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Sandbanks Restaurant, The Pavilion, Wear Bay Road - Sat 23rd Aug

I haven't written one of these reviews for a while and, to be honest, I wondered whether I ever would again. There are only so many times you can be bothered to write something about crap food served by people who don't give a damn about good food o...

RE: Vanished businesses

Feltonfleet moved to Cobham, Surrey after moving from Folkestone and pupils were evacuated during the war to Perrott Hill in Crewkerne, Somerset. After the war, the school moved back to the existing site in Surrey and is very much thriving now as a ...

Tipping etiquette

Had the day off today a day working jolly hard at home, as our new fridge freezer was being delivered. I shouldn't joke about it, the working from home I mean, but it's a running routine between Clare and myself, she works at home once a week usually...

Has anyone seen Clare?

And I assumed she just headed off to Barcelona as planned! Someone's got her! Can you read that phone number?I'm posting a lot more this weekend. Can you tell I am bored? I've even done some cleaning and some DIY, and for TWO walks around town....

Just too late for the weekly mailout (again) Folkestone Fringe

From Folkestone Fringe:at georges house gallery:the king and I, private view friday1st august, 7pm30 years after his death, elvis presley still has a firm hold on the collective imagination and this still continues to grow as younger people discover ...

New google walking directions (needs some work)

120 miles on foot or two miles by road, hmm. I think they put these deliberate mistakes in there just to get people talking.Talking of google, www.cuil.com is launched, they've been spidering this site for a while, it's a new search site started by s...

RE: F WINDEBANK

I am looking for Alicia Carames Windibank. She is a distant cousin. We are both related to Camacho's born in Cuba and Europe. I live in Miami since 1961. The address I have for her is74 The Lane, Blackheath Park, London SE3 9 SL England. Can someo...

Refunds on BA and Virgin flights to the USA

Get your refunds here! IF YOU BOUGHT A TICKET ON BRITISH AIRWAYS OR VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS IN THE U.S. OR IN THE U.K. BETWEEN 11 AUGUST 2004 AND 23 MARCH 2006, YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO A PARTIAL REFUND OF THE FUEL SURCHARGE.We've joined in on this, ou...

Maybe the PHP 4 to 5 will go more smoothly than I thought...

If all has gone according to plan, www.claremahon.com should now be serving up pages using PHP5, while www.clarkeology.com and www.folkestonegerald.com are still on PHP4. Pages like this Harry Clarke page or wiki style searches like this are using PH...

Prepare for php meltdown!

I'm about to flip the version of PHP the website uses from 4 to 5, so I expect some areas of the site (including the pub list and all of the search pages) to just come to a halt. Should have done this before now, but I really need to do some php5 stu...

The George in Rye July newsletter

We've been rather quiet on the newsletter front lately, having been nominated for UK Newcomer of the Year in the CATEY Awards, the Oscars of the Restaurant and Hotel world (sadly, the ceremony was not in LA). This award has previously been won by the...

It was DA BOMB, I hardly panicked at all

Is there one near you? Let's go, I have a free weekend when Clare is in Barcelona at the beginning of August.

Simple Simon's: GONE!

Simple Simon's has reopened as "The Parrot". Still very similar, less independent beers on the bar and more Youngs, as that's who owns it now. Had a brace of pints there yesterday afternoon and it was very nice. They now sell bottles of beer at the b...
Rated 6.28/10 on Folkestone Gerald

If my own pictures are too dangerous and controversial for you

Have a look at someone else's pictures of Folkestone. Looks to me they did all of the Triennial things that we did in just the same order, but the differences here are (I think) they visited Folkestone especially for this (so The Triennial is working...

Bonekickers

Did you see Bonekickers on TV last night? I will watch some crap, but even I had to turn it off, it was so bad! I am still tempted to catch up on what I turned off on iplayer later, just to reassure myself that it was just about the worst thing ever....

