Nice day for it

Already counting on a premium bonds win on Monday

I like a website that does one thing, and does it well

Who has time for blogging?

Parkrun 201

Is that storm Floris then?

Parkrun 197

Lovely day out yesterday

I spoke too soon

Sandgate and Folkestone are carnage in this weather

It was hot today

I walked to Sandgate and back again

Oh and now I think I've lost my glasses

Good times Saturday

I am quite pinning my hopes on good Glastonbury weather

We also went to Nepali Kitchen

Busy start to the morning

Clare went to Nepali Kitchen last night

Bracing out

I had my own train fun today

Aspendos meal was very good

Beautiful day

And activity at Mimosa

Activity at Annapurna

Traffic has gone crazy on this site over the weekend

Super long weekend - The final day (sort of)

Something new is opening in Sandgate

Active day Sunday too

A weekend of overeating

They came, they saw, they rocked @ Portsmouth Guildhall 2025

Sprout aloo baguette was good

Sprout sandwiches for tea

Can an LED face mask really transform your skin?

Trevor Francis tracksuits from a mush in Shepherds Bush @ Barfly 2025

Double eating out

Is Febrewery back on track..?

Stewart Lee vs The Man Wulf was brilliant

A nice day for going out for lunch

Too cold to go out for a walk

Did someone flip a car in Sandgate?

In other local news

Sunday megalash

That flat sold for only £90k

Looks like a bargain flat for sale down the road

Parkrun 173

Back to work

How much better off am I following this budget?

It's not grim up North

There are posters up advertising the new Nepalese restaurant

Busy day of work

Lovely weekend

Just heard The Providence is closed @ The Providence Inn 2024

Work, hectic

Really good Thai meal

AC/DC weekender part four: Bruges @ festivalpark stenehei 2024

Busy day at work

Habitat Radius Tallboy is BACK

New Relic and GraphQL

Recovery day from Saturday

Awesome day out with friends

Clare is now an ex-cop

Two lovely massive meals in a row

We walked the Folkestone ridge loop

Peaceful Sunday

Absolute bin-food bonanza today

Enjoyed The Fall Guy

New blinds, slight return

Prime pubbing time...

Totally got away with being on call

Step count graph is back to normal scale again

Lido Bon Vino is gone

Nice relaxing day today

Slightly disappointing day in Dover

New bakery in Sandgate

Febrewery 29/29

Hythe news

Febrewery 27/25

Febrewery 26/24

Febrewery 23/22

Febrewery 22/18

Febrewery 19/17

Febrewery 18/16

Febrewery 16/13

We went to Deal for the day

Febrewery 13/10

Febrewery 12/10

Febrewery 10/3

Febrewery 9/2

Still fascinated with what is going on at Bar Vasa

Runuary day 29

Went in a new cafe

Runuary day 27

Runuary day 26

Runuary day 15

Runuary day 13

Runuary day 12

Are the flats in Bar Vasa being downgraded?

More home automation

Runuary day six

Christmas Eve pub

Too busy

Nearly quadrupling our energy usage

Lovely lazy weekend

Walmer Castle christmas lights - cancelled

Sandgate Hotel yesterday a success

Horrible weather for a parkrun

Horrific accident

The final nativity was brilliant

Not done badly with the dadmin tasks

Friday night out in Folkestone

Sandgate update

Sandgate update

Proper windy out there

Christmas presents started arriving today...

Out for dinner to the Bouverie Tap

Nice day mooching around Folkestone

An actual monsoon out there

Fresh start with the freezer

Heavy weather again

Breeze is picking up out there, but not actually bad weather yet

Shifting my Top Of The Pops chart

Will Docker start doing real ale? @ Docker. Taphouse 2023

Recipe time

It's dark @ Portsmouth Pyramids 2023

I have voluntarily written some Typescript in my own time

Inn Doors Reunion

Too busy weekend

The guts have been completely ripped out of The Ship

No parkrun today

T2 did not walk home on his own

Thought we could sneak in a pre-dinner pint

Good day to cross the channel

Walking along the beach last night I heard a strange buzzing...

Lovely cottage in Sandgate... wait how much?

Weather update for Thursdays big walk

Splendid long weekend

They are doing takeaway pizza from the Sandgate Hotel @ Sandgate Hotel 2023

Hot busy day

Free energy day is here

Hot parkrun

Weather even more awesome today @ Camden Underworld 2023

Holiday 2023 - Center Parcs day five???

Energy use update for archive

Have not even got to the Center Parcs bit yet

Weather gone off the boil

Busy but productive day

Just about made the day work yesterday @ Brixton Academy 2023

New Docker bar is very popular @ Docker. Taphouse 2023

Building up to it slowly

There is a VW sort-of-camper for sale in Sandgate

have I posted more about beer than I have about fitness this week?

