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The plot of a Christopher Brookmyre book

OK so this story doesn't have a plot that we know of so far, but each bit of information that's eeked out of nowhere by the press leads the imagination in different directions, like a good book. Of course, this is not a book, these are people's lives...

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...

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 ...

Where we walked yesterday

Not very far, but if you click through you can track me yesterday. We got the bus to Canterbury and the GPS was turned off on the bus so the whole route isn't plotted, still playing about with my mapping. Just posted some photos of our walk to Capel ...

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 7.35/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Folkestone property boom!

Well sort of. First off this bungalow that I pass every day on my walk from Westenhanger station to work has sold within two weeks of the board going up, that seems pretty speedy to me. I thought it might do, it's not all that to look at, but it's pr...

Ripper indeed

Been plotting some writings regarding the Ipswich prostitute murders, getting a bit annoyed at the press calling this guy "the ripper". He's not ripped so much as a sheet of toilet paper as far as we know, he's been suffocating in Suffolk, can no-one...

Belated weekend roundup

Weekend start sort of badly, and then sort of worse, and then actually got going really very well indeed. Train home hit some kind of delay, caused by some kind of delay on another train. That's as much detail as we've come to expect in the non expla...

Events on this day

I'm guessing that all the anniversaries listed here are not actually right, that's too many for just one day. What might have happened is dates have been entered in a UK format, and been flipped to US format and then defaulted to the first of the mo...

Thursday morning roundup

Just caught the end of something on BBC Breakfast, advice on blogging and work, or why not to blog about work, something like that. A few sites / posts were held up as bad examples, I wasn't one of them, it was all fairly basic stuff:* Don't be posti...

A journey into the unknown...

Went to Ashford yesterday, for a day out, as Clare had the day off and we wanted to go bowling. Man alive, it's rubbish there... I'm kind of glad we hit the very worst high street type parts of the town first, as it meant that Ashford grew on us as t...

Folkestone Road in Walthamstowe, not Folkestone

From The Guardian regarding recent things;At least three of the men arrested on suspicion of being involved in a terror plot to blow up a series of transatlantic planes had converted to Islam, it emerged.Ibrahim Savant, from Walthamstow, east London,...

And more video

The unaired pilot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, all the same plot as the aired first episode so far, but WAITAMINUTE THAT'S NOT WILLOW!!!Via Pop Candy, cheers!...

Squirrel stamped to death and set on fire

Don't worry! It wasn't a real squirrel! Oh, it was a person. Marcia Squirrel, 56, was stomped to death at her home in April 2005, and her body was set on fire. On Monday, jurors convicted her son, Ruben Warledo, 37, of one count each of first-degree ...

PlotBlog

Nothing but a bunch of hoes, it's Stu's allotment blog, gone live today. Good luck mate!Just checking another blog from the same stable / plot whatever, Bayraider and some excellent auctions - check out signed Star Wars stuff, a smelly cat, Princess...

Last night's TV

SO, no time to watch LOST at all last night! River Cottage, Jamie Oliver and Grand Designs all had new series, and all are faves of mine... Well, they said it was a new series of River Cottage, actually it was just a rehashing of previous series, wha...

Bonfire night - anyone know what's going on?

What's going on for Bonfire night in the Folkestone area? Who's putting on a good display, anyone know?

It's a Saturday, and it's the 400th anniversary of the gunpowder plot, there must be some good stuff somewhere...

I bet it's a plot by neighbourhood watch

Back to normal

Our trains have been delayed either coming in or going home, and yesterday's central line was too busy to get on, I missed three tubes in a row. So we're back to normal! It feels slightly more tense today, being just one week ago that it all kicked o...

Damn I had a really good headline in mind for this

SO, went to Ireland at the weekend, and it was very nice! Here will follow my little review of where we went and what we did, and things I recommend and things I don't.Friday morning we had a wedding meeting at Lympne Castle, TOO EARLY, and too many ...

Yahoo! Mindset

How long until Google do this? It's "show me my search results but with less of the commercial stuff". I think they've been plotting it for a while, it's a weird one. It's more honest results with less of the sneaky result manipulation. Will keep a c...

family

THIS MAY NOT HELP YOU MY FATHER WAS CHARLES HENRY WINBOURNE BORNE DECEMBER 9 1910 WILSON COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA HE MARREID DOROTHY MAE HOWELL MY SISTER FAYE ANN WINBOURNE WAS BORN 1943 I WAS BORN APRIL 11 1950 JACK CARROLL WINBOURNE MY FATHER I...

Titanic Conspiracy

Well, the theory of a plot to switch the Titanic with it's sister ship, the badly damaged Olympic was news to me... Saw a programme on it on Sky the other night, but I should have guessed, this is a very old story... See also The Ship That Never Sank...

Last post for the week

Been let out early today, nice!Today I'm reading Be My Enemy, the new Christopher Brookmyre, so far it reads like the plot for a computer game, but I'm liking it.Something's kicking off on Manor Road, there were loads of police cars at the junction o...

was on tv last night

the next one's plotted already

Darkness Music Passport review

If you are Clare's brother and you're still smarting that we went to The Cure on Friday, then please turn away now... gone? Right, we also went to see The Darkness last night, doing another Music Passport show, and probably it was the highlight of th...

Fortean Times

Also, bought the Fortean Times today for the train journey, for the first time in ages... not sure if I'm more cynical now, but it seems far crapper than I remembered.Bought Living Etc too, we're plotting out cushions and curtains and that, how mushy...

Belle and Sebastian tickets

Lets see if I can do the same trick I've done with The Darkness, by reposting all Belle and Sebastian dates up here as they go on sale...Belle And Sebastian @ USHER HALL, EDINBURGH (Sun 14 Dec)More tickets on my ...

Two task lists today

One for lunchtime:Buy an exercise bike - Lillywhite's number is 0870 3339600, seems to be an old number listed all over the web, including their own website, bit slack... ALSO, 118 118, got their number, they offer to "connect you", then all the time...

Another task list

Up early to sort of fix broken noisy toilet - go Pauly the Plumber!Making a way of having "bands" in the popex database, without people being able to trade in them, or them being listed anywhere... starting with this guy as a test...popex admin, dele...