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Why's this Habitat Radius furniture always so far away?

Five drawer tallboy, starting at fifty quid, but it's in Cheshire. Will most likely end up waiting until we move and then buying another one of these new. It's going to be well handy having tall and slim furniture when we move from the big wide flat ...

Looks wet at Glastonbury right now

www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2008/webcam/

Doesn't seem to have updated since half four today though.

UPDATE: They've taken it down now.

Only light rain at Glastonbury

Some rain overnight and a little more on the way at the festival, it says here in the Times, it's hardly news at all really is it. Watched Glastonbury the movie on TV last night, partly it made me really wish I was there, but when I analysed it I fou...

Where'd the weekend go?

In fact where did the week go since I last had something to write about? Had plenty going on, I put it down to trying to learn the guitar, and the tips of my fingers are in far too much pain to type, so sorry if I go a bit slowly.If anyone has any go...

So was that the summer then?

In the interest of being able to read back on this in years to come and reminisce about what was going on, I should have said something about the weather recently I think. But, I blinked, and it's gone now. Got a barbecue lined up for this Saturday, ...

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...
Rated 6.3/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...

Great book, slight repost

I've got this book and it's great, a full history of all the drinking establishments in Folkestone and surrounding villages. And here's a rare copy on ebay, starting bid 99p.Splendid weather today, think the storms have moved North, it's bright and c...

Weather report part two

Ferocious rain woke us both up in the night, a proper downpour again. Clare got the fear that the weather might have resulted in our pilot light going out (it happened before), which would mean waking up to cold showers, so I got up to check on it. W...

Disgusting rain here

Just in case anyone turned up by mistake looking for a weather update, it's raining really hard here.

"Sadly disappointed with La Tavernetta"

No, I'm not disappointed with La Tavernetta, I've never been there, though I've only seen bad reviews from other people over on FG, but I am sadly disappointed that that was the last contributed comment on this site, I'm BORED of seeing it over in th...

Bad weather on a good day

Severe gale warnings across the country today, the wastelands of the north get it worse, but it's pretty windy here, was very noisy at home. But hey, not only is it the best day of all today, but it's also profit share day. To the pie shop!...

Flood-tastic

Here's today's walk to work:That's not a stream or anything, just rain water.Operation Stack still in effect, lots of people were held up on their way in here today....

The weather is still in full force

And Operation Stack is in effect. So if you're thinking of driving to Folkestone, forget it.

Hope I can still get a lift home off someone OK.

Apple Airbook

There's a new ultra portable mac to be announced todday I think, some speculation here on Wired, see how everyone has to comment without reading the article? (Cue replies here, missing the point of this post, if there was a point, and there were any ...

Ooh, we got snow already

Should be quite a slippy slide home tonight. I'm GLAD, Clare is off work sick today, this is sure to affect the trains... If I go out and make a snowman tonight, I'll be sure and post up a picture.

Been quiet for a few days

No I've not been out on the larry-large every day over christmas, been a bit under the weather actually, though that's not what's kept me off the computer. When I'm not at work and Clare's home too I never get to sit in front of the computer, she's p...
Rated 6.38/10 on Folkestone Gerald

York (being the fourth part of my holiday)

York is great, a lot like Canterbury, but seemingly with more pubs. Our hotel was the birth place of Guy Fawkes, and had sloping floors and four poster beds, proper historic. It practically butts up to the cathedral, not sure you can tell from my pho...

Folkestone literary festival kicks off

We've got tickets on the way for a few events including David Starkey and Terry Jones, get yours at www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk/:We have carefully put together nine days of eclectic and exciting world-class authors and performers to entertain you. Th...
Rated 0.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Ooh lightning strike!

No trains from Folkestone for the forseeable, because of a lighting strike over night, we do get all the action here don't we. They can't put on any replacement busses until after the school run as they're all in use. I'm getting a lift in today so I...

Blackpool (being the third part of my two week holiday write up)

Have you been to Blackpool? DON'T EVER EVER GO THERE, man alive, it was the worst place I've ever been to. A few people gave me odd looks when I said I was going to Blackpool for a couple of days as part of our grand tour, but only one person got clo...

RE: Scrap the licence fee

Tosh.So a company they use to make programs spiced up a show, it's hardly earth shattering. And so they messed up a couple of competitions - the technology for those things is quite flakey and no-one was hugely out of pocket like they were on Richard...

Scrap the licence fee

The BBC are a bit annoying at the moment aren't they? If they're not punking the the queen with crazy video pranks, they're ripping off the public with phoney competitions. Why not get rid of the licence fee, and replace it with a subscription for BB...

Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)

Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu...

Quite Interesting

Went back to QI, and it was ace, glad we made the effort. I had the afternoon off, and got away on time, so I had hours to kill before the show. I went to the National Gallery, and saw some paintings, it was nice. Then I wondered around Soho grazing ...

Bad Weather?

It's lovely up here.....

Marcus Brigstocke is a funny guy, a bit over exposed at the minute though - he's becoming the new Rich Hammond.

Me too

I thought we were going to meet Stephen Fry and be his friend and everything. We did see Marcus Brigstocke, and some other actor who we can't quite place while we were walking around, but it didn't really make up for it.Heading off now for another af...

Top weekend

Great weekend visiting, eating, and drinking, very nice indeed, cheers. Not such a bad journey down to Fareham as it might have been, considering it was the bank holiday and traffic was supposed to be monstrous. Normal holdups around Hindhead and the...

Well of course they're on youtube

Just found one of my favourite bands The Fighting cocks on youtubeThe beauty of their videos and their CDs and their performances is that each one is a strictly limited edition, as the lineup of the band changes every thirty minutes.Very foggy this m...

RE: Rabbits and finches

It was uncharacteristically bright up here last night too - I blamed the weather (or Tony Blair, or the elves).Love Speckled Hen, but only generally drink it in the comfort of my own home. It's one of my "feet up relaxing" real ales.In other news, do...

Glastonbury

The year Pulp replaced The Stone Roses as headliners, along with Oasis and The Cure. Great weather....