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RE: It looks like West is best for London, long term

well i think it depends on whereabouts in london you want to end up? personally I would think west is best - as that gives you more options for london bridge, waterloo and charing cross. the thing is, i would try to live fairly near the station you ...

Passengers to be weighed before getting on trains

From This Is London:Train operator Southeastern is linking the suspension of its carriages to a computer system that works out the weight of passengers getting on at each station. Other rail firms are installing laser beams across carriage doors to c...

Magic darts

Turned on the final of the Lakeside World Championship last night while we were having tea (Sunday, so chilli), and nearly turned it right off again as it looked like a bit of an embarrassing white washing, Martin Adams bein six sets to nill up again...

Train times did not work out well at all

The work is good though, I'm quite getting into Drupal, the content management system and so much more. It's quite good to extend, though not using traditional object oriented techniques, it's a bit odd. Train times did not work out at all, the offic...

There's a nice run of pubs right by Whitehall

I'll look up the names of them, there's four in a row that we went in one day, when we were staying in London because of Clare's work, they're on the road running straight down from Trafalgar Square I think... I'll have to look them up. Last cool pla...
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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 ...

Yesterday's news

BAH, wrote a huge posting, to compensate for several days of blog neglect, and Firefox only done went and crashed on me didn't it... that's literally several paragraphs of finely thought out prose that are now lost forever. I need to write an "autosa...

Folkestone on popbitch

Not real popbitch (ie the popbitch newsletter), just something someone just posted on the board. I repeat it here for your delectation and delight:Meanwhile, on the last train out of Charing Cross on Saturday night...Your actual Cheryl Baker out of B...

RE: Weird traininess thing going on

Hi There,I just spied your web log today after looking around for something to show me how I can participate in Roger de Haan's excellent plans for Folkestone. I lived in Hythe for 10 years before moving back to London and have just bought and moved...

McKenzie Crook

Spotted last night on The Strand, mad wispy terrorist facial hair and a beany hat pulled down almost enough to cover the bags under his eyes. Sucking far too hard and too long on a roll up as he was walking, possibly just so as to keep his hand over ...

It's hard to tell

Might not be a change of trains, might be like it is now coming from Charing Cross to Folkestone (as I do every day), there's a long wait at Ashford for a connecting service, though no actual changing or splitting of the train.

Evacuate

Not sure if there was some kind of emergency today at Charing Cross, there was a log jam of commuters trying to get out of one open exit - if it was an emergency evacuation it was a very slow one. The other exit is possibly closed for a refit of a sh...

Pig farm to open in Fareham

One for my homies here Fareham nightclub Prague junction to be turned into a pig farm. Well possibly. The council keep rejecting plans to shut the club down and redevelop it as flats and offices as the land is earmark for a light rapid transit system...

School's out for, ooh, a long time now

Going through some old photos now I have a scanner, here's my infant school lineup:[[http://static.flickr.com/59/166633373_32afcd8353.jpg] Portchester Northern Infants School Class 5]]Google have released a web version of Picasa, their photo organis...

Portentous

Strange air about the world today - it's a fabulous day here in London, but the light and atmosphere feel a bit WEIRD. Could be that I've headed into town half an hour later than normal, or an actual armageddon could be on the way. Came into Cannon S...

Boing Boing: Yahoo: if you use our ads, you have to block non-US visitors

Thanks to Pid for this odd piece about yahoo ads. Yahoo have their own "publisher network", like Google's adsense, bloggers can earn money by putting some ad space on their site. BUT, Yahoo say you must notdisplay all or part of the Ad Unit to any us...

Stag wins!

Oof, tiring weekend! Started badly Friday with super late trains. Actually, this went on all last week, our trains were late every day, Friday was worst as first I was meant to be meeting chums, who cancelled. Then I was travelling home alone as Clar...

Ooh yeah I got google chat today

Used the chat client before, and had it integrated into Trillian for a while, but now the powers at google corp have deigned to embed it in my gmail page, as announced here. They're rolling it out slowly so a few more people blog about it each day, c...

Jemma Walker

Yeah made you look, as you don't recognise the name. She was Sasha in Eastenders, though to be fair you're still going to have to follow that link to know who I mean. I saw her outside Charing Cross Station yesterday evening, on her mobile phone.Ooh,...

Tim Healey

Dennis from Auf Wiedersehen Pet, spotted on The Strand near Charing Cross Station one evening last week (about 5.30). Think he was trying to hail a taxi.

I like Shed Boat Shed

This was my favourite of the Turner Prize Entries, it really stood out, a deserved winner I reckon. I clearly didn't like it enough to blog about it, but I swear I picked it out at the beginning. Also Antony and the Johnsons, I tipped them to win the...

Signal failure?

Signal problems? Some such excuse for our train being late in today, ah well. Charing Cross was CRAWLING with police too, I wonder if there'd been a tip off about something. Apart from that London feels a bit quieter today, maybe it's the fog.Hmm, lo...

Unexpectedly worked from home yesterday, it was odd (but nice) to be in the flat in the day and hear the neighbours going about their business. Had to go out to try and get some food, BUT, Safeway in Folkestone is closed for a few days, while it rebr...

Ace weekend

Took a road trip to Fareham to visit the family this weekend, borrowing Clare's dad's car. No problems getting there, though it's not a drive I've done myself before, up the M20, round the M25 and then down the A3. The A3 near the Devil's Punchbowl w...

Commuting news

Just for the sake of making a new post, as I've not had time to write up my holiday honeymoon yet, and I want to push those pirate pictures down the page a bit... Our commute starts five minutes earlier now, the trains no long start at Folkestone, th...

This week's transport rubbishness

This week's bad thing was her train from Charing Cross being cancelled last night, so she was 40 mins late home. Poor flower! My journey was fine, except that I was concerned that I was on the wrong train when she didn't meet me at Ashford. I even sp...

Doesn't that last post look a bit weak now?

We're allowed to leave work, but we're advised not to - our journey is two hours at the best of times, we're going to have to try and make a move soon. With Clare being on the other side of town to me, and no transport within zone one, we're going to...

drummer - razorlight

was in the royal george pub off charing cross road on sun 29th may drinking with chums. i'm guessing he was off to see the bravery who were headlining at the astoria.

Folkestone train times

Folkestone trains are a bit messed up for the whole summer, possibly the next six months. To travel at about the same time, and not have to change trains at Ashford or anything we have to get trains to / from Cannon Street instead of Charing Cross......

Douglas Hurd

My train was held up yesterday by about 15 minutes, and his wasn't. Makes you think doesn't it.