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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....

No sign of Nigel

but the Dyson was fine - one pass of the living room though and the chamber (there's no bags in these non-hoovers) is half full, it's disgusting. Going to hoover all my clothes next.Big up to the wanker security guard in Safeway who challenged me for...

John Samways

Hi, thought I'd leave you a message re your family's link with John Samways. Do you have any information regarding where the Samways family at all. Not sure if I can link them into my family. Appreciate it. - Jonathan Samways, Poole, Dorset

RE: John Samways

Hi Jonathan,Our John Samways was born in 1851 in Fareham, Hants his wife was Matilda Grant born c1853 in Winterton Stoke, Wiltshire. Their children were Fanny Alice, Laura, Fred, and Amy. All born in Fareham. Thats all I have on Samways, although I a...

Shepway Festival and Air Show

The air show was fantastic, I've not seen a Harrier Jumpjet before, it was spooky to see it stop dead in the air, fly backwards, turn around and do a little bow to the audience. Also saw Utterly Butterly wing walkers, a Tornado, Spitfires (not just t...

MJ Hibbett @ Winchester Railway

Do Not Forget This One... it's a Saturday night, so no excuse! Railway Inn, Winchester...

Daytripper, one way ticket yeah

No, a return ticket, a one way ticket would suggest a stay of a bit longer than a day. Anyway, been to Folkestone and signed the deed, the solicitor is confident of keeping things on track. Whether or not we'll be completed by next weekend I'm not su...

RE: Daytripper, one way ticket yeah

I am not sure I understand what I am reading here. Something about buying a flat ? You are a first time buyer ? Can you add " translate into Italian or French options (clicking on little flags) to your soapbox page, please. It would make things easie...

Hack your way into the Hollwood dream

You can keep your LA motivational advisors - THIS is the real way to succeed in Lala Land...'An America Online customer service rep illicitly surfs the company's customer database, ferrets out private data on celebrity members and then hunts them dow...

but this is the way of life

loads of bands rip off good bits of the old grates...which is why i dont have an awful lot of time for bands which sound like a slightly insipid version of the beatles/rolling stones/led z etc etcas for londahn village being shit...this is true...i w...

it'll be muddy and shit anyway.

like the football.

(ps. my pagerank is higher than yours.)

Driving the neighbours away

Starting to take this personally now, another flat in our building is now on the market, this one is the same size as ours, also being on the third floor, it should be a mirror image of ours. Nice to see it's a bit more than we paid, but then it does...

It's all fun and larks round our way

Hmm, Folkestone youth sets fire to man, in Dover.

Yeah was away

No computer for days, lordy! popex.com is back now, got a shedload of other stuff to fix though!

Chinese Takeaway

Following IBM's selloff of their PC dept, are they going to buy Apple? Could they afford it?"Instead, an even better and more audacious speculation is that once publicly free of the PC division IBM will either buy, or form a close joint venture with ...

Safeways

we were in Safeways at the weekend (not one in Folkestone) and Clare asked where their organic meat was, and was told they had none, there might be some organic mince in the freezer section...

Who reads these service agreements anyway?

> Dear Paul:> > Posting links in forums and on message boards is technically a violation of the service agreement. You will need to discontinue that practice if you wish to remain in the network.> > Sincerely,> Network QualityBah, guessing this is ab...

Carpet's down, painting is under way

The flat is coming on nicely, so what could be next..?

Looking forward to this weekend's drinking me!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Huge 'star-quake' rocks Milky Way

Cheers, I will walk down that way and have a look

I was just out and about at the weekend taking pictures, I wasn't deliberately looking for it...

There's a high speed rail link on the way

Not due for completion until 2009 though, should knock 40 minutes off the journey time... I'm pretty sure I know which tennant it is who's put the sign up, as they've put the same signs in their front window. There's only 4 flats in the block, don't ...

You know which way to vote!

Pauly it isn't that hard, Vote Lib Dem your Vote will count if Howard loses his seat, what more can a voter ask for!

Have a drive past my house on the way home

See the sign that's up in the front garden, you'll love it...

