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Paper free billing from BT

Just got a letter, through the post, from BT, about paper free billing. I'm already signed up. How much can I save off my bill if you don't send me this junk mail?

Alright, Mr Gordon Brown is listening to me...

Another petition, regarding a tax on plastic bags. With the news that M&S are stopping giving them away, things are rollling in a greener direction. With this, and the recent sunday newspaper story that Brucie probably WILL be getting his knighthood ...

Mr Gordon Brown refused my demand to abolish religious mythology in schools

Well fancy that. Do you think that one day a boy will ever be born who can swim faster than a shark one of these petitions will provoke anything other than a dismissal? We received a petition asking: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister...

10 myths about vegans

www.bboheme.com (who I once bought some shoes from) emailed me today to tell me it's world vegan day and to share with me an advert for their shoes and things, cunningly wrapped in a "10 Myths about Vegans" list. They know bloggers love lists like fr...

Folkestone literary festival kicks off

We've got tickets on the way for a few events including David Starkey and Terry Jones, get yours at www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk/:We have carefully put together nine days of eclectic and exciting world-class authors and performers to entertain you. Th...
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Up to our HIPs (geddit?!?!?)

First off, huge trouble at the quiz at The Ship last night - the wife and I were on different teams, as we had friends with us. It was looking like Clare's team was going to walk the mini quiz with a straight ten out of ten, and we'd got one wrong, s...
Rated 4.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

No more plastic bottle recycling at Folkestone tip

Apparently it's not worth doing...

Blood on the tracks

Watched "The Roadkill Chef" last night, billed by BBC Three as "Eccentric roadkill connoisseur Fergus Drennan tries to change the eating habits of the people in the town of Sandwich in Kent by throwing the community a roadkill feast". Sandwich is rea...

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...

A Seaside Year launches in Folkestone

Folkestone is to see a new creative project arrive in the town this winter with the launch of A Seaside Year bringing twelve months of new performing arts events and activities to the town.Four key scheduled events for Winter, Spring, Summer and Autu...

Leave Dave the dolphin alone!

The Folkestone Dolphin is in The Sun today:JET skiers and kayakers will be prosecuted if they harass a dolphin that has taken up residence in the English Channel.The dolphin who has been nicknamed "Dave" has made the sea off Folkestone, Kent, his hom...

Indian summer

Nice day again today then, I thought when the weather turned a bit ropey on the first of the month that we were due six months of winter... going to be in the eighties today, and looking good for our weekend too.Several more job applications in, noth...

What does the world health organisation know anyway?

The World Health Organisation recommends 24 degrees Centigrade as a maximum working temperature. But it's a recommendation, not law, so we can't leave the office, boo. If you're reading this at some point in the future, there's a good chance today is...

Well at least it's good for the garden

Not a lot else to report, having a lot of trouble with spammers on here, so if you want to post a reply I'm afraid you'll have to register now, until I can work something out.Nice that the rain has cooled things down a bit, it was a bit of a shock th...

Life is Usually Really Quite Fascinating

Nice one The Good Doctor, he just pointed out to me that you canoffset the CO2 cost of your holiday. I just did for our trip to Miami, �12.03 is now winging it's way to some right on tree planting ceremony. Not only do I hate flying, but I feel prett...

Mobile game reviews

Might do some work for a Mobile gaming company, not a company that actually makes mobile games, but a company that has a site that writes mobile game reviews and has mobile phone game news and things. Not much of a mobile gamer myself and might not e...

49 - 51 Earls Avenue

The snazzy looking development on our road is finally for sale with Fell Reynolds... they say:Numbers 49 & 51 Earls Avenue form a pair of elegant Edwardian Mansions, which have undergone complete refurbishment and conversion to offer twelve superior,...

haha - i got this!

Who should I vote for?Your expected outcome:ConservativeYour actual outcome:Labour -24 Conservative 19 Liberal Democrat 8 UK Independence Party 27 Green 37You should vote: GreenThe Green Party, which is of course strong on enviro...

Elstow Lodge

Elstow Lodge is a large, attractive, detached house in a very pleasant residential area of Folkestone. We are registered with the National Care Standards Commission and approved by both Canterbury and Coastal NHS and KCC Social Services.We are able t...

Recycling - KCC Recycling Centres

Found this resource of Folkestone recycling centres... hopefully the home collections will become a full time thing soon, I don't fancy wobbling along to one of these with a couple of dozen wine bottles hanging from my handlebars......

V Festival latest

I've been quiet today, beavering busily on busted balance sheets, so HEY! Here's some news written by someone else; The Killers, Deepest Blue and Syntax have been added to the V Festival lineup... An old workmate of mine is in Syntax, friend to the s...

Power cut

Into work and straight into panic stations this morning, there was a power cut overnight... suspected as much when my desktop machine was off, and hadn't been shutdown cleanly... same thing also affected our server room, where we're serving www.barfl...

is your environment not trippy enough?

solution one:this is a sort of smell generator thing with a complementary CD that, like, chills you out man�solution two:this is a sort of plastic block doohickey that sticks to your TV to, like, chill you out man�...

Actually, no...

"Introduced into New Zealand about 150 years ago from Australia, the brushtail possum has multiplied now to over 70,000,000. With no predators, this pest has decimated huge tracts of New Zealand native forests eating 21,000 tons of vegetation nightly...

Brilliant! Environmentally friendly nuclear missiles!

Concerned for the health of people being killed by nuclear bombs, the EPA has ordered new, less-toxic, rockets to be installed on ICBMs. "In order to comply with EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) regulations, and at a cost of about $5.2 million p...

Music Passport

Arrived at work to a disaster this morning, some web servers not responding, including www.musicpassport.org and it's launch day!Not sure who is confirmed to be playing, I know The Darkness and The Cure and others have been talked about, playing at B...

Only SONYA herself!

She was talking to me on Tuesday lunchtime in W. London enjoying the heated environment!

Please all let me know where else you've seen her?

Oops UPS-side yer head...

Got this from the hosting company just now:Early Monday morning UKSolutions suffered a loss of power. This loss affected a large area of Studley, Redditch and surrounding area.Throughout the morning, the network and servers were running from backup ...