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House hunt

Two houses today in Canterbury, different parts of town, but with things in common. For starters, both too expensive really at 250k each. If the market really is tumbling we might be able to make a cheeky offer on just about anything we see now thoug...

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...

Been quiet for a few days

No I've not been out on the larry-large every day over christmas, been a bit under the weather actually, though that's not what's kept me off the computer. When I'm not at work and Clare's home too I never get to sit in front of the computer, she's p...
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If a picture paints a thousand words...

Does this video clip of us in Belgium this weekend make anything I have to say on the subject completely redundant?See, Mum, Dad, Clare and me on a humungous big wheel, part of the Plaisers d'Hiver festival type affair that was going in Brussels this...

York (being the fourth part of my holiday)

York is great, a lot like Canterbury, but seemingly with more pubs. Our hotel was the birth place of Guy Fawkes, and had sloping floors and four poster beds, proper historic. It practically butts up to the cathedral, not sure you can tell from my pho...

Local Heroes and Hevy Music

Local Heroes @ The Leas Cliff HallFriday 16th NovemberTickets �10Doors at 7:00pm After a long hiatus, Folkestone�s Leas Cliff Hall will be hosting a local music night on Friday 16th November, but this time it�s different. The event, Local Heroes, wil...

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Didn't go to Canterbury all weekend!

Imagine that... Overslept Sunday morning, so we went to Escondido for lunch instead. The chef got my food wrong again, so for the second time in a row mine came free, that's nice. Apparently Escondido weren't quite recovered from a disaster the previ...

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Hot weekend

Had a good week, lots going on at work, including the aforementioned rowing trip and picnic meeting in Hythe, very nice, then also a Harry Potter themed barbecue at work (I'm still plodding through the audiobook, don't tell me how it ends), and a pub...

RE: Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)

I'm glad you enjoyed Ed, I think it's a great place to live. I forgot you were into your real ales, you should have gone to The Guildford Arms - that's my Dad's favourite for real ale. Mary King's Close is very touristy, you should have done one of t...

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...

Good weekend

Quick trip to Mum and Dad's on Friday, with an afternoon off work thrown in, to be there for a fabulous family barbecue for Dad's birthday - I knew it was his 60th really. Just a flying visit, but still really good, nice to see so many people in one ...

I used to see Allan about once a year

out and about. We'd always say hello, but I expect towards the end he had no idea who I was.I did the Folkestone to Londond commute for about eighteen months, it was rubbish, took about two hours including faffing about at either end, but it did give...

Whole World Cafe: GOOD

Saturday we headed to The Whole World Cafe, and what do you know it was actually open this time? We were a bit previous on our other two visits. It's a nice place, not sure they're quite up to speed yet, but salads and coffee and juice were good, and...

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Snow today

Snow overnight, enough to cancel all trains heading out of Folkestone, so Clare had to work from home today. Apart from watching TV and shopping, I seem to have spent most of the day cooking a black bean and sweet potato chilli. And it's not very goo...

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! ...

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...

Belated weekend roundup

Weekend start sort of badly, and then sort of worse, and then actually got going really very well indeed. Train home hit some kind of delay, caused by some kind of delay on another train. That's as much detail as we've come to expect in the non expla...

Monday morning roundup

I'd heard of this before, but didn't know the reason why some councils are refusing to recycle shredded paper, that's pretty poor.Commercial director John Collis said: "The small pieces of paper tend to get trapped in the conveyor belts and cause a f...

Good weekend

Rain seemed to play quite a part... Friday, raced out of work not quite in time to go to the Andrew Davies talk, part of the literary festival, but in good time to get some chips, and eat them in the rain on my way to The Grand Hotel where the talk ...

Spamalot

Spamalot was quite good, not brilliant, best bit for me was seeing Tim Curry in the lead role. It's all the same story / jokes as the film.Went to The Three Greyhounds before the show, very good, small but nice old pub style pub. Four real ales on an...

Quiet night in Folkestone

Saturday we went on a bit of tour of Folkestone, just to remind us and our visitor Emma of some of the less salubrious joints in town. We were originally going to head into Hythe and get a curry, but Emma already had a dinner lined up, so decided to ...

The simple pleasures of the unemployed

As expected yesterday, we can't have a water meter, we're on the second floor and they can't get access to our stopcock from the outside. We should be taken off emergency rip-off water rates now anyway, which will save a bit of money. Also, in Sainsb...

Where did summer go?

Crap weather today, I am almost jealous of everyone we know who is off on holiday right now... took a windy bus ride into Canterbury today for a lovely yasai chilli men at Wagamama, and a bit of shopping and pubbing. Got hugely delayed on the way hom...

Earl Brownes set menu

Not a review, but something I've done before... we're off to Earl Brownes in Hythe for a post wedding feast next month, and as we're such a huge crowd they've asked us to pick in advance from a set menu. So, here is that set menu, to give you an impr...
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Weekend, in reverse order

Hmm, from an email from Doctor Neil:Then went to look at the boat, the boat is OK, though the water is still a bit too shallow, hopefully my Rain Dancing will fix thatNice dancing skills mate, it's pleuting it down like nobody's business in London an...

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Firefox extension of the day

Loving this, instant html validation in firefox, an extension that lets you know if the page you're on has errors / warnings, see:What the extension should look like in situ...This page has none! That's how it should be and that's what that little W3...

All mine all mine

James Herbertesque sort of weather today, very foggy at home, and all the way into London... makes things seem a bit quieter, I wonder if the fog is really absorbing sound...Great weekend, tiring though, I could do with being asleep right now. After ...

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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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