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Another odd looking Bergerac Oak table

Here's another Bergerac Oak dining table with the same odd colouring as the other pieces I've seen on ebay recently... is this maybe an older colour that John Lewis used to do? Our bookcases are the mid coloured "Alsace" range, it's not that, but we ...

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 ...

Particularly fulsome weekend, with curries.

Splendid weekend, a bit different this time, starting off with a half day on Friday. I headed to Winchester to meet up with some friends, and really needed the extra time to make the most of the night. Clare stayed home watching Children in Need afte...

Fullsome weekender

Well I say full, full of pubs really. Friday night we stayed in, so as to have more energy for going out on Saturday. We had a trip to Canterbury in the day (and you'll never guess where we had lunch), no actual christmas shopping, but we went in a c...

Free acoustic showcase double bill at Chambers, 16th August

Important news, I have an acoustic showcase DOUBLE BILL coming up at chambers on THURS AUG 16th: CREATIVE ECLECTIC presents: In the upstairs coffee shop 7.30-9.30pm the internationally renowned guiarist and composer LEE WESTWOOD performing his enchan...

Rated 8.51/10 on Folkestone Gerald

History in my day

Another bright and breezy morning, just cool enough to stop me walking down town in just a t-shirt, but warm enough not to stop me walking down town at all. I headed the usual route past the courts and the DSS (all the nice scenic points), to what I�...

One night in Paris*

So we hit Paris at the weekend, and we'd only been there a matter of minutes before Paris hit me. Friday, very early morning Eurostar, but nice, as it was from Ashford, which is just up the road from us. So no need to head into London, or even to get...

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...

Hillside Social Club

Tofts and The Hillside Social were Completly different clubs. The Hillside Social was on another part of Grace Hill and closed before the end of the sixties. Tofts went on well into the 70's and later became a disco. Tofts when hosting live bands nev...

Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Now that's just mean

In the same weekend that the whole nation gets weepy about one (1) dead whale, there's more news about brazillions of grey squirrels being culled.Great weekend of comedy and sort of DIY. Went to the Lanterns comedy night Saturday, and quite literally...

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history

When I used to go to Tofts in 1968/69, it was on Grace Hill. It had a coffee bar but served no alcohol. Every Friday there was a 'disco' which cost 2s 6d and a group on Saturdays which cost 5s or 7s 6d or sometimes 10s.People who played there include...

Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

San Francisco

So, part the first of my big holiday / honeymoon write up. Slight preamble, some experiences on the way there. Our flights were at nice civilised times, but to save any rush and extend the holiday a bit, we booked into a hotel at Heathrow. But it was...

More San Francisco tips

first of all, are you staying at the W Hotel? If not, it is next to Moscone and the bar in there called XYZ is really great - and the hotel a nice place if you can stay there. Around the downtown area, for lunch especially an SF tradition is Tadich's...

Farringdon: RUBBISH

Getting really annoyed by the lack of absolutely ANYTHING near to work, here in Farringdon... the lack of cash machines is pain enough, there are a few around but clearly not enough, any time I need one the queues are huge. Even worse was today's que...

Free Coffee

Very strange, went to get my usual coffee this morning, and the guy wouldn't take my money, he said "bless your house" or something, and gave it me free... NICE ONE!Slightly too much boring admin today, adding people to lists, taking them off, etc......

Send me stuff, I will front page you!

The Worlds first genetically modified pop superstars announce their fabulous debut single "Yippie I Oh", set for release 18th August 2003.HEY, I just got brown paper bag delivered to my desk, I thought it was some coffees, but NO, it's a video and a ...

Totally Wired

No, not wired at all, we've had a serious shortage of coffee today, as the guy in the tea rooms next door is on his own, and is too busy doing food, so can't be arsed to do coffee...Was thinking of going out, to the pub and that, there's some top stu...