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Bonus travel update

Sevenoaks turned into some sort of no go area yesterday, no trains allowed to pass through it at all, this caused carnage on the network from teh afternoon onward. Some people were held up for hours, I was only half an hour late home, but still not t...

Folkestone on popbitch

Not real popbitch (ie the popbitch newsletter), just something someone just posted on the board. I repeat it here for your delectation and delight:Meanwhile, on the last train out of Charing Cross on Saturday night...Your actual Cheryl Baker out of B...

Lovely day today

Super bright on leaving Folkestone, just so sunny as to be unreal. Very cold though, and only going to get colder this week. Could see lots of stars clearly from bed last night (through the open blinds, no missing roof or anything) so it's possibly r...
Rated 7.14/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Result

The TV Go Home Book fetches big bucks on ebay... well relatively, I'm going to sell mine and can probably expect 30 quid... Thanks the popbitch board for that little insight. I also just learned that you can read Tommyland online. For free!Last night...

RE: They can go high speed

aahhh i see. well i think it should stop at ashford only. sevenoaks and tonbridge already have good connections - sevenoaks particularly has more than enough direct trains to town. if it stops everywhere, it defeats the whole point of being a fast ro...

They can go high speed

but they have to keep stopping at stations.. there was a letter in the Folkestone Herald (not Folkestone Gerald) saying "it's not fair that the new high speed trains won't be stopping at my pissant hamlet station (I'm paraphrasing here) when it's st...

A very moving experience

So that's it then, we have left Stokey for the last time, and I'm now a Kentish commuter... certainly time to change the title of the website, maybe I will go about changing the URL too.Was physically tiring for me, as I am very weak, but luckily I h...

Weekend update

About time for a weekend update, all the things I didn't have time to write yesterday, if I can remember it all.I got in the bragging about the quiz, but just to remind you we were the "Uptown Architects", as we couldn't think of a funny name, and th...

Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Shepway Festival and Air Show

The air show was fantastic, I've not seen a Harrier Jumpjet before, it was spooky to see it stop dead in the air, fly backwards, turn around and do a little bow to the audience. Also saw Utterly Butterly wing walkers, a Tornado, Spitfires (not just t...