start of the Triennial and there was tonnes to see. Number one activity was hunting down the Tracey Emin's before they got stolen. She'd cast several bronze sculptures of abandoned baby clothes that she...
Rated 4.78/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Yesterday's house hunt

A trip to Canterbury yesterday, an early start, four houses to see. First one was a bit further out than we first thought, up Whitstable Road, though not an insurmountable distance to Canterbury West. The house is at the end of a cul-de-sac, so you h...

Second house-hunting trip around Canterbury

Saw five houses today in Canterbury, have a map with details of the things we saw. Clare's out tonight with Jenny, so it's a prime opportunity for me to do some fiddling about with maps and things, so sorry if it breaks. Not that you'll be on the com...

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...

Boom shake the room!

Well I suspect you've all been frantically refreshing wondering when I'd report from this morning's earthquake! Amazingly it was three and a half hours ago now, the power was off until just recently so there wasn't a lot I could do, no internets, and...

Train times did not work out well at all

The work is good though, I'm quite getting into Drupal, the content management system and so much more. It's quite good to extend, though not using traditional object oriented techniques, it's a bit odd. Train times did not work out at all, the offic...

There's a nice run of pubs right by Whitehall

I'll look up the names of them, there's four in a row that we went in one day, when we were staying in London because of Clare's work, they're on the road running straight down from Trafalgar Square I think... I'll have to look them up. Last cool pla...
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

A 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...

Interesting Folkestone / Waterstones / Ottakars rumour

So, with Waterstones having taken over Ottakars, it would seem likely at some point that one of the stores in town will close. This is not guaranteed (and I think The Competition Commission are having a look at things), but being pragmatic, it looks ...

RE: Down in the tube station at lunchtime

you should probably link to here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Street_tube_station as it has a good entry on this. in fact the section on disused lonton tubes is proper fascinating. on a similar point, i found out what that thing is that runs dow...

Down in the tube station at lunchtime

Our trip to Down Street went very well thanks for asking, feel very lucky to have had a bit of a spy around. It's not normally open, but someone has to go down there and do regular inspections so we managed to tag onto the back of that. The station w...

Down Street Underground Station

My pictures are here, not sorted or edited yet, had too busy and drunken weekend. Chums pictures are here and here and here, fuller writeup is here.PopEx is back, that's good, I wasn't really out of disk space just out of inodes, hmm. Just recovering...

Going underground

Half day today, it's the day of the great lunch outing, going with some buddies on a tour of Down Street Underground Station this afternoon. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), was a station of the ...

On my own today

Work's been a bit hectic, my IT colleague is out sick, so I'm fielding all enquiries (though generally just batting them back with "dunno, turn it off and on again"). Also Clare is working from home today, so I had to commute in on my own, I think th...

Terry Waite

I swear it was him, his beard was very white. Sunday lunchtime, just gone, 16th October 2005...

Richard Corrigan

He's the chef from Full On Food, he was strolling along Cannon Street away from the station. Friday evening, rush hour.

So, one week as a married man

Damn, do you think they make these but not in leather? I think I need one.It's got built in massagers and a fridge and a phone, as well as being a regular comfy recliner... You can get it at www.drinkstuff.com, I should see if they have an affilliate...

What a day to stop getting the tube

OK I stopped getting the tube last week, but yesterday was travelcard renewal day, and I got just the train part and no tube, saving me fifty quid! But it's booting it down at rain, so I've hd to put my big coat on. Then at Cannon Street the rain had...

Someone spotted the pattern of Thursdays then

Every point of my journey through London was crawling with police today, nice one, I saw them ticketing someone for something at Cannon Street station too. Possibly not for suicide bombing though, it all appeared to be quite calm. Even the mountain b...

Four Men On A Train

Not a bad journey in today, except for Four Men On A Train sat on the table next to us who gibbered business speak all the way in... Has felt like something's kicking off since we got to town though. Clare's District Line tube from Cannon Street was ...

Walking from Bank to Cannon Street

Oi, GOOGLEMAPS, NO! That's not the quickest way... I didn't actually need to check a map on this in the end, just follow the thronging masses all going the same way. Made my train home yesterday nice and quickly, though we were lucky to get home as q...

Folkestone train times

Folkestone trains are a bit messed up for the whole summer, possibly the next six months. To travel at about the same time, and not have to change trains at Ashford or anything we have to get trains to / from Cannon Street instead of Charing Cross......

I used to do Clerkenwell-Cannon Street and it's pretty easy - 521 bus from Chancery Lane tube/ Holborn Viaduct, or failing that, I think a 17 does it too.It's walkable as well, and Moorgate station is only 10 mins (brisk!) walk from Cannon Stret.Fail...

Mens formal wedding hire, Kent, UK

Man, having a hard time searching for this stuff, too many duff sites, so going to post the ones I find here... What do you mean I should have sorted this already?Dickies Suit Hire, 72 Wincheap, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3RS These are the ones I'm going w...

You've been framed

BBC reports about a burgliar caught on a webcam, and the 11 month sentence he got... have a look at the homeowner Duncan Grisby's site with the original pictures on, in that third one down is the burglar doing that "pretending I'm just rubbing my eye...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Christmas roundup

Had a GREAT Christmas break in Folkestone, quite a lot of sitting in and relaxing, playing dominoes, watching DVDs (lots of series one, why did Doyle leave? He's WHAT???) and remarkably not eating out once. Normally a trip there means restaurants fo...

Old Street Art Pranks

Saw a wacky situationist prank at Old Street this morning, a breakfast table set up on top of a bus shelter, with bowls, cups, plates, milk jugs, the lot. Snapped a pic but can't get it off my phone until I get home. It's got a mention in London By L...

Oops

made a bit of a mess of the site on Saturday, just before I was due to head out for Mark's birthday, typed "rm init.pl" instead of "vi init.pl", no backup of this file or anything... so had to try and recreate it from scratch. Luckily it's just confi...

Kitchen Sink Discotheque

The Kitchen-Sink Discotheque episode #5, 28th May, The Star & Garter on Fairfield Street, Manchester [behind Piccadilly Station], Doors 8pm - �4 before 9pm / �5 afterwards (0161) 276 6726Get tickets hereFeaturing live acts:Laura Aura & the Shoy Shoy ...