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The Holloways play Leas Cliff Hall 28th November

The Holloways play the LCH, get tickets here. Not yet sold out, no need for ebay (yet). Support from local acts Underground Heroes and Seven Storey Down, full press release to follow.More dates nationally, at cosier venues than we get here, guess Fol...

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Drinking and driving

A ten man bike powered mobile bar. Looks like something they built on Scrapheap Challenge recently:From www.pubcrawler.uk.com...

Lost!

Not Lost the TV show, I haven't actually thought about that since watching the fairly rubbish end of series four and writing that subject line. No, actually lost, some people I met yesterday who did not know where they were.My walk from work to the s...

LONE STAR COMEDY CLUB � FRIDAY 27TH JUNE 2008 AT 7.30

Following a triumphant show on 31st May The Lone Star Comedy Club returns to the Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe Garrsion in Cheriton. The line up for the new show will be EARL OKIN, JAMES SHERWOOD, compere MATT PRICE and a newcomer.Earl ...
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Folkestone Harbour Festival 2008

This years Folkestone Harbour Festival 2008 will take place on July 19 2008. We have a full day program lined up starting at 10am in the morning right through till 9pm when we close with a spectacular firework display in the Harbour. Events include...
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Boo, pissed off

Just had our viewing of the house we were going to see tomorrow cancelled, the vendors have received a full asking price offer yesterday. We hadn't seen this house yet (apart from online), it was right on the street with no real garden to speak of, a...

Rye Harbour

Do you really mean "Folkestone Harbour" the map directs you that way???As I would like to see the "Last Golden Arrow" I do hope you mean 'my town'!!

Regards

Gerry

Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

See this ebay auction, loads of really good scans of Harry Clarke illustrations there, worth checking out out just for those, even if you don't bid... In fact, please don't bid, because I might.There is a much later reprint available, that's too high...

RE: You sound proper hardened!

Nothing went wrong, far from it. I've really enjoyed working here and the people are great (really unusual for a bank). I'm just seeking new challenges elsewhere - and this is going to be a huge challenge. Oh, and following the money....

"Good news, there's a man with a saw now"

A train's fallen across the track somewhere between Folkestone and Ashford, this has messed up Clare's journey in, and might still be there to affect mine... what do I do?

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 ...

RE: Boom shake the room!

Here in Deal, it woke me at 8.20am. It was like a gust of wind had got in the room - the wardrobe doors rattled and that was about it. Once I noticed the bedroom window wasn't open I figured it must have been an earthquake and went to sleep. Only lat...

Nice pic

Bah, I forgot to do the final challenge before I went away last week. Oh well. I once won a prize on Popex. Didn't acually get a physical one, but the mention in the email & the promise of one was more than enough!How is the rurual working working ? ...

Jesus and Mary Chain playing festivals this year

Well, they're playing Coachella, that's in California, think it was the first one the reformed Pixies played at and also the festival that offered the Rage Against the Machine,Smiths five million dollars. Does that lineup bode well for UK festivals? ...

Longboard marathon visits Folkestone

Not along The Leas I hope, where skating is OUTLAWED:British Longboard Team Prepare for the Challenge of a Life TimeThe stage is set for a team of longboard skateboarders from Devon, UK to attempt a World Record Breaking marathon. In July 2007, the B...

Did you know Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson were staying in Sandgate?

Before / during I mean, we all read about it in the Herald after they'd checked out... La Portman wasn't the most favoured guest of The Sandgate Hotel apparently. From The Mirror, don't go there though it's covered in microsoft adverts that make movi...

Local District Nurse to walk Great Wall of China For Charity

One of your local District Nurses for the Hawkinge community, Jacqui Buxton would like to enlist your help in the battle to fight breast cancer. This terrible disease touches too many people's lives, every month causing more than 1,000 deaths in the ...

Oh dear what's happened to the style then?

Been playing with PhpGedView while I had some time to play with PHP (which might help me with work) and genealogy things(which probably won't). It's "skinnable", but only sort of, it needs some hacking to integrate it in this site, and in the process...
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Drought, in the fields, the fighting's just begun...

How irresponsible are Amazon right now? They're advertising this 'domestic' high pressure washer (400 litres per hour) and this upright high pressure washer (530 litres per hour) on their home and garden homepage. I went there looking for things to a...

It's Not Easy Being Green

I quite enjoyed this programme last night, if you have not seen it here's a book of it, it's about a family who obviously have a shitload of money becoming an eco commune. Generally, posh hippies make me want to kick the telly in, but this was quite ...

Why's it always Rik Waller?

In Kent Children in Need - BBC appeal will be broadcast from Medway on Friday 18th November. The county will be awash with fund-raising events to collect cash for the BBC Children in Need appeal.On Friday 18 NovemberIn Medway the Black Lion Leisure C...

Fallen Grounds play The Harp on Saturday

Just having a play with MySpace and I found a gig at The Harp Club for Saturday, Fallens Ground and two other bands are playing... Enjoy if you go, we are going on a bit of a crawl around town, will be in Chambers at some point. OK, so you don't know...

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Here's that Creative Players news in full

The Creative Players is an amateur dramatics group forming as part of the creative renaissance of Folkestone. At the moment we need help, idea's and feedback from like-minded souls who believe as we do that Folkestone can sustain, indeed heartily sup...

Howard what are you thinking of???

In this report from the BBC, Michael Howard has challenged Monsieur Chirac to EAT IN FOLKESTONE!!!"I'd like him to come to my constituency, over to Folkestone and Hythe, and I'll take him to some restaurants that will match anything he can see in Fra...

Folkestone on the telly!

Good to see Folkestone on TV, on Relocation, Relocation last night... more in the Folkestone Forum... Wednesday night's a great night for TV, with that, Grand Designs, and Desperate Housewives. We're getting Sky+ installed today, though I don't know ...

Doctor Doctor please

I thought Doctor Who was great this week, a trip back in time to 1869 and Charles Dickens, as played by Simon Callow. We went to his one man show a few years back all about Dickens, funny to see that crossing over with the Doctor.www.scifi.com says B...

Looking forward to The Tears

We're off to see The Tears tomorrow night, if the tickets ever show up... got a call from SMS who are delivering them today to say they're going to try again tomorrow... USELESS BASTARDS! Anyway, Nic went yesterday to the warm up in Oxford and says:i...

Manic Tuesday

Had a long weekend in Folkestone, but I have returned to chaos... www.popex.com, www.record-producers.com, www.channelfly.com and other work sites all down... not big issues to fix, but annoying... one of them the power lead had fallen out the back....

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Let's see those hands in the air...

The Darkness tonight at Brixton Academy, looking forward to this, haven't seen them play since the Barfly Music Passport show, this'll be only the third time this year... really wanted to see them again, couldn't face going to Wembley, so was pleased...

Also Gutted writes

Amazing how much you miss thouse little gems of unlisenabble music, or some quartet of snotty teenagers garage band when you have to listen to a diet of the fricken chillie peppers and Van frigen hallens "bounce" which is a travesty to music. I hate ...

Astoria

They did a 10 kebab challenge on stage and Daphne and Celeste were there. And so was I!
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