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Keep them safe

I am just waiting to grow a bit round the waist and for my legs to shrink with old age and then I'll steal them off you!Vintage Levis are worth good money, if only you'd not worn them for decorating! Can't find any on ebay to prove a point but I'm su...

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...

Free bonus bit of decoration

Got decorators in right now, finally getting our earthquake damage done, and they've done a nice job so far. They just came back for a couple of hours finishing off today, and one of them confessed that he'd broken one of our pictures. "No problem, w...

Hmm, freecycling

9. WANTED!!!!!!! Anything Sponge Bob Square Pants.....Folkestone...Deco Posted by: "wezleyjohn" Date: Fri May 4, 2007 11:42 pm ((PDT))Hello there we are redecorating my sons bedroom after the Quake that we had as we got hit fairly badly and we w...

Aching again

More decorating today, still no job, so another day helping Dean out. Here he is, supping beer, while I was hard at work painting:Got no before shots, so you can't see quite how much we've done, but the room was all originally dark red. There's a du...

An honest day's work!

Lawks, that frightened me a bit, today I have been WORKING! Not real work, tapping on a keyboard, but monkeying about decorating Dean's front room. We worked all day on it, and to be honest it's looking slightly worse than when we started, so I think...

Blah blah London blah blah

US troops ordered to avoid London, thanks for that chaps! None are being ordered to avoid Iraq though I don't think. Personally I've been advised to pull my socks up and get right back on the tube, ah well. Travelling is rubbish at the moment, even n...

Decorated!

Good work decorating elves, the front room is looking very nice now! Still got a gap to fill with skirting board, if we can match up this massive Victorian pattern. Hope ew can find a salvage yard somewhere...Great weekend too, went to Savour Aroma i...
Rated 8.59/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Please drive by carefully in our village

One of the very few things I'll miss about not commuting into work on the 243 bus any more is the graffiti. There are some big works by Banksy and others that you get a fine view of from the Kingsland Road. A reallly simple one just said Please drive...

Keeping my head down

Not actually much to report this week, just keeping my head down to get through the week, really looking forward to 5.30 on Friday. This weekend Clare's bro is over from the Americas, where he lives, so it should be a right royal piss up.Our living r...

Eating in Alcudia

Places we ate, while I remember... www.hotelbahiadealcudia.com where we were half board had a big buffet affair for breakfast and tea, and they were both a bit grim. La Traviata on Avenida de Mexico has aspirations, but was similarly awful, possibly ...