A free trip to Dover Castle @ Dover Castle 2023

The seagull is ok

Happy Birthday Mum

This was my happy place

Happy fathers day

Busy week

Another hectic day

Dinner at the Radnor Arms @ The Radnor Arms 2023

Pub news

Investment property

Back garden about half done

Two day Sunday

London friday done

Febrewery 28/28 @ The Providence Inn 2023

Febrewery 27/25 @ Three Mariners 2023

Febrewery 25/19

Febrewery 24/18

Febrewery 23/17

Febrewery 22/16

Great pirate themed escape room @ The Pullman 2023

February 17/16

Febrewery 10/5

Febrewery 8/4

Febrewery 4/3

Runuary doneuary

Runuary day twenty-eight

Runuary day twenty-five

Runuary day thirteen

I wished I head an heat pump tumble dryer, and it came true

Insane busy at work but the end is in sight

Oh no, I can't go to London tomorrow

London day

A tale of two pubs

Booked the final parts of my grand Eurotour

Extreme heat day one

Sunday afternoon off

A fast parkrun in this heat

Is the Sandgate Hotel opening again?

A cheeky half

Lovely weekend with Mum and Dad here

Longest recorded run ever?

Thirty years ago today

Easter lunch at Lucky Chip @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2022

That was your longest walk on Strava

Happy mothers day

Fast fibre broadband is getting closer

Italia, eccoci arrivati

No nukes yet

Runuary day sixteen

Action packed weekend

Things I like today

Lovely day for a run

Sandgate updates (upgates?)

DIY project of the day

Runuary day thirty-one at last!

Runuary day thirty

Runuary day twenty-nine

Runuary day twenty-three

Runuary day nine

Runuary day five

Runuary day 3

Good day of smart-homing

Running with a pace setter today went as well as expected

Chilli detector

Hythe Hops beer is available already

Just a test post to test image compression

Glorious day today

Friday night pub crawl

New pub adventure mostly worked @ White Hart 2020

A seal, a dolphin, and a lot of water

Good warranty from Dyson and Brabantia

Two days of tennis

Happy birthday

Very strange prize day

10k being applauded all the way

Tuesday epic walk and a new book

Great socially distanced walk and beer

Hot run

Schools go back today, but not ours

BBC are pushing Couch To 5k today

I got popex into production

Someone is trying to hack my new popbitch thing

Waiting for my weekly social event

Coronavirus hit a bit closer to home

First full day of furlough

Swimming and school still on, but all the pubs are going to die

Cinema day

Yes people are stockpiling @ Camden Underworld 2020

Great long weekend, and Febrewery completed

Febrewery day nineteen

Febrewery day eighteen

London pay day profit share weekend part 2

London pay day profit share weekender!

Febrewery day fourteen valentines special

Febrewery day thirteen

Back in the office

Moved about a bit more today

Dry-vegan-runuary day thirty

Dry-vegan-runuary day twenty-nine

Dry-vegan-runuary day twenty-two

Dry-vegan-runuary day twenty

Dry-vegan-runuary day nineteen

Dry-vegan-runuary day seventeen

Dry-vegan-runuary day sixteen

Is there a Venice parkrun?

Dry-vegan-runuary day thirteen

Dry-vegan-runuary day twelve

Everything was conspiring against this morning's run

Vegan-dry-runuary day 9 slight return

Vegan-dry-runuary day 9

New Years Eve at the Inn Doors

Richard Osman's world cup of the decade

Eat this much

No running all week

Party success

Pictures of the sea washing over the sea walls at Sandgate

Just about survived Clare being away

The Walking Dead series one done

Huge exercise Friday, with a mini pub crawl

My first 10k run

Running the long way to the pub

Took today's parkrun too seriously

It is very quiet

Friday night at the Nailbox

Out tonight but possibly not the Inn Doors

Gah damn you fitbit

Surprise art show

Good park run, relaxing weekend

I hope this is not a cold

Incredible sky on the way to the Inn Doors

And another lovely day off

Sick boy nearly made it to school

Slower park run today

The paint more or less worked out ok

Gravitrax trampoline returned

Updated my record collection with images now

Four new runners from work at the Park Run

Folkestone parkrun results for event

Work was OK in the end

Cold, dark, slow

Running for the third day in a row

Lesser run this morning

Running again, but gently

Hammock fail

Couch to 5k week nine day two

No running today

Hythe Food Festival 2018

Absolutely awesome time at the conference

Another day another run

Look out the Seabrook petrol station cashpoint now charges

Up early this morning

Fun Sunday after the football

Sunny windy wavy day today

Crazy weather yesterday

Tracey-anne pryke @ The Dog House 2017

Got caught in a downpour at lunch

Can I carry over some of yesterday's steps to today? @ Chambers 2017

Phone disaster action

Star studded Sandgate @ Docker. Taphouse 2017

Lovely meal at Dr Legumes @ Orchard Lane Coffee House 2017

Hot day again today

Proper Summer day here

Quite a productive Saturday

Tried to cycle to Sandgate

DIY DIM (done it myself)

Saturday we went back to Comemos again @ Comemos Deli Cafe 2017

Caffe Nero @ Caffe Nero 2017

Not home in time to catch gymnastics today

Didn't we already know Vasa was becoming a Costa? @ Costa 2017

So lots of weekend activity

Day off!

