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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...

Cure tickets

Seems it's nearly time for our annual pilgrimage, The Cure are playing the O2, it's an NME brats show, except it's called the Shockwaves big gig now. Seems they're playing Brixton the night before but it's at the awards ceremony. I've been before, la...
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ARTISTS EAT THEIR WORDS

... the opening of a most glorious exhibition, titled Shed of Leaves, by artists from Folkestone based group, White Shed, who are gaining quite a reputation for diverse and interesting exhibitions. The works on show all have a literary theme or conne...

creative support ofr Poppy Appeal

PRESS RELEASE17TH OCTOBER 2008NO EMBARGOART GALLERY SUPPORTS POPPY APPEAL IN SPECIAL WAYThe Fofu Art Gallery on Rendezvous Street in Folkestone is supporting this years Royal British Legion (RBL) Poppy Appeal in a very special way by dedicating an en...

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...

Some details from this week's Herald about Gate 28

According to the Folkestone Herald:It's under new ownership because Roger DeHaan sold the freehold, hmm why would he do that? I wonder if it's because Jimmy Godden has been buying up properties on the same street.The same owner owns the Gate Inn in H...

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FOLKESTONE LITERARY FESTIVAL 2008

FOLKESTONE LITERARY FESTIVAL 2008 - 1st to 9th NovemberThe full programme is now available on the festival website www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk where you can also book tickets online.Top names this year include Kate Adie, Will Self, Denis Norden, Sir ...

Folkestone Literary Festival lineup out at last

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008 official site has the lineup at last, in a hard to digest pdf format, get it here. All the show times, runners, riders, etc, though I wish they'd put out a text version a bit quicker instead of waiting for that to co...

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008

Where is the lineup? www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk has nothing yet. I really should have already joined up as a friend and be running their site for them shouldn't I...Names I've heard so far include Will Self, John Hegley and a return for local lad Da...

It is about the Whole World Cafe in the Old high street

when you go in the cafe you do not know what to do i.e self serve or be sit and be served.. it turns out it depends on the mood of the owner. The eldery Irish lady seemed bored to be there but i did order my food which was hard work as the black boar...

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Folkestone fringe

at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:this saturday and sunday cathy lomax and alex michon present l'estranger:where paranoid plup fiction drives out fact...a dishevelled young stranger arrives at a coastal town. his clothes are strange and his f...

FAREWELL LEAS GIG FOR BATTLESKA GALACTICA

BATTLESKA GALACTICA play their farwell gig at the Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone on Saturday September 6th which also doubles up as a CD release party!The "That Is Really All" show also features LOS SALVADORES, TAR and TWICE THE SIZE.Energetic skacore...

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This weekend's Folkestone Fringe events

friday night at the folkestone fringe, invites you to two previews:at the cube gallery, tontine street:new work by andy tuohypreview starts at 6 - 8.30 pmall welcome to see a continuation of some of the poster modern work seen earlier in the yearat g...

Signature Brides, Hythe

I am opening a new bridal wear studio in Hythe on 9th September 2008, called Signature Brides. We are offering an introductory rate of 10% discount to the first 20 brides and with only a few booking left I would love it if some local girls took the l...

wedding that whent wrong 1970

hi i have been looking for 2 people one by the name kirk the othere is dannel,dannels got wed in the town of folkstone in 1970, there was flower and eggs being thrown about and things went wrong after the wedding in the narrow street that go's down t...

FOLKESTONE SANDCASTLE COMPETITION 2008

Raising money for The Church Street Project, a registered charity providing Art Therapy and Counselling to children in Shepway.Are YOU the KING or QUEEN of SANDCASTLES?THEN PROVE IT!When: Sunday August 10th Start at 11am, judging at 2.30pmWhere: Sunn...

Sounds intriguing, something to do this weekend

From the Folkestone Fringe website:DIY fringe:if you haven't already had a peek, go up to the bayle and have a look at window, no 13 the bayle.I've got to go and have a look at that haven't I? I hope it's not a trick. The Bayle is a street in the ol...

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Just too late for the weekly mailout (again) Folkestone Fringe

From Folkestone Fringe:at georges house gallery:the king and I, private view friday1st august, 7pm30 years after his death, elvis presley still has a firm hold on the collective imagination and this still continues to grow as younger people discover ...

Google street view is OK'd for the UK

Here on the BBC, there were fears about it being an invasion of privacy, which would have been a shame if it goes ahead. It's funny how sometimes we're keen to give data away on social network websites and excited about every inch of the UK being pho...

Google mapping cars in Folkestone?

Tesselate says google mapping cars (that they're using to do the street view on google maps) are "about", not sure if that means Folkestone. Just wondered if she was a Google employee, as we have the google mapping cars about now, and I guess it woul...

The George in Rye July newsletter

We've been rather quiet on the newsletter front lately, having been nominated for UK Newcomer of the Year in the CATEY Awards, the Oscars of the Restaurant and Hotel world (sadly, the ceremony was not in LA). This award has previously been won by the...

There's me worrying about inflation and the economy in general

But look, free drinks, money behind the bar from a company that you don't even actually know, it's just like the old days of the first dotcom boom. I remember those "First Tuesday" or "Second Wednesday" nights or whatever they were when people who wo...
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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...

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...
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Are you down with OPP?

The excellent Other People's Photographs project has been absorbed into some Channel 4 project and is putting their name to www.opp2.org. Only two pictures posted there from Folkestone, no actual connection with the OPP project as far as I can see so...

Great live music at The Good Intent, John Street, Rochester.

Great gig at the Good Intent, John Street, Rochester, yesterday lunchtime, Sunday 1st June.A wonderful welcome from Karen and the guvnor, and two long sets from Andy Smythe, singer songwriter on vocal, guitar and piano, accompanied by Barry Targett o...
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events at the Hook and hatchet

Can we add some events at the hook and hatchet5 June Acoustic Open Mic with Ben Jones6 June Most excellent covers duo, Marc Antony.11 June Run VT18 June Irish Night with the Hot Rats19 June Americana Dance Night with Happy Trails2...
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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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Our actual first day in Key West

I realise that my previous post about our first day in Key West a) didn't contain any info, b) had things from our second day on the map, and c) has slipped down the page and no-one will read it. So here at last is the first part of our journey. Clar...

Pirate museum

There's a pirate museum in Key West, Florida. If you're going to Key West any time soon, why not call in there and tell me how it was? Some more Key West links, in case you or anyone know is going.Sloppy Joes a bar with live music, with live webcams ...

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Downing Street tour

12 Bar Club

MJ Hibbett is doing his first gig of the year at the 12 Bar Club, that's Denmark Street isn't it? Onstage 9pm, 26th Feb at the monthly Hieronymous Bisch Bosch night... seeya there.Last night's Valentine's pub crawl was very nice, we st...

Forum

Twice in one week? A friend at the time liked them...
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Brixton Academy

with support from Super Furry Animals and Stereophonics, who I don't remember at all...