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Folkestone Triennial

Don't forget the art works are still on display, at least until September. The launch weekend events may be over, but everything's still there for you to see and enjoy. See my brief review of the day with pictures and map....

Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

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...

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...

Squirrel plants super walnut tree

A lovely gardening story, not that much squirrel content actually. Now onto the weekend review!We went to Rye, and it is nice. We mooched around some very very old buildings and shops and things, and had a look inside Henry James' house, and did all ...

Weekend review

I did a massive amount of driving at the weekend, borrowed a car and went to Bluewater. We hit some insane rain on the M20 and had to pull over until we could see again. It feels like the sort of place I ought to go "oh no, we had to go to Bluewater"...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Well, great weekend in London with all the family, though it got off to a bit of a damp start for me... Left work at 5, picked up some beers and headed to our hotel to meet Clare, and got caught in the FIERCEST downpour ever! Frantically tried to dry...

Damn I had a really good headline in mind for this

SO, went to Ireland at the weekend, and it was very nice! Here will follow my little review of where we went and what we did, and things I recommend and things I don't.Friday morning we had a wedding meeting at Lympne Castle, TOO EARLY, and too many ...

Bad Curry

Went to Eastern Nights on Saturday evening, at the top of the Old High Street for a curry, as it had been recommended. Normally in Folkestone we'd go to The New Delhi, and it's always good, but OH NO, I had to speak up and insist we try something new...
Rated 1.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Let it snow let it snow let it snow

GREAT weekend, which I will come back to as it's time to do some work. Bit cold, but very nice to see Clare's bro who was visiting from the Americas. He and his wife and their little dog live and work in Miami, and don't get to visit that often so we...

Weekend update

About time for a weekend update, all the things I didn't have time to write yesterday, if I can remember it all.I got in the bragging about the quiz, but just to remind you we were the "Uptown Architects", as we couldn't think of a funny name, and th...

Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Another restaurant we can't go back to

Quite a positive and constructive weekend, not as much pubbing as usual. Got a new washing machine delivered, (thankyou very much Dean and Dom for carrying it up the stairs) and done some washing in it. Also got the fireplace sorted, got the quote fo...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Bonus day!

Hmm, not a bonus earning type of day, but rather an extra day to the weekend... worked out that if we stay over in Folkestone on Sunday night too, I can still get up at normal time in the morning, use my return train ticket without paying any excess,...

Dungeness

Apart from Chambers Beer Festival and Kapetan Michales (reviewed and to be reviewed on Folkestone RestauRANTS, this weekend I also enjoyed a walk from Folkestone to Hythe via Sandgate, mostly along the sea front, there's something you don't get in St...

So glad to be back to work

Fantastic long weekend, was not feeling at all happy to be heading back to London last night. A few links to warm things up before the full weekend review, first via www.popdex.com, get yourself an RSS feed of any ebay search at www.ebaylistings.net ...

Pictures of you

No, actually pictures of The Cure when they played the Barfly last weekend. Read my Cure review and post more comments, please... I particuarly like . Don't put these up anywhere else without permission. ...

Folkestone restaurant disappointment

Another great weekend on Folkestone, a bit too boozy though. I woke up on a floor early on Saturday morning not feeling my best, but luckily managed to avoid the strange vomiting bug that brought everyone else down.Timothy's Wine Bar was a major disa...

Rated 6.28/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Darkness review

How good can one weekend get, seeing The Cure, The Pet Shop Boys and finally The Darkness all in the hottest venue in town, all Music Passport charity shows too...Fantastic show, wish you all could have been there, it was hot but not too hot, it was...

Rated 4.71/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Folkestone, you have embarrassed yourself

Putting on a varied bill, is it a good thing or not? I was quite entertained by pop acts being thrown onto the Reading Bill, seeing Kevin Rowland in a neglige, was a particular treat. I've even seen the Manic Street Preachers, so I've seen some bad c...

No more 106

In an attempt to make this less boring, I'll not be mentioning the 106 bus for at least a week. I was going to post up a picture of how someone had hacksawed away a part of the luggage rack on a train, but I think that would only have reinforced the ...

Rated 4.69/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Weekend review

Went to International Student House on Friday for a gig, and to a good pub called The Albany, then to Winchester on Saturday to see MJ Hibbet, had a FOUR HOUR journey back from there because of the rail replacement bus service being caught up behind ...

Weekend review

Smashing weekend in Folkestone, they now have a hexagonal pool table in ...

Doctor Doctor

Had a great weekend, Chambers let me down a bit though, or I let it down, it was too smokey in there, so I was sat there being a bit quiet with streaming eyes, and feeling guilty for getting everyone else to go there. No-one else seemed to mind, or n...

Rated 8.41/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Was it HOT at the weekend or WHAT?

Went to the Red Bull Flug Tag thing in Hyde Park at the weekend, was that a victim of it's own success or WHAT? Haven't read any reviews of it yet, I'd imagine they'll all rave about it as it looked like it was GREAT - if you were in the press enclos...

Glastonbury 2003

http://www.clarkeology.com/img/thumb/img_2003_07_07_Glastonbury_IMG0197.JPG Edith Bowman and friendsBack from Glastonbury, glad I didn't hang around for Moby and The Manics, tempting though it was, we were sat in front of the telly eating curry befor...

Tasks

BACK in the office today for a meeting, so preparing for that... DANN rain overnight meant water was flowing in the bedroom window again. SMASHING barbecue at the weekend, now have to decide if we can find the time to go to on holiday with the same c...

Reading Present (and correct)

PopEx is off to Reading Festival for the weekend - not for in depth reporting and reviewing, we'll leave that up to Virtual Festivals , who are covering all the weekend's activities from the Carling Weekend to Creamfields - your faithful editor will ...