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Folkestone Fringe update, actually in time for the mailout this week!

at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:on wednesday 20th and thursday 21st aether flyer play the leas liftaether flyer are still alive thanks to a scientific experiment gone bizarrely wrong, and exactly eighty years on, with an exhibit of their mu...

This weekend's Folkestone Fringe events

friday night at the folkestone fringe, invites you to two previews:at the cube gallery, tontine street:new work by andy tuohypreview starts at 6 - 8.30 pmall welcome to see a continuation of some of the poster modern work seen earlier in the yearat g...

Got an email about the School of Art

From Eamon Everall no less:Hi, you ask for info on Folkestone School of Art , I went there from 1966 to 1967. When i went it was where the multi story car park opposite the junction of Alexandra Gardens & Middleburg Square, now is. More or less oppo...

RE: Poor Jimmy Godden

I am so pleased that someone is concerned about Mr Godden's spate of bad luck, I am sure that Jimmy will appreciate this community spirit - after all Mr Godden has always had the towns' best interests at heart. It is good to know that there is one de...

Windebank

Re: WindebankMy grandmother was Irene Victoria Windebank, born 1897 in Hambledon. Thus far I have gone back to Edward Windebank born 1820 Widley Hants. Can you offer me any links to living relatives or going further back. obviously I can bring her t...

Two completely different properties this week

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id...
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Gah

Just investigating my amazon referral fees, seeing why I've not earned anything in about a year... this month my referral earnings are MINUS four pounds twenty-seven. Seems someone bought this camera last month, KERCHING, that's about a tenner commis...

RE: West is best right now too

well i think generally speaking, the victoria trains tend to go from East - that's the line that goes through faversham. still anyway, it's prob much of a muchness until that high speed link goes in. it's a nice train journey as well - some good sce...

West is best right now too

The wife ideally wants to go to Victoria, but just about anywhere in London is good, and that's good from West. Also the proposed (and I think actually due within the next two years) high speed rail link will be using Canterbury West so that'll shave...

Nearest Wagamama to Folkestone

Just got this from www.wagamama.com, a list of the nearest restaurants to my house, in Folkestone (so most likely the nearest to your house too if you live anywhere near Folkestone. Obviously the Canterbury one is closest, but here are links to the o...
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Hot weekend

Had a good week, lots going on at work, including the aforementioned rowing trip and picnic meeting in Hythe, very nice, then also a Harry Potter themed barbecue at work (I'm still plodding through the audiobook, don't tell me how it ends), and a pub...

Ian Brown's coming to Folkestone

Tour starts in September, Ian Brown, yes the former Stone Roses front man, gigs in Folkestone at the end of October. Full dates are:Newcastle Academy (September 27)Hull City Hall (28)Sheffield Octagon (29)Middlesbrough Town Hall (October 1)Lincoln En...

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Nurse, my sides!

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE !!11!!1!FOLKESTONE EARTHQUAKE APPEALA major hurricane (Hurricane Shazza) and an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Folkestone & Dover in the early hours of Saturday. Its epicentre was in Folkestone. Victims...

Lovely opium, get it while it's hot

Opium is making a comeback, according to The Times, and entering the country via Folkestone. What other Victorianisms are due a comeback? I vote for children working heavy machinery.Lawks, would you look at the size of the ad on that page!...

Spamalot

Spamalot was quite good, not brilliant, best bit for me was seeing Tim Curry in the lead role. It's all the same story / jokes as the film.Went to The Three Greyhounds before the show, very good, small but nice old pub style pub. Four real ales on an...

History in my day

Another bright and breezy morning, just cool enough to stop me walking down town in just a t-shirt, but warm enough not to stop me walking down town at all. I headed the usual route past the courts and the DSS (all the nice scenic points), to what I�...

I went to the Victoria and Albert museum

Here's my picture of the window:The sign next to it does say "From the studio of Hary Clarke"......

Norman Lamont

With a lady, in one of the religious art bits, talking about train times.

Harry Clarke at the V&A

Well spotted Mum and Dad, there is a Harry Clarke at the Victoria and Albert museum:Harry Clarke was one of the great masters of 20th-century stained glass. He trained in his father's studio and at the Metropolitan Art School in Dublin, which gave hi...

Comedienne Extraordinaire

Mistress FrolickComedienne Extraordinaire!Blue Comedy Act (Strictly for over 25s)At Victoria Suite, Sir Stanley Grey Pub, Pegwell Road, Pegwell, Ramsgate, KentFriday 13th October 2006 - 8pmTickets: �5Enquiries to Imaginati Theatre Productions: 01843 ...

Videos of Folketone: More underground creepiness

More creepy underground tunnelling in silence, this time footage of the Victorian reservoir at Crete Road.More pictures and things at www.undergroundkent.co.uk....

Videos of Folkestone: SECRET TUNNELS!

Just been trawling www.youtube.com to see if there's any new Folkestone footage that isn't local kids beating each other up, and there is! Here's some spooky silent footage of the Victorian Channel Tunnel:This is presumably the one that was abandoned...

On my own today

Work's been a bit hectic, my IT colleague is out sick, so I'm fielding all enquiries (though generally just batting them back with "dunno, turn it off and on again"). Also Clare is working from home today, so I had to commute in on my own, I think th...

Always nice to get a mention in the Times

Times Literary Supplement this time no less, a review of DJ Taylor's Victorian Mystery, Kept, set at least partly in Folkestone. Not such a great review as it goes....

A good start to the holiday

Knew there was going to be something up when the driver of the train told us he had to reboot before he could let us on, and same as before, it meant the train was going out of service and I was an hour and a half late for work. Made a nice change to...

2 points about that

1. Related point - Bricks eh? are you sure it's not the vault of a victorian sewer? That would explain the pong, possibly coming through a crack in the brickwerk2. Less related point - I just had a samosa that tasted a bit of vinegar - it was not unp...

Underground London

I am fascinated by holes in the road, not sure why, it's something about being able to see beneath the respectable veneer of the city. There's some work going on on Cannon Street right now, drains I think. Only about 2 feet below the tarmac of the ro...

Oh my The Guardian says it's happening again!

blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/07/21/incidents_on_the_tube.html - can this all be following this mornings problems? Three tubes and a bus AGAIN? Sit tight and keep your eye on the news everyone. I have spoken to Clare she is at Victoria wait...

Passenger's charter

Dumper of a journey in today, something up with the train at Folkestone resulted in the driver not letting anyone on until something (I overheard) had been "rebooted"... we puffed and we pootled as far as Westenhanger (two stops) and then got stuck b...

Hey welcome aboard

How do the times compare then? Going into Victoria sounds like it ought to be faster somehow. I'm finding going in via London Bridge and home again via Cannon Street to be quite convenient, but the actual journey is slower... I'm praying for the days...