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Lovely wedding!

Went to a wedding at the weekend, and it was lovely. Got out of work early Friday, trained up to meet Clare at Auberge, then a step around the corner to The Wellington at Waterloo to get a real ale, then another step around another corner to a pub th...

Portchester weekender

Spent a smashing weekend in Portchester as it was Mum's birthday yesterday. Headed over Friday afternoon on the train, meeting up with Andy on the way in The Golden Lion. Not a great pub but a good evening anyway and some nice pints of HSB and a chat...

Rated 5.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Thanks for the message

I know there must be people stumbling across these pages, it's nice when they say hello.

The video was in Portchester in Hampshire actually, though we do live in Folkestone.

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...

Art prank, or something else?

Someone's put "official looking" signs up around Portchester informing local residents that 600 new homes are to be built on a green field site, the Southern Daily Echo reports. Local councillors claim they are hoaxes, what's going on..?Councillors h...

Alan Moore

Not the barber shop in Portchester, but the comic bloke, Hibbett wrote a song about the time he saw him in a comic shop. Just posting this here to remind me to check it out later really, as I just saw it posted elsewhere.Mark wrote this for FAWM, and...

Drug-crazed arsonist feared alien attack

Best local newspaper headline ever, unfortunately the rest of the story isn't quite as interesting.Great day looking at houses in Canterbury, will report in with map and pictures in a bit....

I knew I'd heard somewhere Neil Gaiman was from Portchester

It says so in this Time article... He's 11 years older than me, so I'm not likely to have bumped into him around the town.

A Reputed Changling

Just found this e-book by Charlotte M. Yonge, a transcription of a book originally published in 1889, so it now seems to be out of copyright. Anyway, posted here because of all the mentions of Portchester, Cosham, Widley, Alverstoke etc, where the bo...

Nice long weekend in Sandgate, Folkestone, Hythe and Portchester

FINE weekend, thank you far asking, good long weekend too, but a bit tiring. Thursday was birthday day (my birthday and also the wife's birthday), and while we were working in the day we'd booked the Friday off so we could have a night out with no fe...
Rated 3.38/10 on Folkestone Gerald

I nearly shivered

I nearly shivered just as I got to work, a brace of fire engines raced down Farringdon Road, all sirens blazing. It was too hot for a real shiver, but obviously thoughts all day are with the events of last year... Just looking back to what I wrote on...

Grandma and Granddad and me!

Just posting this picture up here so it'll show up on the individual pages for Gertrude Clarke (nee Rainey) and Ronald Leslie Clarke. As you were!http://static.flickr.com/54/177890444_7c05ee1797.jpg Me, Grandma and GranddadThat picture was taken at a...

Rated 5.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

School's out for, ooh, a long time now

Going through some old photos now I have a scanner, here's my infant school lineup:[[http://static.flickr.com/59/166633373_32afcd8353.jpg] Portchester Northern Infants School Class 5]]Google have released a web version of Picasa, their photo organis...

Another action packed weekender

The new computer est arriv�! Had no time to play with it yet as it's been such a busy weekend, and so had no time to get pictures off the camera yet, so my weekend diarisation and explanation is without illustration so far, sorry (see pictures by my ...

Bands you've heard of playing... Portchester?

I thought Portchester was like the island in Lost, there'd been some terrible accident there a while back and tour bus sat nav system just could not see it. There's been another accident and Girls Aloud and Status Quo are to play there this August ba...

Rated 5.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Careful with that message board Eugene

The BBC reports that an Oldham woman libelled an MP from Portchester (where I am from) on Yahoo message boards:Ms Williams, of Oldham, Lancs, used a pseudonym to post claims that he was a sexual offender and a racist bigot.Ms Williams had also claime...

Boo... RAH!

I thought with the film coming out and everything, about now would be a peak value time for my old V for Vendetta comics. I've never sold anything else when I maybe should have done (like the first Darkness single), I always hang on too long until th...

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

RE: Nigel Young

Are his folks still in Portchester?

Nigel Young

Just got a message from an old friend from Portchester School via www.friendsreunited.com - they will show me the message but want to charge me �7.50 to reply. So Nige, if you're out there reading this, contact me via here, it's free!Hello mate, long...

Flooding in Portchester

No-one told me about this! Fareham shopping centre closed, oh dear.Lazyish day today, been shopping to get ingredients for tomorrow's house barbecue. We've not met all the people who live in the building, but we're all having a barbie together. Our j...

Inspiration

Decided to sort out a work page today that was taking 15 seconds or so to load, that's not good! This is only on one project, and it's one I'm not working on any more, but it's still not good to know something I've written is so crappy... it's not hu...

Fish 4 homes

Ended up going boozing Friday night and had dinner at Il Bacio where they got my order wrong for the first time - no complaints though, they rectified in super quick time.Got down to Portchester for mid afternoon, it was like there was an internation...

A weekend in Portchester

Was curious about a new road called [map]Caer Peris View[/map] in Portchester, Dad found info about it on this Portchester Castle site explains that Caer Peris means Portchester Castle, it's named after a guy called Perrex who declared himself king. ...

A weekend in Portchester

Was curious about a new road called Caer Peris View in Portchester, dad found info about it on this Portchester Castle site explains that Caer Peris means Portchester Castle, it's named after a guy called Perrex who declared himself king. There's als...