We'd have to go to the Stoke Newington polling office anyway

Folkestone Cliff Railways

I found a page about the Funicular railway, while looking for pictures of Folkestone on flickr.com......

Why's it always Rik Waller?

In Kent Children in Need - BBC appeal will be broadcast from Medway on Friday 18th November. The county will be awash with fund-raising events to collect cash for the BBC Children in Need appeal.On Friday 18 NovemberIn Medway the Black Lion Leisure C...

Always nice to see a result!

Now let's see some more for my family!

Are you back to offer me a flat to give away in a competition?

Did you press the submit button a bit too early there?

24 ways

Ah this'll do instead of an advent calendar, shame I found it so late...Didn't sleep so well for some reason, not even on our train journey in today. I don't think I was unconsciously worrying about us being on the last disk of the last series of Ang...

Buy Jay Kay's Segway

Jay Kay's Segway. "A few scrapes and marks but is otherwise in good order"......

John Otway

+ Eddie & The Hot Rods & John Otway

Europeans and how we live

Something to do with John Otway and also Steve Hogarth - the same one who took over from Fish in Marillion?

The Tears

plus The Subways. First official gig for Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler's new band, though they went and did a couple of sneaky warmups before this in Oxford and somewhere else. Not that great really....

Elastica

with 60ft Dolls. I spun my car in the snow on the way home.

Dr John

Got in free because of the support, think it was Ben and Jason. Not much copy anyway.

Graham Coxon

Excellent, good to see his Blur bandmates turning out to cheer him on the audience too, Damon was pogoing away like a goodun

Hythe Farmers' Market

Farmers' Market in the hall behind the Light Railway Restaurant, Scanlen's Bridge Road, Hythe. Time: 10:00am to midday (every second and fourth Saturday of the month).

Caberet

Desree, John Otway, Lemontrees, Sean Locke, Uncoordinated Juggler and compere Lee Hurst

Henry Rollins

Some rubbish spoken word thing. He is frightening so we laughed at his jokes anyway.

Atom Seed

My favourite band of the time playing at the club I used to go to every week anyway, not bad... The Pit is now part of a bingo hall.

Where's Wally

We will be giving away Where's Wally hats, having a giant Where's Wally hunt and a colouring competition . Waterstone's (old Town Hall), Folkestone. 10:00-12:00

Folkestone Invicta AWAY at Chester

Iron Maiden

Was on a training course in Hounslow, turned up too late for support band Wolfsbane, and anyway we had no tickets, but got given some by someone outside, I am sure it was Tommy Vance. Apparently we saw Jonathon King there too.

David Devant and his Spirit Wife

I bootlegged this gig, the audio's complete with a trip to the toilet part way through...

The Cure

Some part of the uni anyway, anyone know more?

Gene Loves Jezebel

Some part of the uni anyway

The Comsat Angels

Some part of the uni anyway

John Otway's Big Band

£9 Adv. £10 On Door.

David Devant and his Spirit Wife

Well two of them anyway, perhaps playing as Carfax at Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception.

Elastica

Free gig for XFM, who gave me FIFTY tickets to give away...

Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds - Hot Ticket Package

Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds

Film @ Quarterhouse - A Crazy Heart

The harder the life, the sweeter the song. A faded country music musician (Jeff Bridges) is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life. With a chance for salvation, he begins the long journey to redemption, and along the way discovers just how hard li...

Airtricity League - St. Pats v Galway United

As I See It� - Poetry and Rhyme

If you've ever had your breath taken away by a stunning view or walked through a wood in autumn and felt inspired to put pen to paper, this could be the exhibition for you. "As I See It" is a collection of works by local poet Adrian Williams, who fou...

Orson

POP, from the Americas I think, also I think the singer used to be a Broadway showtunes type

War of The Worlds : Wembley Concert Club, Jason Donavan, Liz McClarnon, Justin Hayward

Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds tickets for 18/12/2010

The Open Air Gallery

I was thinking "don't they know people have jobs to go to?" but then of course a) it's a bank holiday monday, and b) no I don't have a job to go to now anyway!

Reading

My first gig with nme.com, I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them)....

Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds in Birmingham

Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds tickets for 09/12/2010