Number one son got run over yesterday - apart from that it was a good day

Very windy at Sandgate Festival

Our house is right by Sandgate train station

Did have lunch in Follies @ Follies 2016

My lie in tomorrow

Did I say I cycled to and from the pub both times this weekend?

Splendid afternoon on Folkestone Harbour Arm @ Docker. Taphouse 2015

So that explains why the Providence is now closed @ The Providence Inn 2015

Out tonight, to Escondido @ Escondido 2015

Surprised The Ship has a bad FSA rating @ Ship Inn 2014

Segwaying went OK

Oh noes they are closing the A259 (Seabrook Road)

Supper club, in Folkestone? @ Follies 2014

Not really a beer festival at The Ship @ Ship Inn 2014

Anniversary night out part 1 @ Ship Inn 2014

Follow up to a previous rare night out @ Sandgate Hotel 2014

Archery club! @ Folkestone School for Girls 2014

Yet another bank holiday weekend with no DIY

Another bank holiday weekend with no DIY

Unplugged weekend

Oh and wasn't it a lovely day today?

Reinstating Folkestone East

It is going building crazy in Seabrook / Sandgate right now

Party at Kidz Planet was good

We will miss Sky this week

Save Princes Parade

Nice weekend, kind of lazy weekend

Things that happened to me this week in Sainsbury's car park

It's time for the annual sacrifice of plants @ The Duke of Cumberland 2013

Lovey sunny day today, I hope it has not resulted in a tragedy

Vasa is reopening again!

A weekend of landmarks

Went to the Sandgate Hotel

Busy in Canterbury today

A peaceful day

10 things you didn't know about Loaf, Sandgate @ Loaf 2012

Pictures of the Rolling Stones in Folkestone @ Odeon Bar 2012

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16664

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16660

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16657

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16656

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16642 @ The Sixty Six 2012

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16641

Weather was good today for Sandgate Sea Festival @ Ship Inn 2012

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16625 @ The Sixty Six 2012

Cafe Del Mar opens in Sandgate on the bank holiday weekend @ Cafe Del Mar 2012

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16608

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16592

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RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16588 @ The Sixty Six 2012

RE: The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate - 16576

The Sixty Six opens on Tuesday 24th July @ The Sixty Six 2012

The 66 - new restaurant in Sandgate @ The Sixty Six 2012

New sea sports facility on Folkestone seafront

Been for a walk

Ferocious weather

Lovely bank holiday weekend @ Ship Inn 2011

Sandgate Sea Festival this bank holiday weekend @ Ship Inn 2011

My celebrity life, and my celebrity friends and neighbours

Interesting rumour about Noel Gallagher! @ The True Briton 2011

RE: Has The Harbour been renamed The True Brit? - 14155

Not back in London today

Haircut

Work christmas party kind of spoiled by snow @ Tiger Inn 2010

BAR VASA - OPEN AS EVER, UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT @ Costa 2010

Is that Vasa or Vassa? Are they the same place? @ Costa 2010

RE: Bar Vasa closing... again? - 13673

Taken a break from painting

Do you wanna live in Sandgate, Sandgate, Sandgate..?

Gate 28 has a pool table now @ Gate 28 2010

The Hub cycle shop in Sandgate is ace @ The Hub cycle shop 2010

Another absolute roaster today

Farmers market this Saturday in Sandgate @ Chichester Memorial Hall 2010

Speaking of celebrities in Folkestone @ The Hermitage 2010

Pavement pounders walks for May, June, July and August

DAMN our buyer has pulled out

Bergerac oak trunk

sandgate in people, prose and poems

More Tales From The Tap Room

Has Sandgate Bar Vasa closed? @ Costa 2010

Better than I had heard @ Escondido 2009

Art exhibition at Cooks @ Cristus Gallery 2009

Comedy at Escondido @ Escondido 2009

New comedy clubs to open in Dover and Cranbrook @ Escondido 2009

Due Day plus ELEVEN

Tracey Ann Pryke exhibition in Sandgate @ Cristus Gallery 2009

missing gig info @ Sandgate Hotel 2009

Gate 28 looking FRIGHTENING! @ Gate 28 2009

Escondido (Sandgate) CLOSED next week

I recommend Escondido in Sandgate @ Escondido 2009

Two Dine for 10 (two courses plus glass of wine). @ Sandgate Hotel 2009

Went back to Escondido on Saturday @ Escondido 2009

Off to buy a car

Had a great valentines day

Shopping centre for sale, one careful owner

RE: Lambert & Weston - 11909

The Sandgate Hotel sold again @ Sandgate Hotel 2008

RE: Folkestone Computers has closed then - 11841

Escondido Sandgate still closed, but free cocktails at Escondido Deal @ Escondido 2008

