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Sandbanks Restaurant, The Pavilion, Wear Bay Road - Sat 23rd Aug

I haven't written one of these reviews for a while and, to be honest, I wondered whether I ever would again. There are only so many times you can be bothered to write something about crap food served by people who don't give a damn about good food o...
Rated 7.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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 ...

Turin Brakes play the Leas Cliff Hall in August, 08/08/08

Hevy is extremely excited to be presenting their biggest event so far this August, featuring two of their favourite upcoming bands supporting Turin Brakes at the Leas Cliff Hall.Leas Cliff Hall, FolkestoneFriday 8th August 2008 (08/08/08)Doors 7:00pm...

Rated 4.73/10 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...

Two completely different properties this week

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id...
Rated 5.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...

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...

Canterbury weekender

Had such a great weekend, it's taken me days to recover, and I've not fully gathered my thoughts. I'm in danger of forgetting everything though, so It's time to blat out a mini review.Friday started how all our Fridays used to start, with a trip to C...

History in my day

Another bright and breezy morning, just cool enough to stop me walking down town in just a t-shirt, but warm enough not to stop me walking down town at all. I headed the usual route past the courts and the DSS (all the nice scenic points), to what I�...

Yesterday's news

BAH, wrote a huge posting, to compensate for several days of blog neglect, and Firefox only done went and crashed on me didn't it... that's literally several paragraphs of finely thought out prose that are now lost forever. I need to write an "autosa...

Web 2.0

Thinking about myspace again today, as I looked at it yesterday, there was some piece in the guardian today about how Q Magazine "hilariously" made up a band and generated a buzz about them using myspace. I am a bit out of touch with modern pop music...

Get well soon Rich

Oof, chum Richy has just been rushed into hospital. He's OK now, but will not be joining us on the stag do. Most of the party are there already (I got many texts, their first beer was at 5.14am) and Rich was the one out of four of us tomorrow who kne...

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 ...

Haircut

So, I a bit of a trim at the weekend. Clean shaven and short modern slightly dishevelled hair which has possibly taken years off me.Snoozed all the way into work today, which was nice, slight delay yet again though. It's a cliche about commuter train...

Download: Stage Three

Not satisfied with simply hosting the biggest names from the worlds� of rock and extreme sports, Download, on the 5 and 6 June, will also be the place to go to see some of the hottest up-and-coming rock bands of the moment, as it announces its third ...

Gig Mental

So, yet another "modern" band books into the Leas Cliff Hall, when The Charlatans come to town on the 3rd of June... not a good day for us, as if all goes according to plan we're seeing The Pixies at Brixton Academy that day... an odd one for the Lea...

Rated 4.73/10 on Folkestone Gerald

RE: John WINDEBANK

Hi Robin,
I don't remember you.No coat of arms that I know of for Windebank's. All the info I have is here, no modern stuff though. I have put a message in our local paper for any desendants of our Windebank's, but have not seen it appear yet.

Trains are not so good today...

Heading down to Folkestone after work, will skip lunch to get out early...Been sent details for a dead cheap flat, surely too small, and a modern town house type affair, probably also too small, but it has an integral garage, might be worth a look......

It's really growing on me

Did you know the Darkness single "Growing On Me" is being released as a DVD? How frightfully modern! This is all down to the AMAZING video for it which you can see for free on thedarknessrock.com in all sorts of bandwidth flavours... this video is to...

Lord of the Rings Review

Do you remember the last time you heard applause at the cinema? Seemed to happen all the time when I was a kid, whooping and cheering as the opening titles rolled up the screen. This was Hampshire, so possibly it was the wonder of electricity that pe...

Always one to slap a good idea on the back

And not sit in the corner going "ARSE! WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT" I have to congratulate the SchoolDisco.com team. They've got an album out and EVERYTHING!20 tracks that other ironic-disco nightclub have been playing for absolutely ages all in one p...

Differ'nt Strokes

The Strokes, are five New Yorkers, and they've just sent a CD with a track called Barely Legal (on an EP called The Modern Age, out now on Rough Trade), that's got to be worth a news story, if only for getting this page in the "Billie Piper Naked" se...

Lesbians more popular than Metallica, shocker

In a report obtained from free-web-hosting.com, listing the top 100 terms people are searching for on the modern interweb, popEx has discovered the SHOCKING FACTS that the word "Lesbians" is more likely to be searched for than "Metallica" - but only ...