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Portchester weekender

Spent a smashing weekend in Portchester as it was Mum's birthday yesterday. Headed over Friday afternoon on the train, meeting up with Andy on the way in The Golden Lion. Not a great pub but a good evening anyway and some nice pints of HSB and a chat...

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Our actual first day in Key West

I realise that my previous post about our first day in Key West a) didn't contain any info, b) had things from our second day on the map, and c) has slipped down the page and no-one will read it. So here at last is the first part of our journey. Clar...

Free bonus bit of decoration

Got decorators in right now, finally getting our earthquake damage done, and they've done a nice job so far. They just came back for a couple of hours finishing off today, and one of them confessed that he'd broken one of our pictures. "No problem, w...

Mulled wine! And BEER!

This one's mostly for Dean, I know he likes to hear about how hard we're working at work. We're having another one of our fun days tomorrow, one last barbecue to celebrate a big deal working out, and everyone working hard to make it happen. Also, you...

There was me worried about embarrassing myself...

We have a couple of vacancies on the programming team at work, all the applicants have been given a PHP test to do, and some of the scores had been a bit weak, so the bosses wondered if the test was too hard, so they gave it to all the existing staff...

Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)

Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu...

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job

No posts for a few days, I had something to say but wanted to wait until I got an official confirmation and things. Yes I'm back in the land of the permanently employed, just arranged some final details today and I start at Holiday Extras on Monday! ...

Fun night out

I can only just face up to writing down my fun night out on Monday, where I went for popbitch drinks, at The Coach and Horses, Soho. Well, one of them. All was going swimmingly, drinks kept turning up at the table for me, and I kept drinking them. I ...

Maidstone: GOOD

We went to Maidstone, and it was good. Fifty minute journey on the train to get there, with a change at Ashford, but worth going to. We had lunch in Pizza Express opposite Hazlitt Theatre, though there's quite a lot of other choice. Would be nice to ...

Oh dear what's happened to the style then?

Been playing with PhpGedView while I had some time to play with PHP (which might help me with work) and genealogy things(which probably won't). It's "skinnable", but only sort of, it needs some hacking to integrate it in this site, and in the process...
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My last things

My last day at this job started with my last delayed train on the way in to this job, fifteen minutes late, though I hardly noticed as I slept quite well on the way in. I suffered the grimness of the last blocked train toilet on this commute too, ble...

Get it over with...

Football was disappointing, but probably where we deserved to get to. Knocked out by Manchester United though, who'd have thought it. The rest of the weekend was fabulous, here we go.Saturday had some friends visiting, so we headed out for a GREAT lu...
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Ticket to Rye

we are going to Rye on Saturday, for an afternoon / evening, a look round, drinks, dinner and that... Will make a nice change, and we're going by train, so can relax (ie get boozed up). On the way back because of the way the trains work out we either...

Chops!

Started the weekend with a super rarity, drinks in Farringdon. Been trying to meet up with a couple of the Fareham boys who are commuters too and work in the area, and this week no-one had a good excuse not to do it, so it's all on - To The Eagle. It...

And two eyes made out of, er, sprouts

Us in the snow today in the in-laws garden, Clare took the picture that's why she's missing... We really did have an amazing amount of snow here in Folkestone, more than I've seen in years. Four or five inches fell overnight, on top of whatever fell ...

A day of doing my head in

Have completely failed to install a thing called HTMLDoc for work, cannot make it not core dump on this machine, so now I'm off looking for other ways to make PDFs with perl. It's making my brane hurt.Was just doing a survey on someone else's blog an...

Thanks for that brief but useful comment...

If anyone out there can offer any more info along these lines about any of the venues here, that'll really help with the map; accomodation, booze, real ale, children welcome, dartboard, dj, food, garden, jukebox, live music, pool table, vegetarian fo...

Blee, spew, etc

Had a wild boozing session for one of the brothers-in-law's birthday yesterday (have I pluralised that right?), and am feeling crap today. We didn't make it as far as the pub, but stayed at our flat, no doubt upsetting the neighbours, drinking many b...

Clubbing in the week

Oof, not feeling too clever today, went to the popbitch party yesterday at The Player in Soho (ooh, google maps has new features). Went for a couple of drinks in The Blue Posts right across the road before it too. That's the kind of thing I miss abou...

Not a very relaxing weekend then

Friday we had long lost flatmate Emma visiting, and we played darts and drank booze - don't know if it was beginners luck, or if she's secretly been practising, but she was FAR TOO GOOD! Saturday the plan was an all day pub crawl for Dean's birthday,...

Monterey

Just setting up a place holder here where I will post the next part of my holiday honeymoon writeup... on leaving San Francisco we went to Monterey, before heading to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.First we had to get out of San Francisco, which meant...

So, one week as a married man

Damn, do you think they make these but not in leather? I think I need one.It's got built in massagers and a fridge and a phone, as well as being a regular comfy recliner... You can get it at www.drinkstuff.com, I should see if they have an affilliate...

My last Friday, Saturday and Sunday as a single man

I feel I have messed up a bit. My last weekend as a single man was spent partly shopping and mostly sat at home watching DVDs, how sad. Still, it was good. Friday we stayed in for some reason, we were planning to do one or other of our last remaining...

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"...

Pub golf

As part of my round up of the weekend, as I am reminded different bits of it at different times, here is the order of drinking of the pub golf in Exeter on Saturday... we played some real golf first, some pitch and putt anyway, and I thought I did av...

A day of successful interweb shopping

Finally got my remaining wedding chore out of the way, bought some BOOZE online, hope that works out OK... Also got one of Clare's christmas presents, not for next year, from last year which I had trouble getting and then kept forgetting. Anyway now ...

RE: Customs and Excise raid Folkestone Harbour

seemed a bit heavy handed just for cigs or booze, there must have been a good dozen or so C&E guys - as far as we could tell the first 3 jumped the guy from behind and got him on the ground in an instant so they must have been expecting some resistan...

What do you reckon, fags? Booze? Or dodgy DVDs?

Sounds like it was a Speakeasy!

So Les, did you sneak booze in then..?I took a couple of pictures on Grace Hill the other day, either of these where Tofts moved to after it left BRW?www.clarkeology.com/img/crop/img_2005_03_19_IMG_1838.JPGwww.clarkeology.com/img/crop/img_2005_03_19_...

Please drive by carefully in our village

One of the very few things I'll miss about not commuting into work on the 243 bus any more is the graffiti. There are some big works by Banksy and others that you get a fine view of from the Kingsland Road. A reallly simple one just said Please drive...

93 Feet East

BANG Magazine launch party, free booze!

Goldsmiths College

A great gig, just round the corner from where I was living. Cheap booze and accompanying art exhibition.