Folkestone Literary Festival Brochure - OUT NOW!

AF&RM CAMRA says Gate 28 is reopening as a pizza restaurant @ Gate 28 2008

Escondido Sandgate / Folkestone closed until further notice :-( @ Escondido 2008

RE: sandgate dolphin on youtube don t watch - 11445

sandgate dolphin on youtube don t watch

KML

Swing Afternoon review @ Sandgate Hotel 2008

House hunt

leas cliff hall 1974 @ Leas Cliff Hall 2008

Folkestone camera clcub forthcoming events

Good weekend, rubbish episode of Lost

You had to outdo us didn't you, rest of the country?

There are definitely glass and can recycling points at the supermarkets

Folkestone recycling

RE: A whole load of hits suddenly for Sandgate Hotel / Gordon Ramsay searches... - 10831

A whole load of hits suddenly for Sandgate Hotel / Gordon Ramsay searches... @ Sandgate Hotel 2008

Festive Fun @ Chambers 2007

Lower Deck Music Club this Wednesday @ Sandgate Hotel 2007

Dave (Davina) the dolphin serious injury :-(

I'm the walking dude (and so's my wife)

Sadly disappointed with La Tavernetta @ La Tavernetta 2007

RE: Dolphins in Sandgate! - 10381

RE: Dolphins in Sandgate! - 10318

Sandgate Dolphin on YouTube: DON'T WATCH IT

Folkestone celeb spotting

Kings of quiz @ Castle Hotel 2007

It's the end of the world.

Folkestone on TV @ Ship Inn 2007

Working! @ Ship Inn 2007

Did you know Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson were staying in Sandgate?

I thought things looked funny from the train last night

Gig guide from this week in 1981!

Dolphin Filming @ Ship Inn 2006

History in my day @ British Lion 2006

Yesterday's news

Maidstone: GOOD

RE: Paul's - 9599 @ Tinto Tapas 2006

Leave Dave the dolphin alone!

RE: Dolphins in Sandgate! - 9156

Costa Coffee coming to Folkestone @ Costa 2006

RE: The Sandgate Hotel, - 8909

My last things

Nice long weekend in Sandgate, Folkestone, Hythe and Portchester @ Terracotta 2006

RE: Dolphins in Sandgate! - 8725

Get it over with... @ Wagamama 2006

Sofa not so good

RE: Dolphins in Sandgate! - 8476

Dolphins in Sandgate! @ Ship Inn 2006

Weekend, in reverse order @ Escondido 2006

All mine all mine @ Escondido 2006

What am I, a scone?

Paul's @ Tipsy Pigeon 2006

As one store closes... @ Starbucks 2006

No go zone

best place to live in folkestone

Folkestone Gerald update @ Sandgate Hotel 2006

Lovely day today @ Sandgate Hotel 2006

Didn't Sandgate + Folkestone look nice on TV last night? @ Sandgate Hotel 2006

Sandgate Hotel is on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares tonight @ Sandgate Hotel 2006

No more videos for a while

Yeah it says Sandgate in the piece though

Guardian Unlimited | Weekend | Let's move to ... Folkestone, Kent

And a clearer view

Creative Players do Robin Hood @ Westbrook House Preparetory School 2006

Cheers for chipping in @ Earl of Clarendon 2006

Tres productive weekend

Bless!

We're BACK!

Weekend review

Sorry to leave such a gap

Mayfield Suite @ Mayfield Suite 2005

It's on there don't fret @ Gate 28 2005

Sandgate

Property of the week

David J Payne Carpets

Revenge of the wage-slave

Sandgate

The first rule about job club @ Earl of Clarendon 2005

Clarendon Inn @ Earl of Clarendon 2005

Splish Splash!

Return of the jeteye

La Bougie also up for sale @ Escondido 2004

Paul's @ Tipsy Pigeon 2004

DayPop

Dungeness @ Kapetan Michales 2004

Trains, tubes, and flats. @ Gate 28 2004

Gate 28 @ Gate 28 2004

Bar 98 @ The Daniel Defoe 2004

Earls Avenue

Fell Reynolds

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