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Nov27
I'd heard of this before, but didn't know the reason why some councils are refusing to recycle shredded paper, that's pretty poor.
Commercial director John Collis said: "The small pieces of paper tend to get trapped in the conveyor belts and cause a fire hazard so if it gets into the machine it gets rejected by the equipment"
"We are driven by our marketplace and it does not want shredded paper"
Perhaps they should not be driven by their market place but by some kind of environmental responsibility, they're not really sending out the right message at the moment.
Nice weekend, went too fast though. I had a quiet night in on my own on Friday night, as Clare was out in London with friends. My weekend nearly started disastrously as I tripped over something in the dark while concentrating on untangling my headphones - luckily my body broke my fall though. I spent the rest of the weekend aching, I really hit the ground like a sack of potatoes. Glad I didn't drop my phone or anything. Saturday, also spent alone as the wife and the rest of her family were off at Classical Spectacular at the Albert Hall, which I didn't fancy at all. Spent most of the day trying to get TV things working on my IPAQ, and got there in the end, so today for the journey home I have an episode of Dexter. I'll soon be caught up on all my crap American TV! Also did some tweaking of styles on http://www.folkestonegerald.com, using http://jquery.com to hide / display bits. More work to do.
Saturday night, on the return of the family from their flag waving extravaganza, we went to pubs. First stop The Park Inn, near the station, bit rough but OK - they have a real ale on now, they never did on previous visits. Then on to Chambers, we never go there these days. It was OK, but some of the party wanted to move from beer on to wine, so we headed to La Vue, and that was a bit rubbish. Full of a very young looking crowd for some reason. There was a general disappointment in the air regarding the pubs of Folkestone, there aren't many that are good at all, and when we are in a crowd there's no way we're going to find somewhere that will please everyone, so we ended up pleasing no-one. Things were that bad that we even talked about selling up and moving to Dover! We must have had more to drink than I thought...
Also from http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk, an article about the popularity of pub quizzes, and a free quiz for you to do. I remember that Mastermind champ from school, not my year though. We've decided not to go to the quiz this week, going to give some other people a chance every other week...
More Habitat furniture on Ebay, a table and benches that we don't have room for, though we'd quite like some chairs like that. Interestingly this person has refused an offer of £550 for the lot, but they have no reserve and it's currently at £200... I'm sure it'll reach a fair price.
Work is going OK, thanks, two more weeks to go here.
Yesterday we mostly cooked curry and chilli for the freezer for the week, and then watched Pirates of the Caribbean 2. It's a bit rubbish really. Great style and that, but the story's a bit of a mess, and the pace of it is a bit weird. It piled right into the action, I guess that's part of it being part two of a trilogy. Too much emphasis on the supernatural element and special effects too, and not enough good honest pirating, ARRR!!!
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Nov12
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Was just trying to find the furniture we bought at the weekend, and all the top results are me, how strange. It's down to Habitat's website being quite bad, the whole flash interface makes it hard to index, so my pages are coming up top. ANYWAY, here's that dressing table we got off ebay:
Doesn't really look much there, but we're really pleased with it. We got about a third off buying it second hand, this stuff seems to keep it's value. Annoying now, but handy if we need to sell any of it. Next purchase, more \"Bergerac\" range oak furniture from John Lewis, not likely to see much of that come up cheap though unfortunately. Wish I could be a reseller for it, I'm top google result there too.
Spent the day in Tunbridge Wells, and had my second mushroom and truffle pizza in Pizza Express, even nicer this time. Tunbridge Wells was great, lots of individual shops, looking forward to going back there again. We found some more oak called Antix which kind of matches the John Lewis stuff, it's French again, maybe we should go direct to France and look for some furniture...
It's not all been about obsessive hoarding of furnishings this weekend though, we spent the evening crawling round the pubs of Folkestone, starting off with an overdue return to an old friend Chambers. Wouldn't you know it, it was house night again, so we left after a quick comple of pints. They must save their indie nights for the week, when it would be quieter, but it is annoying. Next stop was going to be The British Lion, but we got sidetracked by The Electric Beatles at Mustang's. Ropey sound quality, but good effort in terms of costume and that. After that on to The Ship Inn in the harbour, and a truly terrible singing keyboardist, then to The Mariner and a quite good Irish band, then last orders in The Guildhall and I can't remember what kind of music the duo there were playing for some reason.
Quiet day today.
Sorry if the site is flickering a bit, it's some JQuery javascript I'm trying out, going to do some more fancy dynamics on here soon.
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