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David Devant top ten

Just browsing last.fm to see if anyone's mentioned the David Devant gig at the 100 Club (and they haven't), but I see this top ten of their tracks most listened, by users of last.fm. Who have installed the software, that monitors what you're listenin...
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New shop in town

There's a new Camden style retro shop opened in Folkestone. Today was the first day of opening, just low key at the moment, they're going to launch properly in a couple of weeks, I'm sure they'll invite me along for the champagne reception.Unfortunat...

RE: sandgate dolphin on youtube don t watch

Dave disappeared sometime in November and hasn't been seen since unfortunately

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...

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PHP 4 to 5 migration

Bit of an all encompassing thing this, I use PHP for work and for home, I've pretty much abandoned perl since I joined Holiday Extras a year and a half ago. PHP4, widely used everywhere, (including on this blog) is about to die. It's been on it's way...

What a lovely thought!

Unfortunately they did not leave their email address, I hope they see this page.

Actually, what am I thinking, it was me! I'm Craig Ramsden! And so's my wife!

RE: Thanks for clearing that up!

She wasn't actually working at the time. Unfortunately I know who it was and some background on it. It is a shame but suicide is indeed a very selfish act but then society might be to blame for causing some of the ills of this world. I am not going t...

The three rules of vegetarian food

From Neil, I hope he doesn't mind me reproducing this here, it's spot on. We were discussing pies:A veggie one would be possible, were it not for the first of the "foodindustry 3 laws of vegetarian food", i.e. "don't make it any fun", so unfortunatel...

Swing Afternoon review

Regular correspondent Woodo sent me this:I did promise a review of the "swing afternoon" at the Sandgate Hotel but as the weather was so great we spent most of the day in Bar Vasa however, we did pop in to catch the last couple of songs from the perf...
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Yesterday's house hunt

A trip to Canterbury yesterday, an early start, four houses to see. First one was a bit further out than we first thought, up Whitstable Road, though not an insurmountable distance to Canterbury West. The house is at the end of a cul-de-sac, so you h...

House hunt

Two houses today in Canterbury, different parts of town, but with things in common. For starters, both too expensive really at 250k each. If the market really is tumbling we might be able to make a cheeky offer on just about anything we see now thoug...

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 ...

seetickets.com DOWN!

That'll be everyone after Portishead tickets then...The service is currently busyPlease try againUnfortunately, we are experiencing a much higher level of demand than normal and are limiting the number of simultaneous users in order to provide the be...
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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 exhibition on Hythe Road

LOOK, good stuff, see these pictures at www.ezeetiger.com or in person at The Courtyard Gallery from the 3rd December...That's a great Dave Grohl, unfortunately it's no longer available according to www.ezeetiger.com - wsa it once hung in Chambers co...
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Fullsome weekender

Well I say full, full of pubs really. Friday night we stayed in, so as to have more energy for going out on Saturday. We had a trip to Canterbury in the day (and you'll never guess where we had lunch), no actual christmas shopping, but we went in a c...

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!...

Canterbury beer festival this weekend

And I am in Canterbury anyway! Unfortunately it's a little way out of the town otherwise I'd spend a few hours there while waiting for Clare to shop.ALL TICKETS FOR THE FRIDAY EVENING SESSION HAVE NOW BEEN SOLD. PLEASE DO NOT TURN UP AT THE FESTIVAL ...

Up to our HIPs (geddit?!?!?)

First off, huge trouble at the quiz at The Ship last night - the wife and I were on different teams, as we had friends with us. It was looking like Clare's team was going to walk the mini quiz with a straight ten out of ten, and we'd got one wrong, s...

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Folkestone Camera Club

If this site had a clubs and societies section, stuff like this would definitely be in it:Monday 14th May saw Mr John Butler ARPS DPAGB APAGB, returning to judge our 6th and final print competition of the season. With his usual expertise, and hints a...

Magic darts

Turned on the final of the Lakeside World Championship last night while we were having tea (Sunday, so chilli), and nearly turned it right off again as it looked like a bit of an embarrassing white washing, Martin Adams bein six sets to nill up again...

Number one result for "Habitat Radius"

Was just trying to find the furniture we bought at the weekend, and all the top results are me, how strange. It's down to Habitat's website being quite bad, the whole flash interface makes it hard to index, so my pages are coming up top. ANYWAY, here...

MARC BOLAN & T.REX LIVE IN FOLKESTONE

Great review and pictures of a Folkestone T-Rex gig, unfortunately it's all in German. Maybe I will translate it...Got some other Folkestone 1975 gig history from a scanned in poster on that site though, including K.C and the Sunshine Band, Judas Pri...

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Folkestone in the national media

Seems I got Folkestone into popbitch this week, unfortunately it's only for Granny man, and not anything nice. He's been "exposed" in this week's Herald...>> USA v UK ...

Radnor Club postcard

Someone sold a postcard here of The Radnor Club, for �22 recently. Unfortunately the picture of isn't loading...RADNOR CLUB, CHRISTCHURCH, FOLKESTONE. KENTPostally used 1913. Real photo Radnor club, Christchurch, Folkestone, Kent, minor corner creas...
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RE: John WINDEBANK

There was a Windebank coat of arms but it was not hereditary. It was awarded to only one Windebank and unfortunately it died with him. The same applied with the Baronecy.I am tracing the Windebank's of Fritham and Bramshaw but have got stuck at 1789....

RE: Have you seen dolphins recently off Folkestone or Sandgate?

Its good to see the dolphins back in our area, I can recall back in the early 1950`s they were quite a commnon site off the beaches of Herne bay.but unfortunately as the area grew in popularity and more boats took to the sea they disappeared.

Got me a new computer

Got myself a Dell, twin core and about a hundred times more powerful than what we're using now, plus the ability to burn and things. Not going the full media center route yet, might put a TV card in it later though. Arriving some time next week, can'...

What I done on my weekend

Huge weekend then, we really packed quite a lot in. Started off with a Friday off, though still a commute up to London, we had our trips to Admiralty House and Number 10, through Clare's work.Instead of snoozing on the way up to London I took the opp...

Sophia Clarke

I am looking for Sophia Clarke who worked at the Phoenix Theatre around 1990. I am from Brazil and I was in London studying Drama at the time, and she was a very good friend. We lost touch over the years, but I would very much like to know of her whe...