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Ooh took a whacking from russian spammers there

Think my disk space allowance filled up which stopped some things working which allowed a load of spam through, which killed all my websites... Turned anonymous comments of for a bit while it settles down.

Woo, we took the Ship quiz again!

The wife and I got 30/30 in this week's Ship Inn quiz, beat that!

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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...

Nice weekend, quiet weekend

Nice weekend. Changed our Friday night outgoing plans and had a quiet one in. Saturday went to a 92nd birthday tea for Clare's gran over in Tenterden, home for a brief siesta, and then out to The Guildhall with visiting family and friends. Took a bri...
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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...

Famous people who have lived in Folkestone

I'm looking for help online with a puzzle that a friend at work has set, it relates to a famous grave and plaque in Folkestone somewhere. No joy yet, but I did find this PDF of Folkestone Town Crier (the newsletter of the town council). It has a cros...

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...

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RE: Folkestone suicide tragedy

I can confirm that Rosie had just come from an interview in which her return to work part-time was discussed positively. She had been treated for depression and everything seemed to be going well. It is so sad that, just when life had begun to look r...

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...

RE: Pirate museum

Ah har, me land lubber - so when you going? Is it now? Are you there already? I sat in the bar at Miami airpot for about 5.5 hours, sat on a stool at the bar drinking merrily. Does that count as seeing Miami? Took me 30 hours to get home that da...

RE: "Fundamentalist" for the Grand National

I took up the free �25 bet - not through PB - and managed to pick the winner, and net �100. It wasn't through any skill, I just picked one with a cool name that was touted as having a good chance. It's a shame you didn't win, how else are you going t...

RE: The New Inn, Etchinghill

I absolutely agree with Chris about the New Inn. My girlfriend and I have only been there on a Sunday, but they do a great Sunday lunch. The service is friendly, the atmosphere is relaxed and the food is very good. It makes a pleasant change to see a...

hi hopes dashed!!

On 8th March my girlfriend and I decided to visit Cafe Belge in Canterbury with another couple who had highly recommended the restaurant to us. I must say that none of the four of us have ever received a service as rude and discourteous as we receive...

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RE: Ricky Gervais XFM radio show MP3s

The earliest available recording is indeed from the 10th November 2001 although this has never been on the XFM website. The earliest show they've ever made available was from 12th January 2002.The Ricky Gervais Show started in September 2001, the fir...

Quiet few days

Had a lovely weekend, disastrous in terms of house hunting, but great in every other ways. We didn't get to see any houses this weekend, there don't seem to be any on the market really that fit our requirements. We saw a couple of new houses online t...

Weekend! Curry! Spazzy twitches! Everything!

Great weekend, bailed out of work slightly early and got the train to Mum and Dad's, for a nice long relaxing weekend. As previously mentioned, Clare was in London drinking and dancing with her friends, and definitely not lighting fires, and I was he...

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Yes I got it, keep looking on the torrents

It took FOREVER.It's not that great quality and probably not as funny as you remember, but as well as everyone else it does have Howard in it, which I didn't remember (well I didn't know who he was at the time)....

Apple Airbook

There's a new ultra portable mac to be announced todday I think, some speculation here on Wired, see how everyone has to comment without reading the article? (Cue replies here, missing the point of this post, if there was a point, and there were any ...

Google Maps hacks

I'm sure you've checked out Saturday's walk around Canterbury by now, I've merged in the photos that I took along the way now too. Involved a bit of a hack really, Flickr offers a geocoded feed of my photos, and will let me narrow that down to say ju...

map test

Map loading here, where I went with my GPS on 28/12/2007, the last 1000 locations anyway... var map; $( function () { if ( GBrowserIsCompatible()) { $("div.map").before( "Map loading please wait... fetching GPS coordinates first..." ); $("p#m...

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...
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Free bonus bit of decoration

Got decorators in right now, finally getting our earthquake damage done, and they've done a nice job so far. They just came back for a couple of hours finishing off today, and one of them confessed that he'd broken one of our pictures. "No problem, w...

sunday dinner

My wife and I called into the Bull Inn for sunday lunch, we eat out ever weekend and this was the first time we had been into the Bull Inn,and it will be the last.We asked the waitress what vegetables came with the roast and was told, carrots, peas a...
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I had a thought

About the Why Park Sensibly note, it was a bit rude to have been left just for where Jen parked her car, I suspect now it was left on another car that really was parked over the drive, and someone took it off and moved it onto her car. Well, you neve...

Particularly fulsome weekend, with curries.

Splendid weekend, a bit different this time, starting off with a half day on Friday. I headed to Winchester to meet up with some friends, and really needed the extra time to make the most of the night. Clare stayed home watching Children in Need afte...

Stuff I want!

This bookcase and this sideboard, good starting prices on ebay, sure to go up to about 3/4 of their shop price though anyway, and how do I get them from Preston? Do I organise a courier? What's that cost? Collecting them myself would be too dangerous...

RE: 10 myths about vegans

Bah, more self-righteous chat from the Vegans."Oh, look at us, we are all kind to the animals as well as healthy and fashionable really � and some famous and fashionable people are Vegans too you know. We are so misunderstood". As far as I'm concerne...

The Pretty Things in Folkestone

Some pictures I've just been sent, of The Pretty Things when they played at Micks' Flamenco Bar (now better known as Pipers) in 1967:That last photo was taken outside George Robey's the tobacconist a couple of doors down from the club.The next two we...

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Splendid weekended

Great weekend, went to visit the folks and we got down in plenty of time to go to Portsmouth Dockyard and see the Mary Rose and the Victory. The Mary Rose was more interesting than I thought, it's not just a big lump of driftwood, but the Victory was...
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What rugby?

You forgot to bless the boot didn't you... A good game anyway, and we did well to get to the final. Perhaps an iffy decision on that disallowed try, but perhaps not.A good day yesterday too, just for a change we had lunch in Wagamama in Canterbury, b...

The Garage

I think this is the last time the keyboardist took her top off on stage.