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A weekend in Portchester

Was curious about a new road called Caer Peris View in Portchester, dad found info about it on this Portchester Castle site explains that Caer Peris means Portchester Castle, it's named after a guy called Perrex who declared himself king. There's als...

A weekend in Portchester

Was curious about a new road called [map]Caer Peris View[/map] in Portchester, Dad found info about it on this Portchester Castle site explains that Caer Peris means Portchester Castle, it's named after a guy called Perrex who declared himself king. ...

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I've seen the snowman on Kerry's facebook, very nice...

Flooding in Portchester

No-one told me about this! Fareham shopping centre closed, oh dear.Lazyish day today, been shopping to get ingredients for tomorrow's house barbecue. We've not met all the people who live in the building, but we're all having a barbie together. Our j...

Body discovered in Portchester

No name as yet, discovered in the mud near Wicor marine boatyard.UPDATE: Dead man named as Darren Tully....

Nice long weekend in Sandgate, Folkestone, Hythe and Portchester

FINE weekend, thank you far asking, good long weekend too, but a bit tiring. Thursday was birthday day (my birthday and also the wife's birthday), and while we were working in the day we'd booked the Friday off so we could have a night out with no fe...

Bands you've heard of playing... Portchester?

I thought Portchester was like the island in Lost, there'd been some terrible accident there a while back and tour bus sat nav system just could not see it. There's been another accident and Girls Aloud and Status Quo are to play there this August ba...

Heavy snow both ends

Just back from the parents, we had heavy snow there at 8am this morning that settled, probably 3 or 4 inches deep in an hour, very nice to see but a bit terrifying, we thought it was there for the duration and we'd not be able to get back to Folkesto...

I knew I'd heard somewhere Neil Gaiman was from Portchester

It says so in this Time article... He's 11 years older than me, so I'm not likely to have bumped into him around the town.

Drug-crazed arsonist feared alien attack

Best local newspaper headline ever, unfortunately the rest of the story isn't quite as interesting.Great day looking at houses in Canterbury, will report in with map and pictures in a bit....

Art prank, or something else?

Someone's put "official looking" signs up around Portchester informing local residents that 600 new homes are to be built on a green field site, the Southern Daily Echo reports. Local councillors claim they are hoaxes, what's going on..?Councillors h...

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...

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...

Punch up at the Seagull

I used to work in this pub, so did some chums of mine, at least one who reads this blog. My runner up memory of this place is happy times working in the bar there (after leaving The Harbour Lights but before heading off to do the BTEC with Nixdorf), ...

Important cool stuff from the weekend that I forgot

Forgot two things from the weekend! I drove my old VW Beetle in the first time since I don't know when! Sold the car in about 1993 I think, to a friend, and when it had finally conked out on him he offered it back to my Dad who towed it back home. It...

Portchester Castle mentioned in the Telegraph today

Some ghostly nonsense, spoon fed to them by English Heritage:At Portchester Castle, in Portsmouth Harbour, a member of staff heard the sound of horses' hooves and then saw a riderless horse emerge from the walls of the castle, race across the area wi...

Portchester Man in the news

And it's not even part of a paedophile protest or anything! A chap called Bill Thomas has written to the queen. There you go, that's Portchester's fifteen minutes.Loving Kanyelicious (did you see..?), thanks iphonegamesbulletin.com.Harry has bathed a...

Good weekend

As previously mentioned I was at a funeral on Friday, but apart from that the weekend was good. As sombre as the funeral was it was also a celebration of the life of Toby and it's really not often all the family is gathered together like that. The wa...

The Seagull is CLOSED!

I used to work in this pub, it's at the bottom of Mum and Dad's road, and now it's closed! Just a refurb by the looks rather than an actual victim of anti pub culture. It is way too big to be just a pub though, I don't suppose the area can really sup...

Portchester Community Centre to be demolished

And moved to the Precinct. Presumably not brick by brick.I have happy memories of "Holiday Playtime" there as a child and I think I did judo there too. I remember the O, M, M, I, and Y of the illuminated sign being smashed for ages to spell out a Ver...

I thought they Seagull had changed?

The Seagull has not changed. They renovated the place, they should have renovated the punters. Mum and Dad went there recently and did not rate it.

Linden Lea closing?

It's been sold and the existing tenants have been asked to leave, so it closes this Saturday...@kmharris says "that is good news" but you don't know yet what they're going to build in its place... what if they knock it down and build a highrise deten...

Linden Lea has reopened

Says the Evening News...Now leased to the Wycombe Pub group, who have employed Kieran Klaus as thew new manager....

The Linden Lea has reclosed!

After the big reopening news it seems The Linden Lea, Portchester, has closed again. That didn't last long! There was a big row there last week, the police were called and someone climbed from the grounds of the pub into neighbouring gardens. To esca...

Freehold shop + maisonette for �41k in Southsea

Fire damaged, but still... that just came up in a regular google alert for Portchester because some Castle Trading Estate warehouse units "only" attracted a bid of �650k.Completely addicted to Homes Under The Hammer again, it's so good that Clare is ...

Crisp packets still left on the tables, like a pikey Marie Celeste

The News has the news about the re-closure of the Linden Lea. Their story is only from Friday, though this must have re-closed more than a week before as I heard the previous Friday it had been bought by a developer, from Southampton. Perhaps just lo...

Have you seen these Portchester thieves?

These people are wanted in connection with a �1200 theft from a 97 year old woman in Portchester. Seen them? Call the cops!...

Portchester bag snatching couple featured in all the papers today

I hope they get caught now. The Mirror reports that there was a carol service in Portchester to raise some money for the 97 year old lady who had 1200 pounds stolen, lovely...

White Hart closes this weekend.

Evening News has more details...Have not been in that pub many times, once fairly recently when it was already in a serious decline....

Ask me Ask me Ask me

Great weekend visiting mum and dad. We set off fairly early on Saturday, Harry slept all the way there so we did not stop at all. Weather was atrocious and we forgot Harry's coat so we had to stop and buy him one when we got there, oops. We said our ...