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Elizabeth and Raleigh - Late but Live

Cool, I agreed to go to this (our company are sponsoring it) before realising it was a Stewart Lee effort, this will be great! I hope we still agree tomorrow night, going out for dinner after it too, this is not normal behaviour for us on a school ni...
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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

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 ...

Been quiet for a few days

No I've not been out on the larry-large every day over christmas, been a bit under the weather actually, though that's not what's kept me off the computer. When I'm not at work and Clare's home too I never get to sit in front of the computer, she's p...
Rated 6.88/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...

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...

Rated 4.73/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Programming is a poetry for our time

A fairly new song up on MJ Hibbett's youtube channel, not actually a new song, nor actually even new to youtube as it's been up there for a few days already, but hey I've not seen it and you probably haven't either, so let's pretend it's all new and ...

Sadly disappointed with La Tavernetta

We are new to Folkestone and a neighbour recommended La Tavernetta for our 10 year anniversay dinner. We are the type who manage to go out to dinner once a year as we have 2 small children and an even smaller budget for luxuries. I am the type who ra...
Rated 6.38/10 on Folkestone Gerald

The Hope Inn

Absolutely first rate restaurant. Looking forward to trying the pub half. Beer, food, service and ambiance all excellent. Thoroughly recommended.
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job

No posts for a few days, I had something to say but wanted to wait until I got an official confirmation and things. Yes I'm back in the land of the permanently employed, just arranged some final details today and I start at Holiday Extras on Monday! ...

More CAPTCHA fun

Now you have to type in a number when you leave me a message, hope that's not too laborious for you... This is annoying, but the sites are getting targetted by monster spam bots that are automatically posting loads of comments with links to pharmaceu...

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...

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...

I dream of dreaming

This morning on the train into London, while I was sleeping I dreamt I was on THE VERY SAME TRAIN! I was with some other people though, not the wife, and I dreamt there was an announcement, we'd missed our slot for coming into London and now we'd hav...

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...

More Javascript

Found the source of my problem with internet explorer, it's with var c = obj.getAttribute('class'); need to replace it with var c = getAttribute(obj,'class');function getAttribute( elm, aname ) { var avalue = elm.getAttribute( aname ); if ( ! ava...

More furniture

There's another bit of the furniture we've been buying gone up on ebay:i14.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/68/62/67_1_b.JPGNot sure why I didn't get an email alert about that, not sure if I'll bid either. Looks a bit wonky to me, as if it's been knocked about, o...

Google Talk

Google Talk is up and running, Google's answer to MSN etc... hope it can chat across networks, will find out. Seems it's a service that can be connected to with other clients, so a jabber type client that can also talk to MSN people would seem to be ...

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...

Here's my favelet

Hope this will reproduce OK on here:javascript:function%20s(h){r='';t=0;for(i=0;i...

73 RIP

PR time was in full effect friday night, so we ended up missing the Fighting Cocks, sorry charlie. Gossips is a fairly grotty place, but with atmosphere, and the evening had the feeling of a fully fledged event. Too late for these bones so, an hour a...

Poor wee mouse

A fright in the house yesterday, Clare found a mouse, alive this time though. Much shrieking and panicking, so I dressed up as a fat housekeeper in brightly coloured tights, climbed on a chair and beat it to death with a big broom. No, wait, that was...

V Festival latest

I've been quiet today, beavering busily on busted balance sheets, so HEY! Here's some news written by someone else; The Killers, Deepest Blue and Syntax have been added to the V Festival lineup... An old workmate of mine is in Syntax, friend to the s...

Hey Crackhead

I like This guys rant about his spark plugs, via www.popdex.com... Apart from that, I don't find spontaneous street crime that funny right now, got a bit of a slap trying to stop one group of youths beating on another group of youths last week. No, I...

Timothy's Wine Bar

Folkestone is in danger of becoming a culinary wasteland. Sure, it has the usual collection of OKish Chinese, Indian and Pasta / Pizza joints. But, with the exception of the cosy Kapetan Michales, you have to go to Sandgate or Hythe to get a half-d...

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Bar 98

Last night saw us drinking in the Rochester Castle (very busy, and not just with tramps and mentals) and the Coach and Horses, and then on to The Defoe (where I was roundly thrashed by Clare, and then to Il Bacio for the much anticipated meal...Seems...

Siegfried and Roy

Wondering if this "Montecore says Get The Horn" t-shirt might be too obscure for most of the popbitch audience... hope it's a money spinner for them. Now that www.peoplenews.com is gone, surely popbitch is prime for investment / takeover? Fingers cro...

Where does all this water come from?

Water is still streaming into the flat, seems to be running down the wall today, like it's coming through the roof and not just the gap in the window, so we've called the letting agent, hope they can sort that a bit sharpish!Giving away some shoes on...

A new 419 variant

Hmm, at least I hope this is a 419, as I've reported it, rather than claiming the cash...SUNRISE DE LOTTO, 41132, NL-1007 DB AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.REF: MCL/FLW/12-A782881207AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE We are pleased to inform you of the ann...