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They are still the number one ranked local restaurant!

Who is doing all this voting then? I enjoyed it when I went, I think I've only had takeaway there, but also sat for a drink while waiting for it. Here are the current top ten:Savour Aroma (8.59/10)Chambers (8.41/10)Tinto Tapas (8.36/10)The Mayfly (8....
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Free parking at festival for car sharers

Free parking in some overflow car park or other if you have three people in your card it says here. Also a shuttlebus will be taking you to and from Westenhanger and Ashford stations, I hope that's free but I really don't know.I should be going to th...
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Top ten best restaurants in the area

The votes are in, these are the top ten best restaurants in the area as voted by you (so, the ten restaurants with the most loyal net savvy customers and regulars who visit this site then), a few surprises in there:Botolphs Bridge Inn (9.10/10)Bella ...
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Bullet train does London to Ashford in 32 minutes

rail news has the details, that's nice, but when you think about it that's not really all that impressive - the current trains could do it in not much more than that if they didn't stop at all the stations in between. Still, looking forward to it, ho...

Sellindge Music Festival!

Sellindge Music Festival is happening on 7th & 8th June 2008 at Hope Farm, Gibbons Brook, Nr Ashford, Kent, England, TN25 6HH. See you there!�40 for the weekend, so cheaper than most festivals, and it ought to have a proper indie vibe, but the lineup...

looking for suitable venue in Folkestone

Hi,We are looking for suitable venue in Folkestone one of our gigs.We are an 8-piece live band called The Vintage Corporation and we organise our own 60�s and 70�s gigs. We are looking for halls in London and the South East to perform in.Requirement...

Don't you wish you went to school in Ashford

A twelve year old Ashford has been arrested for letting one off in class. Political correctness gone mad? Oh no, didn't I say, it was a pepper gas cannister, not a bottom burp.Ambulances and things were called, parents turned up panicking to find the...

West is best right now too

The wife ideally wants to go to Victoria, but just about anywhere in London is good, and that's good from West. Also the proposed (and I think actually due within the next two years) high speed rail link will be using Canterbury West so that'll shave...

Art exhibition on Hythe Road

LOOK, good stuff, see these pictures at www.ezeetiger.com or in person at The Courtyard Gallery from the 3rd December...That's a great Dave Grohl, unfortunately it's no longer available according to www.ezeetiger.com - wsa it once hung in Chambers co...
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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...

I don't even know why I said it, a bit of Friday afternoon frivolity is all

Some of my best family are vegetarians, and I've been vegan for about fifteen years now, that's why I posted that original thing. You're right though, most people are scum.Got plans for the weekend? I'm out in Trashford tonight with people from work,...

RE: Mayfield Suite / Stour Centre / Gene Loves Jezebel

That's brilliant, thanks, do you remember any more gigs from that period / area?

RE: Mayfield Suite

I remember seeing Gene Loves Jezebel at the Stour Centre in Ashford I think The Mayfield Suite was a room there, posssibly, the dates kind of fit....

Folkestone bullet train trial

A micro-writeup and picture here in the Evening SubStandard on the high speed rail link. Yeah baby, we'll soon be only 63 minutes away from the stinking metropolis.yourshepway.co.uk also has the story here, The site of the Hitachi High Speed Rail dep...

Train news

Hey London tube travellers, Here's a song for you. Only listen to it if you like lots and lots of swearing, and weak b3ta style graphics over a tune you've heard before mind. I'm not really that arsed about the tube strike today as, HEY, I'm well ou...

Ooh lightning strike!

No trains from Folkestone for the forseeable, because of a lighting strike over night, we do get all the action here don't we. They can't put on any replacement busses until after the school run as they're all in use. I'm getting a lift in today so I...

The sister-in-law's waters have just broken

This is a medical term that is related in some way to having a baby apparently. This means we're likely to have a new niece this afternoon, we'll call in to see her on our way to Canterbury for lunch tomorrow, I think she's in Ashford. This new niece...

"Good news, there's a man with a saw now"

A train's fallen across the track somewhere between Folkestone and Ashford, this has messed up Clare's journey in, and might still be there to affect mine... what do I do?

Hotspots created as Londoners flood in

Ashford is one of the most preferred new locations for buying in the UK - but other towns such as Ramsgate, Folkestone and Canterbury are all set to benefit from the influx of affluent newcomers. Ha, Ashford is only preferred by those who've not actu...

Geoff Achison

Saw Geoff do his solo acoustic set at Oranges in Ashford yesterday, 2 July. Awesome as always!

Hot weekend

Weekend was ace wasn't it? We started with a lunchtime pint with work at a nice pub called The Drum, then a few drinks just the wife and me. Saturday we headed to The Whole World Cafe, and what do you know it was actually open this time? We were a bi...

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It's the end of the world.

No, not that end of the world, something a bit more lighthearted. Possibly. In an age where any security camera footage of a crime seems to be inconclusive, or not good enough quality to be of any use, or just not pointing the right way at the right ...

Yep I heard from some other people here who live in Ashford

he lives in a village just this side of Ashford, apparently just a few doors down from Vic Reeves. I could be wrong about Paul O'Grady buying the house across the road from us from Vic Reeves then......

Tour de France

You may have heard it's coming to England, here's the route map. It's taking in Tunbridge Wells, Ashford and Canterbury, but no Folkestone......

The wrong kind of trees on the line

What a great day to start commuting again. Back on the five past midnight train into work this morning (ok, five past seven), and in my semi conscious repose I became more or less aware that the train was at a standstill, somewhere in mid kent. The t...

All information seems to be it will stop at both

The mock up timetable that was distributed showed it stopping at Central, West, Sandling and Ashford, with Folkestone West renamed as "Folkestone Parkway". Not sure who would have a definitive answer though...

Too much

Done far too much since my last posting to remember it all, but here's a go... Thursday was my last proper day at work, though they've asked me to stay on for another week, so that's christmas paid for. That night we were out for the popbitch christm...

Updates

Travel update: twenty minutes late today, eitehr track circuit failure, or track surface failure, I was a bit too asleep to hear it. How can the surface fail? Must have been circuit. Why couldn't it have been another ten mins delay, taking us into re...

I thought things looked funny from the train last night

Looking out of my window I could see lots of lorries queued up in the dark, I thought it was the entrance to the tunnel but wondered why I'd not noticed it before... Seems the M20 was closed last night, Operation Stack came into effect:Motorists were...

Gig guide from this week in 1981!

so it wasn't all big name indie bands playing the Metronome every night as I've been led to believe... here's a fascinating republication of gig listings from 1981, from the good people at www.kentgigs.com. Don't forget my Folkestone gig guide though...