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Today I started a new website, this is it. It's going to be a kind of weblog, a place for me to post links and stuff, and if anyone else likes it, in the words of the song, that's a bonus.Today I am mostly liking this house more than this, this, and ...

Yes we are in the UK

That's great information, thanks, we will be in touch by email! We don't know who May West was, but we'll try and find out now.

Updated the tree with new info

Some updated birth dates and marriage info...

Progress on the flat

Just heard from the solicitor, and the contract is on it's way, going in the post now, I should receive it Monday, and then I sign it and send it back, and then we're very close to completion... SMART!Also new thing from google.com/adsense, "channels...

All the names I know of are on the "All Names" link over on the right there...

http://www.clarkeology.com/names/

ah, it's the anniversary of the Titanic going down today innit...

The Joy of Hoovers

Is �209 a good price for one of these? That's how much they are in Stoke Newington Safeways right now. We're going back to get one, hopefully we will see Nigel out of 'Stenders there too....

Staying In vs Going Out

Just contemplating whether to go out and drink beer some sort of BEAR themed evening with chum MJ Hibbett at the Bull and Gate or stay in with Clare and watch some films she's got in, Ocean's Eleven and Meet The Parents. Also currently consuming the ...

One band was good

can't remember the name though, three piece from Newcastle, and bullandgate.co.uk is no use...Off to either the Defoe or the Wheatsheaf later to play pool... the Defoe is nicer to take our guests to, but the Wheatsheaf is only 50p a game, choices cho...

Pool rules

Witnessed a bizarre pool foul in The Defoe last night (we getting back on track with the Stoke Newington theme now) - ball is over the pocket, guy shoots gently towards it, but before the white makes contact, the ball falls into the pocket. So is it ...

Blur

Saw Blur at the Astoria, reviewed it here, apparently the song they did with Phil Daniels is called "My White Noise" and is featured as the hidden track on Think Tank... nice that it's done as a REAL hidden track, not just tacked on the end after a b...

Birdcage was too loud

The music's good, but maybe we were just sat at a shitty table, sound was a bit crap. So where tonight? Not back there, maybe to The Fox Reformed or whatever, the wine bar down the bottom of Stoke Newington Church Street, it's about the only bar we'v...

Royal Bengal

After a very short pub crawl yesterday (couple of smashing pints in The Defoe, then no drinks in Bar Lorca, as their "all cocktails �9 a jug" offer turned out to be a lie, then the Coach and Horses]]) we did end up going to The Royal Bengal in the en...

The pain, the angst

Trouser shop was closed, but I need something "smart casual" for later in the week, what's a guy to do? Felt like punishing myself so am listening to the new Stereophonics album "You gotta go there to come back"... some nice guitar sounds on it, but ...

Fight the power

It's trad in the world of blogs to link to other blogs that you find, so here's a fellow complaining about poor service, and here's my cow-orker, also complaining. Hopefully not about me. Tried to post these last night, but blueyonder went all shitty...

Save the 73

Mate from casino-avenue.co.uk forwards me savethe73.com - I'm quite interested to see a bendy bus in Stokey myself. I hope they divert it down Lordship Road for no reason other than to annoy the woman from N16 Mag who's made more NIMBY comments in th...

Clare's not keen and neither am I

We've had other people's weddings the last two years on the 27th, so our birthdays got totally sidelined, so not keen for that to happen again... it's like bein Jesus, the poor mite being born on Christmas Day, he only got one lot of presents.

Goldie Lookin' Chain MP3

Their appearance on Radio 1 is up here:funt.co.uk/GLCIncludes 'comedy' banter from Zane Lowe.Cheers for that Stu, Goldie Lookin' Chain on "The LeisureSuit Lounge" with Zane Lowe, Radio 1, 5th February, 2000 + 4, featuring:Zane Lowe's IntroductionHalf...

Oof, bum arse service in The Jackdaw

Just been to The Jackdaw for lunch, and though the food was great again (one Indonesian vegetable satay, one roast beef and one roast turkey, not all me you understand) we had a hiccup with our starter. The main courses came before the starter, not i...

Other people's blogs

Just heard from a mate, turns out he's secretly blogging too, and he found this page via londonbloggers. I will look for ettiquette type tips from him, and be exploring all his links and that...Not sure if I will wear my Iraqi Info Minister t-shirt a...

