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Talk about hedging your bets

New KISS t-shirts. I guess they're saying "just make sure you vote", but it's a bit like selling arms to both sides of the war isn't it?...

Arr!

Don't be forgettin' to Talk Like A Pirate today!...

VW Beetle "van" for sale

Check this out, a VW Beetle that looks like a van. Can I buy it please, the wife?...

Precision engineering?

Are you a major shipbuilder looking for some machine components? How about a vintage aeroplane fan who needs some custom remade components? Structural engineering components? Marine leisure industry components? No, I thought not, but I'm thinking of ...

Free art fun day at the Leas Cliff Hall, Thursday 11th September

Make clothes out of "trash"? Is this our Leas Cliff Hall, in Folkestone, or somewhere in the USA?...

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Speaking of tipping, see what tipped over

This tree tipped up in the high winds I guess:That's the terrace / smoking area of The Bank Bar under that tree, don't suppose there was anyone sat out there with today's weather anyway. This looked fresh, it must have only just happened. Snapped tod...

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Tree blown down in front of Kalala

You wouldn't want to have been sat outside The Bank Bar today. Came across this on my way home today, looks like it can only just have happened. If you have a dinner booked at Kalala tonight, I think you'll be using the side entrance......

Rated 8.22/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Has anyone seen Clare?

And I assumed she just headed off to Barcelona as planned! Someone's got her! Can you read that phone number?I'm posting a lot more this weekend. Can you tell I am bored? I've even done some cleaning and some DIY, and for TWO walks around town....

"if you haven't already had a peek, go up to the bayle and have a look at window, no 13 the bayle."

That was the advice from www.folkestonefringe.com, so I did.Probably not worth making a major detour for. Perhaps it changes every day though and brightens up someones walk to work, from the niceness of The Bayle into the grimness of the town centre....

Some old photos of Folkestone

I bought an album of photos not so long ago and these photos of Wear Bay Road and Folkestone were included in it. I thought you might like to see them and possibly pass on the the ones of Wear Bay Road to any residents of houses featured. I don't kno...
Rated 4.78/10 on Folkestone Gerald

MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock is off to Edinburgh NOW!

The Last Working Day Of The Month, Issue 42-------------------------------------------(MJ Hibbett & The Validators FACT, July 31st 2008)Hello all, and welcome to this FESTIVAL FUNTIME edition of the newsletter. Let's GO!GIGS TO COMEThis month I shall...

New google walking directions (needs some work)

120 miles on foot or two miles by road, hmm. I think they put these deliberate mistakes in there just to get people talking.Talking of google, www.cuil.com is launched, they've been spidering this site for a while, it's a new search site started by s...

Lovely wedding!

Went to a wedding at the weekend, and it was lovely. Got out of work early Friday, trained up to meet Clare at Auberge, then a step around the corner to The Wellington at Waterloo to get a real ale, then another step around another corner to a pub th...

Folkestone pub mapplet

Heard of Mapplets? No? Used Google maps though haven't you? Wouldn't you like to add the Folkestone pub map without having to visit this site? You can! add it to your map. Now you can find a local pub (or in lots of other towns actually) from with Go...

Elephants!

Clare saw elephants on the way to work this morning:

I bought a thing

This is what I bought at the boot fair yesterday, but was too traumatised to write about because of squished finger:It's a valet like this one, but a bit nicer I think. It looks older than it is and I've no idea what wood it's made out of, it's been ...

ouch

Limited updates from me today, just shut my finger in the car door, so only my left hand is in action.Not broken, but can't type so well. Oh dear, can't do the housework either.Made my first mapplet on Friday. Going to investigate more, mapplets and ...

Google are you taking the piss?

Been getting this captcha thing from google all day, it's because we work in a big office and all share an IP address, so to the outside world it looks like lots of traffic from one computer. Honest though, there are hundreds of us here.This time I t...

RE: Sellindge Music Festival!

Hey there,I was at Sellindge Music Festival this year and had a great weekend, really nice small festival. Did anyone see our green camel at the back of the main field?I got some photo's of the festival here if anyone is interested... http://www.fest...

They HEART Folkestone, I HEART Folkestone

These guys love Folkestone, they have made these, tiny heart head, uh, THINGS. Clearly it's more I HEART NY than anything else, but I'd still like to believe there's a little piece of my pants in there - Clare's mum made me these in 2002:That was bac...
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the most glorious holiday destination in all England

Man alive we've had a lot of press over the past couple of days (we as in Folkestone, rather than me personally), it's been great. The weekend of Triennial events itself was good and there was a real buzz about the town. I'm not entirely sure that it...

Are you down with OPP?

The excellent Other People's Photographs project has been absorbed into some Channel 4 project and is putting their name to www.opp2.org. Only two pictures posted there from Folkestone, no actual connection with the OPP project as far as I can see so...

Speaking of journeys through time and space...

The Mighty Boosh festival lineup is out, as seen on posters at Folkestone station, though I'm sure I could have been quicker off the mark than that. It's a bit ropey actually. The 'Boosh themselves headline I think, with The Charlatans, Gary Numan, W...
Rated 6.05/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Bring me the head of Jorge Zamudio

Who are you Jorge, why have you only one favourite picture, and it's this picture of my bro-in-law's Miami apartment?I think the apartment is up for sale right now, I'm sure I can do you a deal if you get in touch....

Useful tips for guitar beginners!

This is what I was after, thank you Neil and Mark:cheat - don't use every finger on every string like the books suggest in strange cramped positions.if you want open chords 90% of songs are D C and G2 bar chord shapes and don't worry about extending ...

Where'd the weekend go?

In fact where did the week go since I last had something to write about? Had plenty going on, I put it down to trying to learn the guitar, and the tips of my fingers are in far too much pain to type, so sorry if I go a bit slowly.If anyone has any go...

Sellindge Music Festival!

Sellindge Music Festival is happening on 7th & 8th June 2008 at Hope Farm, Gibbons Brook, Nr Ashford, Kent, England, TN25 6HH. See you there!�40 for the weekend, so cheaper than most festivals, and it ought to have a proper indie vibe, but the lineup...

We saw this

Strange halo effect around the sun, did you get it here? It was mad, I have tried to photo it but couldn't get back far enough. How do you get further away from the sun?Aha, reflected in my new shades! We really did see this in the sky though....

Richy is doing the London to Brighton

Sponsor him!Hello,I'm taking part in the London to Brighton Bike Ride 2008 on 15/06/2008 to raise money for British Heart Foundation and would really welcome your support.Please take a moment to sponsor me. It's really easy - you can donate online by...

Farewell then, John Price

John left our team on Friday, did they get him a brand new car as a leaving gift?

The Wedgewood Rooms

The Farm
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Brixton Academy

PWEI, plus my favourite band of the time Atom Seed....