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Apr12
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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 though I suppose. Also, they were both currently let, and we'd be seeing them with the tenants in situ. Also, both sets of tenants were entirely unprepared for our visits; the first were hastily tidying up, the place was a proper studenty sprawl with bottles and things scattered everywhere, and also what appeared to be a rolled up ten dollar bill left on a mirror, probably some sort of crazy art installation. It was a nice interesting characterful house in a nice old part of town, three big bedrooms, two cellar rooms and two knocked through reception rooms with just the raw brickwork of the chimney left standing in the middle of the property. It needed decorating, but the thing that makes it no good for us is the kitchen, which was too small. If it wasn't at the top of our budget we could have thought about rearranging things, maybe moving the kitchen or extending a bit, but we'd have no money left over for that.
Property two within the city walls is in the ideal location for us, right by The Dolphin. The tenants this time were even less prepared for our visit, they didn't want to let the agent in, they heard nothing from their landlord. We offered to come back next week but in the end they were unhappy but convinced, and the viewing continued. Surprisingly large three bedroom property, all of the downstairs was one big open plan space including the kitchen. I liked this, but it might need some thought. What would it be like living in a house where you can't close the kitchen off from the living room? At a squeeze we might even fit the pool table in this one, if we lived all around it. No garden, and being where it is no parking, but it's on a quiet street so stopping outside for deliveries and removals wouldn't be a problem. There are residents parking spaces right next door, but we know from previous enquiries that there's a waiting list for a permit. There is a small patio out the back, with the river adjacent. It's very shallow at this point, not even really deep enough for the ducks and moorhens to swim in, and is not quite as lovely as it sounds, but I liked it. Clare is less convinced, and at this credit crunching stage in the national economy I don't think we're going to be taking any risks on a place we don't absolutely love. I wouldn't mind seeing this one again though.
Some quick stats, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of todays properties were being offloaded by professional landlords. Possibly in a hurry. If that doesn't tell you the property market is plummetting I don't know what will.
Lunch was at Boho, my first time of eating there and it was lovely, I recommend it. Tea was at Escondido for the first time in ages. Nice, but as with the last several visits they got my order wrong. They recovered quickly, so unfortunately we had no reason to demand a discount. I think that place is a bit expensive now really, but it was full again, I guess there is very little competition in the area. As it was Jen's birthday, we went on for drinks in The Sandgate Hotel for a change, nice but didn't feel all that welcoming. We made our excuses and left before closing time, but the party continued back at Dean's house until 4am apparently.
Nice day today, got our shopping out of the way early so are having a lazy afternoon. Midsomer Murders and chilli later, GREAT!
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Apr20
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The Fighting Cocks will be demolish Islington's "Red Eye"
The Fighting Cocks will be doing their best to demolish Islington's "Red Eye" venue (Copenhagen St, N1) tonight - it's finally closing it's doors after five years, as it's being converted into flats. The 'Cocks are playing the closing party tonight, phone 0207 837 1514 for more details.
There's a site here: www.redeye-venue.demon.co.uk/main.htm
The 'Cocks also playing the launch part for "No More Rock & Roll", on May 4th. It's a compilation album that they feature on, alongside Atari Teenage Riot and other "Digital Hardcore" type bands... see www.londontribe.com for more details...
Pauly :: 2001 :: Comment / reply
Aug16
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Back in work today, the wedding was amazing. I have several days to catch up on here, but if you want to cut right to the chase, here's a picture of us:
More wedding pictures here... The long weekend started on Wednesday, which I already kind of covered. We went out drinking at The Clifton, stayed right till closing, then got people back to ours for more drinks. We stayed up playing pool and being loud until 4am or so, I am dreading bumping into any of our neighbours. You only have one wedding weekend though so I hope they'll understand. Guests of honour were one of my new brothers-in-law Kevin and his wife Krishna, visiting especially from Miami. Krishna pointed out that if you google for her only this site comes up. And now it will again! Krishna sensibly went home at closing time, but Kev joined us in feeling like crap the next day...
Thursday my family and friends started to arrive, and we had a few light chores like collecting the suits from Canterbury and doing a dry run of the wedding ceremony in Ashford. Leaving Clare at her mum and dad's looking much like this:
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everyone else came to Chambers for food and drinks. Not sure all the Fareham chums were that enamoured with it, six of them went for a proper sit down dinner at The New Delhi. Much boozing and a really good night out, it's rare to get family and friends together like that. Not too late to bed.
Up early Friday with not a lot to do before the wedding, ate a good vege fry up in Sandgate, and played pool at home with best man Andy. He got me to the castle on time, so then I just had to wait for Clare... She kept me standing at (whatever the civil equivalent of) the altar for fifteen minutes I think. She looked amazing, as you can see in the photo above (the one in the white dress, not the blue curlers), so from then on it's a bit of a blur. Everything went amazingly fast, the ceremony, our sprint back down the aisle (to "Don't Stop Me Now"), the meal, even the speeches went fast. We had an Irish band and a DJ, so there was something for everyone, and before you know it the night was over. I don't feel I've said enough about the wedding, but I'm a bit lost for words at how good it was. It's particularly ace to be at a bit party and realise you know everyone. We are lucky to have so many great family and friends who could make it. I wish we could have had more there, to have invited everyone we knew, but for one the venue wouldn't hold it, and for another we didn't really get time to speak to everyone we did know. Everyone, if you're out there, we had a wild time, thankyou very much.
We stayed in an amazing room at the Hythe Imperial, with a TV in the jacuzzi and everything.
Saturday we didn't get time to catch up with many friends before they had to head home, but we had a great meal for the family at Portofino and then more drinks at The Clifton. How long have we been going there, without knowing they have a POOL TABLE? There's a games room under the main bar, with pool and table tennis. We got late drinks and sat in the other lounge as most of the family were residents there.
Sunday it started to feel like things were over, my folks and my Nan and my sister and family all left, though we did have an evening curry to look forward to. Spur of the moment we went out for a pub lunch with my new in-laws, and had to try half a dozen country pubs before one wasn't fully booked. We ended up at The Palm Tree, a bit of an old style family country pub. They were all out of the vege options, but we were sat down before finding this out, so I settled for salad and chips. Anyway, discovered lots of fine looking pubs in Elham, so we will be returning. As mentioned, a bit of a party and then curry for tea round Deano's, that's the perfect Sunday. Not having to work the next day helped.
Yesterday we had more chores, returning things to Whitstable and Canterbury. Caught up with Lost, that is looking GREAT. What on earth is going on though.
Up early this morning, and back at work. BOO! Two weeks to honeymoon.
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