2010-03-13GMT07:57:37What's a good cocktail?I have Chartreuse, Jack Daniels, gin, bacardi, Travarica, amaretto, and vodka. I don't drink spirits, but I'm thinking of emptying our drinks cabinet in case we move soon. We have accepted an offer on the flat, so it will surely be soon, these things... 2010-02-10GMT07:22:09Surprised at how much snow is aroundA good couple of inches of really nice snow on the ground here, everything looks lovely. It luckily didn't cause any problems with the trains but everyone was leaving work early because of concerns about the roads. I was home in half an hour door to ... 2010-01-27GMT11:42:16RE: Jurassic (car) ParkI'm not sure I get it, it doesn't encouraged me to use airport car parking...2010-01-26GMT05:07:12Jurassic (car) ParkThis is a good video:See here...... 2010-01-24GMT10:50:19Great weekend, dreadful last leg of journey!Very good flying visit to mum and dad's, ace to see everyone again, shame it has to be such a brief trip each time. No time to catch up with friends this time, but Clare and I went out for a later dinner at Ask, and it was very nice.Harry has been a ... 2010-01-19GMT08:56:14Bonus day off!Well not really a bonus day off, I will probably end up dipping into next year's holiday allocation for this, but I got car trouble.I knew there was something up with the car Sunday, screeching noise from the brakes, hopefully just the brake pads. Bo... 2010-01-18GMT02:04:47Horrible noise coming from my brakesCar booked in tomorrow, hope that's not too expensive. Sounds like something's dragging along under the car when I'm at low speed and use the brakes. I have checked though, there's not a bike or a trolley or an old lady stuck under the car or anythin... 2010-01-11GMT01:57:38Nice weekend, if a bit chillySnow, lots of snow, lots and lots of snow. Had to go out in it a couple of times, Harry's water babies was snowed off, so first time out was to do some shopping on Saturday. 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My great great great grandfather had a daughter Caroline Clarke... 2009-06-26BST09:33:49WINDEBANK ernestRe: <a class="wiki" rel="tag" href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com/windebank">WINDEBANK</a>trying to trace windebanks Bently hants,have other info re windebank back to Thomas Reade Magna Charter<br /><br />2009-05-30BST05:32:44"a restaurant near Folkestone has had to close part of its car park because of the caterpillars"Says here in the Mirror, but what restaurant? I was thinking, the only restaurant I know in Folkestone that's high falutin' enough to have its own car park is Paul's isn't it? But this does say near Folkestone, not in Folkestone... so where then, any... 2009-05-18BST06:23:49Damn dirty carnivoresFox got into my nephews' chicken and duck enclosure and killed three birds, bah. 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Internet radio and everything, I'm going to buy more of these and put them all round the house!... 2009-03-24GMT07:38:33Have sold 5 of my xbox gamesFor a grand total of about a tenner I think. I kept the postage prices to a bare minimum, which means it's really not worth my while even writing out these envelopes, bah. Would not consider my first foray into selling on ebay a success. Will reconsi... 2009-03-09GMT09:55:29Molto buono ma um po troppo caroBACK from our roam! To Rome! Very nice, thank you. Got lots of pictures and some video, going to try and geotag it all up before I upload it though.<br /><br />Lots of work to do, no time to report further yet.2009-02-21GMT04:21:55Of course it's not taxed!Didn't realise until I got home that our new car is not taxed at all, how naieve am I? Called the guy at the place I bought it from "oh no, got sixty cars here I can't keep them all taxed". So not driving it just yet, left it off road on Jim's drive ... 2009-02-19GMT02:05:02Weaow! Weaow! 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