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Hot Leg Review - first Hot Leg Review EVER?

Was as we expected, maybe hotter, certainly smellier than I would have liked. We spent the evening secretly wishing they would play some songs that we knew - not necessarily Darkness songs, but maybe some cheeky covers, tipping their hat to their ref...

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Amazon bought this book for something like two million pounds in a charity auction. And now they're releasing it so you can enjoy it too.Available December 4th 2008....

I must have something more interesting to write about than php?

Um, no, perhaps not.I got a new hard drive at last, after all the problems I had with the ibook and having to send it back, I didn't rush into getting another backup job, but I saw a bargain at Maplin Seagate 500GB FreeAgent, and it seems to be worki...

Folkestone camera club update

Recently our 5th Print competition of the season was held and judged by Kevin Harvey a member of St. Mary�;s Bay Camera Club and , a very experienced photographer with excellent tips on how we can improve our photography. Winners (points our of 20) ...

New not-comedy on BBC4

Looking forward to this, the first in a new series "The curse of comedy", it'll be a drama mockumentary type thing about the relationship between Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Starring Jason Isaacs (The State Within) as Harry H Corbett and Ph...

Quiet few days

Had a lovely weekend, disastrous in terms of house hunting, but great in every other ways. We didn't get to see any houses this weekend, there don't seem to be any on the market really that fit our requirements. We saw a couple of new houses online t...

Cute otter

From cuteotters.com

Weekend train fun

Planning a little trip to Winchester tomorrow evening, to catch up with old friends and have a curry and a few drinks. Staying over, so no worries about trying to get back here, and then meeting Clare in London the next morning for shopping and thing...

Lottery winner dumps sinner

A HOODIE dad who won �700,000 on the Lottery has split from his girlfriend � after he caught her in bed with his COUSIN.It's our Folkestone soap opera. At the time of writing there are no plans to confiscate their money and hand it over to me as far ...

Folkestone lottery winners!

Lordy, not me unfortunately. Lots of details here in Kent News, though it was also on the BBC. Kelly Lucas and Ollie Kennedy are the names, if you want to tap them for a drink!...

Hot weekend

Had a good week, lots going on at work, including the aforementioned rowing trip and picnic meeting in Hythe, very nice, then also a Harry Potter themed barbecue at work (I'm still plodding through the audiobook, don't tell me how it ends), and a pub...

Quite Interesting

Went back to QI, and it was ace, glad we made the effort. I had the afternoon off, and got away on time, so I had hours to kill before the show. I went to the National Gallery, and saw some paintings, it was nice. Then I wondered around Soho grazing ...

No snow here

Had a few pictures emailed and texted in from friends and family about the place of their snowy gardens and the like. Just very cold here, and mostly clear, though I can see some low lying cloud or heavy fog up on the hills.On the top of both fog and...

There is another UK Skink doing the rounds

This from a press release from January last year:LONDON: It needs a brave soul and a strong stomach to have dinner with Arthur Boyt.For he is a connoisseur of roadkill flesh, and among the dishes served in his kitchen are casseroles made from squashe...

What a rotter

I missed most of the Girl with a one track mind sex blog stuff, I'm too lazy to read all but the tiniest circle of other weblogs (which I link to over there -->) but this Nicholas Hellen sounds a bit unpleasant.Thanks to Last Bus Home and other membe...

Clotto

From www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk, though I first read it in The Sun yesterday, shame on me... poor Fareham / Gosport man:Ecstatic Steve Moseley danced on his desk, threw money from his wallet at colleagues and told his boss to stick his job after being...

Original Harry Clarke artwork

I was just browsing ABE Books for Harry Clarke, as I knew they had some signed first editions and things, albeit at high prices. So what's the most expensive thing on there I wondered? Only this original water colour of The Emperor's New Clothes, thi...

This video is great

Got this from geekzine (via del.icio.us) where they seem to be under the impression it was a real pilot of a real show, it's an excellent spoof of all the best shows of my youth... I bring you HEAT VISION AND JACK!Too hot for much thinking today, and...

Hot weekend

Nice weekend, hot weekend, I even got sunburnt, lawks! We went to The Kent Show, and it was very nice. Lots of cool stuff there, like llamas and otters and birds and trucks and robots and Kaddy Lee-Preston and things, and I brought back some wine and...

Not much to say for a few days

Been watching quite a lot of Due South (we forgot to update our Amazon list) and doing some work on my Folkestone maps when I've had a few minutes. Now weather.I've sort of been enjoying the weather. Monday daytime I thought was fabulous, around lunc...

Squirrel plants super walnut tree

A lovely gardening story, not that much squirrel content actually. Now onto the weekend review!We went to Rye, and it is nice. We mooched around some very very old buildings and shops and things, and had a look inside Henry James' house, and did all ...

Six Feet Under

Searching for Folkestone news I found this story about a guy who got drunk and woke up in Africa, a bit sensationalised, it was Tunisia rather than the wilds somewhere, but it looks like he might have been from Folkestone. Anyway, point is, that's no...

It's Not Easy Being Green

I quite enjoyed this programme last night, if you have not seen it here's a book of it, it's about a family who obviously have a shitload of money becoming an eco commune. Generally, posh hippies make me want to kick the telly in, but this was quite ...

Chops!

Started the weekend with a super rarity, drinks in Farringdon. Been trying to meet up with a couple of the Fareham boys who are commuters too and work in the area, and this week no-one had a good excuse not to do it, so it's all on - To The Eagle. It...

Criminal Mischief!

Someone spray painted the word "Bloodz" on the sidewalk in front of a home in the 13000 block of Folkestone Circle. Oh, this is in Palm Beach, nothing to do with us, as you were......

What was I going to say?

Was busy when I came in this morning so I have forgotten the things I had lined up for today's "entry". Perhaps it was a gripe about the quality of signal from our new sky freesat box - it was far worse than the signal we're getting via the inbuilt f...

PSP update

I updated Clare's PSP yesterday, it's now got a new version of it's little operating system, which you can download direct from Sony. As well as some security issues and the ability to play Windows Media files now, it's got an RSS reader too. I hope ...

I can't remember any of my passwords...

Dang, nearly two weeks off, I've completely forgotten how to work, and I'm not the only one. Expecting lots of support type calls today saying the systems are not working, not accepting passwords, and it's just that everyone's forgetting. Windows pas...

Zeitgeist

Good toss del.icio.us is back up again today, this leads me to Google's zeitgeist report for 2005... this is some charts and graphs (I love charts and graphs) of on what people were searching for (and finding) this year. Interesting to see that podca...

PopEx

I am number 8 in the popex charts, not done this well for a while, even though it's my game... Is this the right time for me to be dumping my good performing shares and buying Shayne Ward (x-factor winner) instead? I'm feeling in the mood for a gambl...