Holiday reading

While I was away I read Matthew's Prize: Being the Tale of a Whitby Orphan Boy's Longing to Navigate the Broad Seas though I didn't know the title was so long at the time... it's about PIRATES, and it's quite good, if a bit of a blokey version of a m...

Denim and Leather (but not actually leather)

What a smashing day, it's the first time this year I've not had my big coat on and have given the denim jacket a dusting down, nice... I will be up Primrose Hill later with my top off no doubt.Had a bundle of things I wanted to say, but spent so long...

Back in the Office

Todays tasks, same as yesterdays:plotting a rewrite of popex trading / price adjustingpopex admin, deleting accounts etccontinuing beast server rebuild - virtual servers may or may not be working...Sure to be more support for Barfly GlasgowMade a new...

Another task list

Up early to sort of fix broken noisy toilet - go Pauly the Plumber!Making a way of having "bands" in the popex database, without people being able to trade in them, or them being listed anywhere... starting with this guy as a test...popex admin, dele...

Mark Bolan's leather hat

H2G2 says Stokey library has Marc Bolan's hat on display. We didn't see it when we went there looking for it. Library has lots of videos and some DVD's to hire though, including loads of Buffy....

The Quarter

I picked up a magazine called The Quarter, which is a kind of fanzine for the creative community of the area. No, me either, but then I clearly don't know the place at all.. Anyway, it's articles and listings and that promoting a sense of artistic we...

TRAPPED!

I had a JOYOUS afternoon yesterday... I was working from home, nipped out for some lunch, got into our communal hallway and realised I'd left my keys in the flat - both doors were locked needing a key to get out, so I was shut in the hallway until ou...

RE: TRAPPED!

Today's tasks:

☠Sending out a Junior Senior E-Card

☠Developing new email sending system

☠Roasting to death in the office

Doesn't the new Engineers album remind you of the Leas Cliff Hall?

Viewed from the underneath of course... hope the cover shows up here, otherwise check it out on Amazon...Tracklisting is:1. Home2. Waved On3. New Horizons4. Forgiveness5. Let�s Just See6. Come in Out of the Rain7. Peter Street8. Said and Done9. Thras...

Toploader

TOSSLOADER more like, ha ha do you see what I did there..?

Therapy?

�8.00

The Darkness

plus Goldie Lookin' Chain

The Darkness Passport gig

The Cure Passport gig

Amazing, we got in to the Barfly, read my Cure review.

CKY

Camp Kill Yourself, featuring Jackass Bam Margera's brother

Derek Acorah

A second night, who is buying these tickets?

Electric Six

Fire in the Disco! Fire in the Leas Cliff Hall!

Lemar

Pop Idol chap, "Best Urban Act" at the Brits, lovely voice apparently...

Chicago in London

?Celebrating a decade of decadence?, Chicago The Musical enters its tenth year in London?s West End and remains one of the hottest musical tickets in...

The Dark

Razzle of Hanoi Rocks previous punk band. Plus Sedated, Mutilate and Conditional Discharge.

The Almighty

Think I saw them on this tour, in Cambridge on the 24th...

Queens of the Stone Age

+ King Adora

The Fall

CANCELLED

The Pretty Things

+ Quiklik. Someone has memories of them playing at The Flamenco but I've seen a poster says it was the LCH.

KISS

plus Rage Against The Machine, Skunk Anansie, Thunder and Three Colours Red and L7. Got freebies from the NME and drank all the money I saved. Kind of lost it about five songs in and ended up in Covent Garden....

The Rainmakers

Don't know what day in February this was yet... Very poor turnout though apparently.

The Levellers

Gene Loves Jezebel

Not sure if the gig was actually at the Metronome or not, were you there, do you know?

Black Sabbath

Come on, someone must have been at this..? Maybe this was at the School of Art instead.

The Mavericks

The Enid

Possibly at the LCH instead?

The Enid

After The Fire

Catherine Wheel

With God Machine... Says "Meterodome" on the website.

Rolling Stones

The 'Stones came to Folkestone a few times, and at least a couple of different venues.

Rory Gallagher

Part of the Jazz and Blues festival

Suede

plus Mansun. I wasn't there but Clare was.