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Chinese Mushrooms

Mushroom recipe from Neil:Big load of mushrooms (about 1/2 a pound), quarteredgarlic (several cloves)3 tsp five spice powder1/2 tbs grated fresh gingerlarge onion, sliced thinly2 tsp veggie gravy granules1 tsp soy sauce1/2 tsp hot pepper sauceoil for...

Oasis @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

I was there at The Wedge, ace gig, and I really do remember this one, unlike the Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird one I wrote up the other day...Found this bit of text from an NME interview, written by Simon Williams, quoting the band talking about t...

2 bedrooms, 150k

No, not London, still Folkestone, are they mad? Sounds nice though, and it has exposed floorboards, central heating, double glazing, 2 bedrooms and garage. It's in a "sought after area" Trinity Road, just off [[Bouverie Road West...Tonight, EXIT - un...

Our mushrooms

mushrooms!That's wood hedgehogs on the left, then some chanterelles, then a lone porcini at the back, then some boletes on the right....

More Mushroom Magic

Bedgebury Pinetum was one of the places we unofficially had a bit of a look for mushrooms the other day... if you fancy ago without being chased off by the gamekeeper, they organise official events there, with a chance to eat what you find:Sunday 3 O...

I want your mushrooms. Where are they?

Folkestone in the Guardian today, in a story about how magic mushrooms have come back into the mainstream and the highstreet, and then suddenly there's a superbad crackdown again:One retailer caught in the police crackdown was Andy Burgess, who runs ...

Shrooms

Was hoping to get the phone number & address for Andy Burgess Headz shop in Folkestone. Can anyone help, cheers. Kel x

Folkestone roundup

Ref Leaves Field After Stab Threat in Folkestone... Referee Gavin Hoare ran and hid and demanded police protection after supporters allegedly threatened to attack him and his family.... John McCrirrick gets in a bit of a row, and a 54 year old Tunbri...

mushrooms?! TUT

do they take you to a higher level of consciousness?anyway, how good are the album releases next week? cant stop listening to dont phunk with my heart - that's a bad tune.my main news is that after 92 hours of viewing i have FINALLY finished watching...

They're good old fashioned eating mushrooms

My bro in law to be suggests that the big mushroom in the tree is a razor strop fungus, doesn't look like any of these though. It's hard to tell just from my snap though.I love The West Wing, we are still on series one though, only a few disks in, we...

Posh Bird and Baby Bird

Baby Bird himself, Steven Jones was in the tea rooms next to our office a minute ago, having dinner, with I guess his wife and his nipper. Just about managed to restrain myself from singing about the gorgeousness of said lady or baby.Also in there w...

Adam Ant

Knocking out a cracking 'Ant Music' and cutting the rug at the post show disco....

Tuesday Dec 18

Differ'nt Strokes

The Strokes, are five New Yorkers, and they've just sent a CD with a track called Barely Legal (on an EP called The Modern Age, out now on Rough Trade), that's got to be worth a news story, if only for getting this page in the "Billie Piper Naked" se...

Are you ready to rave on?

Don't forget Manchester day at the Elbow Rooms today, it's started now...Elbow and Alpine Stars are playing there today, but most probably no old skool Manchester stars.It's promoting an CHARITY THING though, so if you're in North London, go along to...

Ash @ Elbow Rooms

Double Ash news this week - as well as their "gig" at the Elbow Rooms on Sunday (turns out they're DJing, and Tim Wheeler will be doing a little solo acoustic thing, but HEY, what can you expect for free) they're also doing a special TV recording, th...

Santa Clause is coming to town

You've missed a couple of dates, this schedule got caught up in the ether, but there's probably still time to catch The Cooper Temple Clause when they come to your town...The debut EP "The Hardware EP" is out on Monday (the 19th) and will be availabl...

Sunday Sunday

This Sunday at the Elbow Rooms, Islington looks alright - MO-HO-BISH-O-PI playing live, and Mark Morris of the Bluetones on the wheels-of-steel. And also playing some records.

It's free, so I might see you there...

Site's been away for a few hours

Maybe it's still away now, maybe you can't read this, maybe no-one reads this anyway, whatever, the site has been away for a few hours because the hosting company have moved me onto another machine because I was getting too many hits and that.Funny o...

Today we went for a walk

A bit of a nature ramble, looking for wild mushrooms. Didn't find any, but we did see this sign:We did not touch anything, so it neither exploded, nor killed us....

Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue

I used to go and see the Raymond and Mr Timpkins revue in Portsmouth about a million billion years ago, before I moved to London, which was before I moved to Folkestone. This is the early '90s I'm talking about, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth....

Recommended comedy if you're in Folkestone this Saturday night

The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Review are at the Cheesegrater this Saturday. I have seen them LOTS, they are from Portsmouth.

Raymond and Mr Timpkins are coming to Lanterns

Raymond and Mr Timpkins are BACK, despite the recent gig at the Cheesegrater being cancelled. They're playing Lanterns on Saturday 24th of July. You should go.

Going to Southsea Fest next Saturday

Meeting some friends next weekend, and instead of the usual Wetherspoons in Fareham, Ro suggested Portsmouth. So we started planning a bit of a crawl along the pubs of Albert Road and then discovered yesterday that Southsea Fest is on that day. So we...

Southsea Fest was GOOD

Did not make the most of our wristbands, only went to the Wine vaults and then the Wedgewood Rooms and then for a curry, but we all had a great time. I can't wait to go out in Albert Road again. No time to report back with more info.Massive thanks to...

Southsea Fest is on again

Thinking about going to this southseafest.com will probably buy tickets on pay day just in case... We went last year and it was great. Particularly the beer in The Wine Vaults.

Goldie Lookin' Chain

At Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms, no I didn't go...

Molly Half Head

I remember going clearly, but don't think this can have been the first of my trips to the Wedgewood Rooms, can it?

Lee Hurst

Back again so soon? I've seen him quite a lot, recommended, he used to compere at my local comedy club

Hotel Rooms At The Gleneagle Hotel

Oasis

I saw them on this tour at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms...