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Evil day

Cold and horrible here, just done the shopping in the rain. Some snow this morning, too wet to settle though. FREEZING like I don't think I have ever known in Canterbury yesterday, proper arctic. Wondered round the shops a bit while Clare was having ...

The Royal Oak

Excellent pub, good friendly atmosphere. Food was really great, tasty, good value, cheap and didn't take long to arive. Great choice in real ale and most pints were priced at about �2 cheapest I have seen in this area. Well recommend a visit.
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Non political news

Ah, the weekend, seems like so long ago now. Chocka at work this week, I am shut away in isolation for two weeks to work on a new project. Good to be without distractions of people coming up to my desk, and actually good to be so busy, it's making th...

Nice weekend

Had a good weekend, reasonably uneventful but just NICE! Intended to start off with a quiz at The Grand, but they called Clare on the day to say it was cancelled, for a private function. Good job she had called to reserve a table and left her number,...

Four videos on the blog at once, that's not what it's all about

Just tried to give blood, and after waiting for an hour, I had to give up and come back to work, bah. So now I am bursting with an extra pint of blood that I wasn't expecting to be carrying around with me! It's going to take a real extra effort to ge...

Simple Simon's: GONE!

Simple Simon's has reopened as "The Parrot". Still very similar, less independent beers on the bar and more Youngs, as that's who owns it now. Had a brace of pints there yesterday afternoon and it was very nice. They now sell bottles of beer at the b...
Rated 5.68/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Portchester weekender

Spent a smashing weekend in Portchester as it was Mum's birthday yesterday. Headed over Friday afternoon on the train, meeting up with Andy on the way in The Golden Lion. Not a great pub but a good evening anyway and some nice pints of HSB and a chat...

Rated 5.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Nice pub, nice location

Bit pricey though I think. Maybe I don't put my hand in my pocket often enough, but three quid for a pint of bitter and one pound eighty for a diet coke seems a bit excessive to me.Lovely to sit out in there garden though, it's the only place within ...
Rated 8.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Our actual first day in Key West

I realise that my previous post about our first day in Key West a) didn't contain any info, b) had things from our second day on the map, and c) has slipped down the page and no-one will read it. So here at last is the first part of our journey. Clar...

Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

the three mackeral

i find it really hard to understand why certain people here cannot support local people who are trying to improve folkestone.i have visited the three mackeral on numerous occasions and have always found it to have a warm friendly atmosphere with plea...

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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...

Where we walked yesterday

Not very far, but if you click through you can track me yesterday. We got the bus to Canterbury and the GPS was turned off on the bus so the whole route isn't plotted, still playing about with my mapping. Just posted some photos of our walk to Capel ...

Hell yeah, encouragement, that's what I need!

Well it was a lunch more than an actual party, and there's really not a huge amount to report, and you're not interested anyway, but HELLO TO ME IN THE FUTURE, how's it going five years from now? Do you remember that day, about five years ago, when y...
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Splendid weekended

Great weekend, went to visit the folks and we got down in plenty of time to go to Portsmouth Dockyard and see the Mary Rose and the Victory. The Mary Rose was more interesting than I thought, it's not just a big lump of driftwood, but the Victory was...
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Bless The Boot

Bless the boot, come on England. Really looking forward to this tomorrow, like every other part time England fan. I would not say we have a chance really, but you never know. Personally I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a food poisoning outbreak at...

Frank Skinner last night

Quite a good gig last night, Frank was funny and rude, and likeable because of his self depracating ways. He did two sets, with an interval, and then came back to do a little song on his banjo too. He's on tour for another two months, so see him if y...

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Rah!

Canterbury today, so lunch in Wagamama and a cheeky pint in The Dolphin, and as if life wasn't good enough already, my blogroll links have popped back up again in the sidebar over there --->...

Jackdaw Pub Over Priced?

�7.05 for a Pint of Lager a Pint of Orange Juice and lemonade and a packet of peanuts. The Americans who seemed to flock to the lifeless and tacky pub maybe used to being ripped off but I certainly wasn't. Wouldn't go again.

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Back to the weekend

I knew I'd written a few things this morning and forgotten to hit the send button, but didn't realise I'd turned the computer off as I ran out the door. I was about to blame the PC crashing, but it was all human error this time. So what did I have to...

Party weekend

Bah, I wrote this out once already and closed the browser by mistake... had kind of a busy week at work, that's got to be a good thing, but it's meant not really any time for writing here in the day time, and some days have seen me concentrating on s...

Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)

Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu...

Long weekend

Been away a long time (apart from my little post this morning about wireless things) and we fitted quite a lot in really, felt like a proper holiday since my complaints about QI.Our afternoon out in Canterbury was good, though not absolutely everythi...
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I love the smell of salami in the morning

The office is liberally decorated with german sausage this morning, the company just launched a new service selling Europa Parks, tickets and hotels and all that and to celebrate we have a smorgasbord of German food, if that's not a contradiction. Th...

Hot weekend

Weekend was ace wasn't it? We started with a lunchtime pint with work at a nice pub called The Drum, then a few drinks just the wife and me. Saturday we headed to The Whole World Cafe, and what do you know it was actually open this time? We were a bi...

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Good drinking weekend

We checked out the annual Easter Ales Festival at Chambers on Thursday and Friday nights, and have had a couple of nights back at the flat playing pool and listening to my new Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs collection, and had a day in Canterbury (inclu...

More Fighting Cocks

Their new single "Hang Up The Moon", it's brilliant:We're in the midst of a fabulous weekend, had a great time up in London yesterday afternoon and evening, and have had an equally splendid afternoon in Canterbury today, including lunch at Wagamama a...

Good weekend, to be sure

Work birthday outing on Friday night, so glad they'd picked Escondido, it was great. Then a couple of pints in Gate 28 and I could feel I was getting a bit too squiffy, so I called it a night early, didn't want to make a lasting impression on my firs...

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Folkestone on TV

Well, Sandgate anyway. Shornecliffe Redoubt was on this week's Time Team, and they found precisely none of what they were looking for... they did stop for a pint in The Ship though.Grand weekend, after the rugby and an early dinner we went on a bit o...

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Rabbits and finches

Walk home from work today wasn't so dark, not pitch black anyway, not sure if that's the position of the moon or something, or that it's really getting lighter. We went to the office at the weekend, so I could show Clare where it was, and we saw a ra...