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Oo-oo-oo, we're going to the zoo-oo-oo

Just had a meeting at Port Lympne, at their conference facilities, as we needed a lot of people in the room at the same time. Nice place, good to see the house, I've not been before.Some monkeys were whooping all through the meeting, very distracting...

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Zoo Thousand and Hate on the BBC

Here. Main things to be said are:* The organisers miscalculated cash flow* They had to cancel acts* Port Lympne stepped in, writing out a check for Ash there and then to ensure they'd go on stageGood on Port Lympne! I can't believe the same organiser...

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Zoo thousand and HATE!

The Zoo Thousand Port Lymne festival sounds like the festival was awful, no-one really has a good word to say about it at work. At least two of the headliners did not play (but as the headliners were Athlete and Dizzee Rascal) that's not necessarily...

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First review of Zoo Thousand and Eight in

Here at www.safeconcerts.com, sounds a bit chaotic, more rumours of cancellations than actual cancellations possibly though.More here, seems Lethal Bizzle was promoted to replace Dizzee Rascal, not a bad call I wouldn't have said, though one was a Me...
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Kent Festival weekend

Why would they organise Booshstock and zoo+thousand for the same weekend? They're both fairly close (Hythe and Tonbridge) and obviously aimed at the same indie kids, this is like putting Glastonbury and Reading on the same weekend.We're not going to ...

Zoo9 tickets!

Just saving a space on the site for next year! Was the festival a success? I hope so, and I hope it returns.Ticketmaster have tickets for this year's festival, hope this link is still valid for '09.Look here: zoo thousand tickets / zoo9 tickets / z00...
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Who will buy my Stereophonics tickets

Slight repost from Folkestone Gerald and my blog / forum there:I can't decide whether or not to go to Stereophonics next Tuesday, we have messed up a bit in arranging a lie in the following morning so it's not really convenient now. Do you want my s...

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Very cheap VIP tickets for Zoo Thousand!

Look here cheap vip tickets for zoo thousand / zoo8 / z008 / whatever, less than cost price, a lot less in fact! You could get a bargain here...Speaking of which, I can't decide whether or not to go to Stereophonics next Tuesday, we have messed up a ...
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Free parking at festival for car sharers

Free parking in some overflow car park or other if you have three people in your card it says here. Also a shuttlebus will be taking you to and from Westenhanger and Ashford stations, I hope that's free but I really don't know.I should be going to th...
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Free tickets for Zoo Thousand

You can get in free to ZooThousand and other festivals if you work as a volunteer... www.festivalvolunteer.co.uk for more details. Let me know how you get on.If you don't want to you can buy tickets here, still some left. Seen lots of special offers ...
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Are you sure Hazel didn't register in both your names?

I wouldn't think the BBC would spam out invitations for something like this. We both registered (in our own names) though I didn't go for the competition aspect of it, so I won't get some researcher from Radio One seeing if I'm fun enough (and young ...
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Zoo Thousand

This music festival crept up on me The Cribs, Athlete, Funeral For A Friend and loads more (fairly small) bands are playing at Port Lympne this August. Can you get me free tickets?Hmm Mark Ronson is on the line up page but not on the homepage does th...

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Today's walk around Canterbury

OK, not all walking, we got the bus to Canterbury, and the GPS kept the signal all the way as you can see... if you zoom in on Canterbury itself (which I'll try and do automatically I think) you can see where we walked. got some pictures to upload to...

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 ...

A tour of our earthquake damage

In case an insurance assesor wants to see them, and I know Dad does: Mostly high up shots of the ceiling, not really a nice way to view our flat, but at least there's no danger of catching me partially dressed in a mirror or shiny kettle. Zoom i...

Boom shake the room!

Well I suspect you've all been frantically refreshing wondering when I'd report from this morning's earthquake! Amazingly it was three and a half hours ago now, the power was off until just recently so there wasn't a lot I could do, no internets, and...

Sandgate Dolphin on YouTube: DON'T WATCH IT

OK, you can watch this footage of "Dave", the Folkestone / Sandgate dolphin on YouTube, but don't go out harrassing him to film any more, please.At least this footage is taken from the shore, with a zoom. Seriously, don't go chasing him in a boat. Ge...

Good weekend

Rain seemed to play quite a part... Friday, raced out of work not quite in time to go to the Andrew Davies talk, part of the literary festival, but in good time to get some chips, and eat them in the rain on my way to The Grand Hotel where the talk ...

Transport updates

Journey times have been much better since Monday. If I race out of the door here at six, I get a train at Cannon Street that gets me home without changing for eight fifteen. Bit boring travelling on my own, but I'm plodding on with these book, and re...

RE: Weird traininess thing going on

I like the idea of zoomr, but I couldn't be bothered moving my pics from flickr.

Weird traininess thing going on

Got on the train at stupid o'clock as usual this morning to hear an announcement apologising for the late running of the service. Assumed the announcement was the mistake, but NO! Our train had been replaced by a late running earlier number that was ...

Spaceman, blow up

Saw Google's map of Mars today, and wondered if they'd done a map of the moon. I must have missed the announcement of this, love the imagery when you zoon right in...

French speaking baboons at Port Lympne

According to BBC's 100 things we didn't know this time last year, zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been raised in French zoos. The same feature also teaches us th...

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Satellite spy pictures of the UK

Woo, Google Maps is up to date with satellite photos of the UK now, you can zoom right in... this update has caused a slight problem with my own interactive map, something's stopping it initialising properly, but once the map's redrawn (just pick a n...

Brown magpies, eh?

Can't make head nor tail of those pictures... you need zzzzzzoom or summat. My guess is they might have got lost on their way to Ireland... see here...http://www.birdresearch.dk/unilang/raritet/leucism/leucism.htmhttp://www.birddiary.co.uk/discusshom...

Expose Club = Penny Theatre

From today's discussion on mrgig.com:PuddingMushroom says "I think they played the Penny Theatre", Mikos says "they definitely played the Penny", and then we're diverted into other bands that played (The Cranberries and Reef (twice) Ash, Skunk Anansi...
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There is one upside to having mice

It means you dont get rats. I was talking to our zoologist yesterday and he said that mice have no bladder control/muscles and so when they have to go they just go. Bit like an F1 driver then.

Lessons for the day

Got to figure out why onBlur() isn't working on pulldown menus on the popEx control panel in some browsers, should I be using onUnSelect() or something instead? Also, the amazing disappearing table borders on the calendar. Everything validates now, b...

Sir David Attenborough

Yesterday, opening the Kimono Dragon exhibition

Local News

Quite liking this, especially their zoom in map thing, even if they don't have Folkestone on there... They have Hackney, that's how I found it, they're syndicating this blog (via my RSS) in their gossip section......