I bought a thing

This is what I bought at the boot fair yesterday, but was too traumatised to write about because of squished finger:It's a valet like this one, but a bit nicer I think. It looks older than it is and I've no idea what wood it's made out of, it's been ...

Did Sheep on Drugs support Gary Numan in Folkestone in 1996

I've heard this mentioned before, it's making sense now, from this blog:they made all previous supports seem like geniuses in comparison (and I include Sheep on Drugs at Folkestone Pavilion in 1996)So something happened that night to get them kicked ...

Rated 4.69/10 on Folkestone Gerald

LONE STAR COMEDY CLUB � FRIDAY 27TH JUNE 2008 AT 7.30

Following a triumphant show on 31st May The Lone Star Comedy Club returns to the Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe Garrsion in Cheriton. The line up for the new show will be EARL OKIN, JAMES SHERWOOD, compere MATT PRICE and a newcomer.Earl ...
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...

Rated 4.69/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Do not recycle from last night's Dio show

Foo Fighters tour rider, quite amusing. I didn't even know there were nine vegans.

events at the Hook and hatchet

Can we add some events at the hook and hatchet5 June Acoustic Open Mic with Ben Jones6 June Most excellent covers duo, Marc Antony.11 June Run VT18 June Irish Night with the Hot Rats19 June Americana Dance Night with Happy Trails2...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

I played at Mick's Flamenco in June July or august 1967 !!

An email from Brian:I played at Mick's Flamenco in June July or august 1967 !!Does anyone know of any posters/handbills/archive recordsThe band was called the Honey Band and we did a lot of Eddie Floyd / Bobby Bland / Jackie Wilson / Wilson Pickett ...

Rated 0.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Book online for Lone Star Comedy Club now

Visit their website and you can book tickets online for the forthcoming "comeback show", featuring Mitch Benn, et al....
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Some optimistic estimates in this online auction I feel

These all sound a bit high to me, found an auction of rock memorabilia:Soundproofing from Abbey Road �850+, signed KISS album, �3-400. Madonna platinum album �500+, these things are so common, our old office was stuffed with them. Guess if you have a...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

RE: Folkestone double death plunge smash horror tragedy!

I Am from Folkestone but live in Dublin at the moment and I heard friday morning about what had happened - and have been searching ever since in the internet to try and find out who it was - in case I know him - and you`rs is the only mention.I think...

there are loads of sites where you can make your own t-shirt

upload an image, or probably even better just put the text in and choose the font. I see them advertised on www.popbitch.com/board.html for some reason, but if you search for t-shirt I bet you'll find loads....

Are you sure Hazel didn't register in both your names?

I wouldn't think the BBC would spam out invitations for something like this. We both registered (in our own names) though I didn't go for the competition aspect of it, so I won't get some researcher from Radio One seeing if I'm fun enough (and young ...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

RE: wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicely

Hi PaulI came across this site as I was searching how to make my new WG111v3 usb adaptor work under mandriva 2008 (I'll try it on my ubuntu machine later) - that has ndiswrapper installed and, like yours, didn't work. Your posting gave me the clue as...

Glastonbury pictures

Thinking about Glastonbury, Mum asked at the weekend if we had any pictures of us there, bearing in mind we may never go again. And I thought LAWKS, no I don't! I found a few luckily, but they're rubbish, andn none that make it look like we're having...

Do you mean Roger De Haan?

Nice points though. I don't remember the Queens Hotel or the Pavillion, but I'm aware lovely old buildings have been lost.

I'm actually quite keen on the Burstin.

Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Main (our calendar)

Lanterns

Theatre Royal Haymarket

Charity comedy thing, cool as, lots of names present, including Ian McKellen. Search the blog, I must have written this one up......

Astoria

With Starsailor and Ryan Adams and I think Remy Zero. A Warchild benefit night, I quite literally have the t-shirt for this one mate....
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Yo Below

Popbitch A-Z

Sound Republic

Free gig, recorded for XFM. Beset by tech problems, I think Bernard kicked the barrier down in frustration.