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Yesterday's house hunt

A trip to Canterbury yesterday, an early start, four houses to see. First one was a bit further out than we first thought, up Whitstable Road, though not an insurmountable distance to Canterbury West. The house is at the end of a cul-de-sac, so you h...

[Crystal maze themed headline here]

Got home yesterday to find a new front door being fitted, it's amazing what you miss when you don't go to any of the residents meetings. So firstly, we have the inconvenience of only getting one key with this door, and new ones are fifteen pounds eac...

Second house-hunting trip around Canterbury

Saw five houses today in Canterbury, have a map with details of the things we saw. Clare's out tonight with Jenny, so it's a prime opportunity for me to do some fiddling about with maps and things, so sorry if it breaks. Not that you'll be on the com...

RE: Technology, and how it cancels itself out

I keep meaning to setup a streaming camera in the flat - to detect burglarisation or to spy on the neighbours.

Does your camera hook straight into the internet?

Boom shake the room!

Well I suspect you've all been frantically refreshing wondering when I'd report from this morning's earthquake! Amazingly it was three and a half hours ago now, the power was off until just recently so there wasn't a lot I could do, no internets, and...

Boohoo, I preferred their earlier stuff

This is rubbish:Oh, boohoo, i preferred the earlier stuff, now everyone's got an IPOD, it's not fair! What sort of massive 'lord is he anyway if he has to keep taking his computer into the "genius" bar to get it fixed? Just bang it on the desk until...

Folkestone Road in Walthamstowe, not Folkestone

From The Guardian regarding recent things;At least three of the men arrested on suspicion of being involved in a terror plot to blow up a series of transatlantic planes had converted to Islam, it emerged.Ibrahim Savant, from Walthamstow, east London,...

Too hungover to weblog yesterday

Feeling fresher today just about, let me get my gripe of the day out of the way first though. Today's train had the most annoying conductor on it, he just LOVED the sound of his own voice and I think he thought he was Bruce Forsyth, he announced ever...

Oof, a shooting in Folkestone

Only this week I was playfully mocking friends in Hampshire after reading a story about unsociable neighbours or some such, and now someone's been shot dead on our doorstep, and the gunman is still on the loose.OK, it's not actually on our doorstep, ...

Wife beating

Yesterday I beat the wife! Yes, it was the completion of the second ever Clarke Cup, and it went all the way to the wire. Scrabble was mine, cards was Clare's, then pool was mine, then the darts went to Clare, so it's all down to the backgammon... I ...

Hard-Fi

I love Hard Fi but I'm sure my neighbours hate me. I'm 43 of Afro Carib descent and have been playing the CD non stop ever since I got it (might even get served with an ASBO). I've got to say though I never really noticed the CCTV signs before unti...

Rated 4.43/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Folkestone property BOOM!

www.ourproperty.co.uk has it that a flat near me (Folkestone West End) just sold for �205,000! That's quite a lot of cash for a flat around here isn't it? It's one of the new ones on Earls Avenue, just how big are they then? I think this must have br...

Blee, spew, etc

Had a wild boozing session for one of the brothers-in-law's birthday yesterday (have I pluralised that right?), and am feeling crap today. We didn't make it as far as the pub, but stayed at our flat, no doubt upsetting the neighbours, drinking many b...

Unexpectedly worked from home yesterday, it was odd (but nice) to be in the flat in the day and hear the neighbours going about their business. Had to go out to try and get some food, BUT, Safeway in Folkestone is closed for a few days, while it rebr...

Barbecue

Nice weekend, though it didn't involve a crawl around the pubs of the harbour. Dean saw my post here about plans for Saturday evening and I don't think he was that impressed. Mostly we sat in finishing off the champagne and just went to Wards for las...

We're BACK!

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 cover...

I aspire to a gold card, but I struggle to pay off my debts

What's your postcode saying behind your back? Mine's not being very complementary at all:Incomes are quite low. People have average educational qualifications. Their relatively routine jobs are in shops and offices, and there is some unemployment. Wi...

Yeah 'stoney isn't perfect

Really don't like Folky though, it's like "old folk" and "folk round here don't like change" and things... hmm, that describes most of my West End neighbours actually!

why not?

nothing like a good old fashioned expensive legal tussle with your newish neighbours!!! of course i was only kidding - it's only a few days till the election anyway. FINGERS CROSSED FOR THE BLUES!!! mwahahahaaaaaa40 mins - it should be more. i think ...

The sound of sadness

WEIRD noises coming from out the back last night, someone banging pans possibly in Abney Park? Heard it again this morning, and NO! It's one of our neighbours rattling a cat food tin and shouting out for their pet. This makes me sad! Please come home...

Mouse Price

Heard a bit over the weekend about finding out the price of any house online, for a small fee, so going to have a go... www.mouseprice.com is the first one I've seen, though I don't know it if's any better than any of the others... Checking out my ow...

Progress

Got the scaffolder booked so as to make some progress on the new fireplace in the flat... might be all done in a few weeks, NICE! How's this for the gayest advert ever though? The scaffolding is sure to piss of our neighbours, if by any chance any of...

Thought for the day

Following my recent programming successes improving the PO (purchase order) system so it can be used by all of the companies in our group, and how it is acely searchable now, I'm going to expand the searching on this board, try and make it a bit more...

Splish Splash!

Boozetastic weekender in Folkestone, starting off with a shock drink in London! I rarely go out in the week any more, but popped in The Mynt Rooms for one with work chums, nice place, flash but comfortable, no ales but one pool table. Then, ONWARD, t...

New neighbours

The flat next door is sold! Indisputable proof that Folkestone property prices are going through the roof, and this time next year we'll all be millionaires Rodney....

Driving the neighbours away

Starting to take this personally now, another flat in our building is now on the market, this one is the same size as ours, also being on the third floor, it should be a mirror image of ours. Nice to see it's a bit more than we paid, but then it does...

RE: RED SQUARE

odd little flats these...the garden is a postage stamp filled with brighton beach pebbles...all the neighbours can see in your house as its written in your lease you cannot put up nets as it goes against the architects creative vision (too common)......

RE: Carpetted

Bah, rubbish. Pauly just wants a nice flat, the way HE wants it. He also feels it was presented to him under the false pretenses that his neighbours were accomodating.Pauly, I think you should put your foot down on this matter. Sorry, that wasn't adv...

Carpetted

Things were shit yesterday, I met with some of the other freeholders, they were mostly nice, but the concensus is "NO, you cannot have a wooden floor in the flat". So not sure what to do now, I guess put in a lower offer to cover having to recarpet t...

The Flat (slight return)

Bit of unwelcome proactivity from the solicitor at 8:30 this morning, there's a problem with the deed of variation for the flat. While the chairman of the company that owns the freehold agrees that the terms of the lease can be updated to match how t...