ho ho ho very festive weekender

Started our weekend at the Christmas of Sorts night at the Whole World Cafe, it was GREAT, though the lady running the cafe was as unwelcoming as ever, perhaps it's her style... The band playing (more of a collective really) were great, I was expecting something folky, but It was more acoustic, popular songs and things, all change instruments and share the vocals and that. BIZARRE highlight of the evening was a song I don't know called "I Am Skeletor" though.

Saturday, Canterbury, got all the rest of our shopping and things out of the way and then went for a brilliant christmas dinner at Canterbury Wholefoods. Good day of shopping, was busy about the place but not too cold at least. Home for a night in, watched a couple of good films, Ghost Town (available now on import) starring Ricky Gervais, really very good indeed, I thought it might be a bit ropey, him being a romantic lead in a hollywood movie, but it really is great. It's him, playing himself again, but I can't get enough of that. Watch it. Also The Other Boleyn Girl, a bit miserable in parts and a little bit imaginative with established historical fact but good too. And filmed locally I think.

Sunday, more shopping, got our groceries and went to Ashford outlet centre, I even got myself some new things to wear, possibly the very first things this year... I just remembered I had a new years resolution not to buy any new clothes this year, ah well I wasn't too excessive. Also wrapped our presents, that was a boring chore but it's done now.

Ooh, won an auction at last, not the XBox I am after, but a Habitat Radius wardrobe. Off to Dagenham tomorrow to collect it... We were after buying another one of these new, and have got it half price instead, hope it's OK. I won't talk you through the whole bidding process stage by stage, he rolled a four and a two, I rolled a five and a three, but it was quite interest. In the final few hours the price had been settled, so I just went plus ten pounds (the next bidding increment) to see if anyone was still in. Instantly I am outbid by one more increment, so I left it until the dying minute of the auction. I thought, I want this, so put in quite a high max bid, expecting the price to go up to and over it. If I don't get it, I'm going to make sure the person who does pays a lot for it... and... nothing. My bid went up only to the next increment, and then no more bids. So I got a good deal (I think) much less than I was prepared to pay, NICE!

I would put more links to similar furniture up here on ebay, but I'm still not allowed back into their affiliate scheme. So I won't bother.

Also watched episode two of Wallander, that was very good, better than the first one. One more to watch, hope they make more. That is up there with House and Life as my favourite TV shows of the moment.

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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 find a more accurate name for him? I've taken so long formulating my thoughts that other people have made the point far more eloquently, possibly everyone has, so I'll not bother. I like "Suffolk Strangler" myself, or possibly "East Anglian ender of existence".
Got more to get off my chest (mostly just regarding TV, podcasts, and Amazon, but am chocka in my last few days of this job at Poke, so it'll have to wait. The free lunch was something cheesey today so had to use valuable blogging time going to Brick Lane to get a wrap and a Quinoa salad. Did not see David Schwimmer who is apparently filming in the area with Simon Pegg (and getting in trouble with the locals for painting over some Banksy graffiti. Banksy originals sell for tens of thousands of pounds now, hard to know how to put a price on something on the side of a chip shop though.
I did see Michael Hesseltine this morning on my way in to work though, just where Spital Square meets Bishopsgate. Not spotted any celebs for ages, rather disappointed to have missed Scarlett Johanson and Natalie Portman in Folkestone recently. Via Stu at startrip.tv.

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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 moving around it hard work.

STORMY PORT IS ON THE DARK SIDE
Eva Simpson & Caroline Hedley

STAR Wars actress Natalie Portman has fallen for the dark side of the Force judging by the reaction of staff at Sandgate Hotel, Folkestone, Kent.

Filming The Other Boleyn Girl with Scarlett Johansson, Nat, 25, asked the hotel to shut the bar at 10pm, then disturbed other guests with 5am yoga sessions.

She persuaded staff to prepare a lavish party for her, Scarlett and crew but couldn't attend at the last minute.

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One of the staff told us: "We were relieved when she left." Nat's people didn't answer our calls...

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