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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 ...

Lost: bit annoying

Watched the new episode, hope you enjoy it if you watch it tonight. I'm convinced the story's still being made up as it goes along, and that there won't be any actual answers by the end of the show. Some new ideas introduced, I'll probably stick with...

Beer festival on today in Dover

Mmmm, beer festival, at the town hall, starts today but is also on tomorrow, hope there's some beer left.The Easter Ales Festival is back in Chambers in a few weeks too, over the, uh, Easter weekend. See you there....

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Beer and rugby

Got a good weekend lined up I think, not going to Canterbury this week, though I will be in a Canterbury frame of mind as I'm seeing a mortgage advisor Saturday morning to see what we can do. Then, it's Dover beer festival, either going there at lunc...
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Fullsome weekender

Well I say full, full of pubs really. Friday night we stayed in, so as to have more energy for going out on Saturday. We had a trip to Canterbury in the day (and you'll never guess where we had lunch), no actual christmas shopping, but we went in a c...

Canterbury beer festival this weekend

And I am in Canterbury anyway! Unfortunately it's a little way out of the town otherwise I'd spend a few hours there while waiting for Clare to shop.ALL TICKETS FOR THE FRIDAY EVENING SESSION HAVE NOW BEEN SOLD. PLEASE DO NOT TURN UP AT THE FESTIVAL ...

Lost and beer

Just got me the new episode of Lost and from the quick preview I've had of it looks like it's going to be about Sawyer. The last few episodes have been absolutely fantastic, even the Nikki and Paolo episode "Expose" which I was expecting to be awful....

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The rest of the weekend

Far too much eating and drinking the rest of the weekend too, it's almost good to be back at work... No, it's not, that's ridiculous, it was a great weekend. We did return to the beer festival again, and then went home and watched Taxi (not this one)...

Tiring weekender...

Knackered today, just had a great dinner at The Jackdaw (though with a slight service hiccup) and now we're spending the afternoon chilling before heading back to Chambers for more beer festival action.Started the weekend sedately enough, stayed in a...

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I dream of dreaming

This morning on the train into London, while I was sleeping I dreamt I was on THE VERY SAME TRAIN! I was with some other people though, not the wife, and I dreamt there was an announcement, we'd missed our slot for coming into London and now we'd hav...

Beer festival for the weekend!

Chambers hosts it's Easter Ales festival this weekend, running from Thursday to Monday. Twelve guest ales, plus four guest ciders, and I'm sure entertainment on each day.

Get in there early, before the beer runs out, but save some for me.

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Ghost town

Work is going to be DESERTED today, as everyone's off at Reading festival except me, so it's nice and peaceful. I'll be using the time to try and catch up on some CD's, I don't like to play stuff in the office usually, as I don't like it when other p...

Beer festival

Is there one this weekend? Beer in the evening has nothing, and Chambers seems to be quite in with them at the moment, mentioning their URL (instead of the uber loyal www.folkestonegerald.com), so anyone know anything? Been working hard all week and ...

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Glastonbury Festival hit by rain

"A few unlucky ones just arriving at the site this morning - some unprepared for the rain in flip-flops and shorts - faced the prospect of pitching their tents in the storm"... now what sort of fool would do that? I must put those old pictures online...

Chambers Easter Ales Festival

Chambers in assocation with The Ship Inn present their Easter Ales festival this weekend! And I'm going to miss it, DOH! It's on from Thursday 24th - Monday 28th March, and the runners and riders are as follows... Your four regular ales are Adnams So...

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Bank holiday WEEKENDER!

Got my first network alert popup today, as I left the wlan bit turned on on the Pocket PC... 243 moving too fast to investigate, though the network name was the full street address so it won't be hard to find again...Popped in to Chambers beer fest F...

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Shanel's Brasserie

Delighted to see that a phoenix has risen from the flames of Kapetan Michales, and it's not a kentucky fried one either. Popped into Sharnel's Brasserie on Saturday for some much needed sustenance on a bank holiday beer festival weekend. We were warm...

The best day of the week?

According to the weather forecast this will be the best day of the week. And it's horrible, that's why I'm messing about on the computer and not getting ready to go to our new office in Farringdon... Actually with it being closer and me not having a ...

Chambers Beer Festival

There's another beer festival at Chambers over the bank holiday weekend, ace! The last one in May was a roaring success, don't miss out. Plenty of cider on tap too, get your drinking trousers ready... live bands on each night including Sick Note Blue...

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We're moving!

At last, the company has confirmed that we're moving offices to Farringdon, in 3 weeks. Looking forward to this, I'm a bit bored of Primrose Hill now. And it looks like we'll get a paid day off on moving day, bonus!GREAT weekend, tiring though. Raced...

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...

Chambers Beer Festival

The Chambers "Easter Ales" Beer Festival was a raging success, from the first day to the last. It seems to have taken everyone concerned slightly by surprise, but according to the landlord it will be "at least" an annual event, so here's to the next ...

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Folkestone beer festival

Beer festival was ACE!

Done nearly half of all the beers on sale.

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Chambers Beer Festival

Folkestone's finest boozatorium, The Chambers is holding an "Easter Ales Festival" over the Easter weekend (Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th April). They're planning to offer eight guest real ales, four guest ciders, and live jazz and blues every evening.T...

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Daytripper, one way ticket yeah

No, a return ticket, a one way ticket would suggest a stay of a bit longer than a day. Anyway, been to Folkestone and signed the deed, the solicitor is confident of keeping things on track. Whether or not we'll be completed by next weekend I'm not su...

Insane in the Chain

I muchly enjoyed Goldie Lookin' Chain at Metro last night, here are some pictures:Got some video footage too, but it's a bit crap, I was a bit drunk...I can sort of understand Metro having no proper beer on, it's all cans in there, but I can't believ...

Fig Cafe RIP

AARGH, can't believe it, got down to Folkestone only to find the Fig Cafe has been closed! We're not sure if it's permanent or just for refitting of its host the Metropole. Could well imagine it going out of business, seemed a bit niche, but we loved...

Finley Quaye

Sunday 22 July 2001 - he walked past the pub where I was drinking BEER. Makes a change from seeing him in Edinburgh during the festival.

Win AC/DC tickets

The Club Beer boys have a couple of tickets to AC/DC's big summer show in June to give away...As well as the mighty 'DC you get to see Megadeth, Queens of the Stoneage, Tool, and more...Check out www.clubbeer.co.uk for more details...Good work beer b...