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Blanket box frenzy

Habitat radius blanket box, over a hundred quid already and there's still a week to go. I really like them, and apparently they've stopped doing them, but it's too far away for me to collect. So feel free to bid......

RE: How to dismantle an Omega pool table!

Dom will store it for us in his garage, when it's in bits it won't take up that much space. Might need to rent a van just to get it that far though! I have taken the lid off the table, but put it right back on again, not quite ready to move it yet...

We got snow this morning

Wasn't expecting that at all, looks lovely but not so helpful for our first day back at work of the year. Just seen Clare off to the station, she's shuffling carefully towards her train right now and hoping it's on time. It's apparently not going to ...

How to dismantle an Omega pool table!

Aha an answer to my question of the other day:Thank you for your email, the dismantling of the Omega table is very simple. If you look at the base of the table you will see there are a number of holes if you put your hand inside you will be able to l...

RAINEY

Re: RAINEYhi - I'm Des Rainey, Auckland, NZ - I relate back in time to the Samuel Boyd Clarke who left Kilrea and went to Canada. I have a sister Eileen but don't know if this is the same Eileen already in the Clarke family tree ore a new one!!!! An...

Elton John support acts

Elton John has announced his support acts for those new years shows at the O2, they are Will Young, X Factor Winner Alexandra Burke, The Overtures and Sealife, plus Heart DJ. Never mind though, you should still buy tickets if you have not already.Elt...
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Bumping into friends in London

KERRAZY, went to London last weekend and it was smashing, and we bumped into good chums Ralph and Linda and baby Astrid in GAP, what are the chances of that? OK, we had already arranged to meet up with them earlier that day at Pain Quotidien, which w...

Work is underway at Escondido

Walked past last night, it's not ready to reopen yet (looks like half the kitchen is in the dining room) but work is definitely underway... hopefully it will be open again soon.

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Clare's hotpot recipe

Making this for tea tonight, thought I would share the recipe with you...* Heat the oven to 180.* Chop a biggish onion into thinnish rings and start to fry gently in large pan.* Meanwhile make a start chopping up your veg - 2 or 3 large carrots, some...

Cure tickets on sale at 9am

Get them here, good luck. An initial batch already sold out through www.nme.com, guess that's why there are no advanced tickets that we O2 customers are supposed to get.Maybe see you here later if we miss out, though I'm not sure we'll pay much if Th...
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RE: MediaMonkey

Hello Pauly, long time no speak/hear. Hope all is well, you have probably tried this already in your infinite techno-know-how but if (in iTunes) you select all and right click on a track you can choose to "Get Album Artwork" and it should get all tra...

I knew it

AC/DC announced extra dates already...Tue 14/04/0918:30 The O2 London, GB AC/DC Find TicketsThu 16/04/0918:30 The O2 London, GB AC/DC Find TicketsTue 21/04/0919:30 M.E.N. Arena Manchester Manchester, GB AC/DC Find TicketsThu 23/04/0918:00...
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Great weekend (belated weeekend-o-blog)

Great as in really good and great as in just enormous, fitted quite a lot in. Clare was out in London Friday night, and had got a hotel so I was planning to meet her later and we'd stay over so as to have a nice Saturday there too. Work is busy as ev...

Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmail

Dug out my wireless camera, to see if it could be used as a web cam - it's good quality, with sound, but more for security monitoring than sitting in front of the screen and talking. Don't think it can, but it's good to have it up and running again a...

New nephew!

Bit slow off the mark on this one, but our new nephew Luke Mahon was born to Kevin and Guiselle late on Friday night. This was in the US of States, so we didn't find out until the next day, have seen some pictures already and hope to get moving video...

Come on over to my place

Do you want to come and work here? See our recruitment video.I'm positive they said they would ask permission before they featured us, I think I'm pretty definitely featured there in the bit where they say WE'RE LOOKING FOR A WEB GURU!!! That's not m...

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008

Where is the lineup? www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk has nothing yet. I really should have already joined up as a friend and be running their site for them shouldn't I...Names I've heard so far include Will Self, John Hegley and a return for local lad Da...

Origami luggage labels

How has no-one already made such a thing? Looking for an origami pattern for a baggage label and I can find no such thing, can you help?

Folkestone fringe

at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:this saturday and sunday cathy lomax and alex michon present l'estranger:where paranoid plup fiction drives out fact...a dishevelled young stranger arrives at a coastal town. his clothes are strange and his f...

Folkestone Fringe update, actually in time for the mailout this week!

at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:on wednesday 20th and thursday 21st aether flyer play the leas liftaether flyer are still alive thanks to a scientific experiment gone bizarrely wrong, and exactly eighty years on, with an exhibit of their mu...

AC/DC want YOU for their new video

Enter here for a chance to be in their new video. It's in London, on Friday. If only it was at The Leas Club in Folkestone where I already have plans to be for a friend's leaving do, I'd be THERE!...
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"if you haven't already had a peek, go up to the bayle and have a look at window, no 13 the bayle."

That was the advice from www.folkestonefringe.com, so I did.Probably not worth making a major detour for. Perhaps it changes every day though and brightens up someones walk to work, from the niceness of The Bayle into the grimness of the town centre....

Free bottle of wine at Pizza Express

Register at www.filippoberio.co.uk, got to promotions, and enter the "you can only possibly know this if you actually bought a bottle of olive oil" code "VINO EXPRESS". Ping, a free bottle of wine next time you go to Pizza Express. We already got our...
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PHREADZ podcast

Well sort of. Some of the content from Kosso's phreadz.com is also available in MP4 format, which is kind of handy for ipod video. So I'm hoping this feed will populate my ipod with the fascinating conversations these guys are having. Only some of th...

Sounds intriguing, something to do this weekend

From the Folkestone Fringe website:DIY fringe:if you haven't already had a peek, go up to the bayle and have a look at window, no 13 the bayle.I've got to go and have a look at that haven't I? I hope it's not a trick. The Bayle is a street in the ol...

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Just too late for the weekly mailout (again) Folkestone Fringe

From Folkestone Fringe:at georges house gallery:the king and I, private view friday1st august, 7pm30 years after his death, elvis presley still has a firm hold on the collective imagination and this still continues to grow as younger people discover ...

Folkestone Triennial kicks off today

It's a big old public art thing going on throughout the town. They've revamped the station especially it seems, so if you are a London art knob and you have not already made plans to head down to Folkestone tonight on the train, what on earth are you...

Textarea line numbers (using javascript?)

Someone must have done this? I want to add line numbers to my input box, so as to make the inline editor I'm using at work a bit more like a real editor... any ideas?UPDATE: codepress looks quite good, doesn't work exactly with the jtageditor I'm alr...

St Tropez of culture

Does this sound familiar? From Saturday's GuardianPierre Cardin, the millionaire Paris fashion designer and businessman who has spent millions restoring the castle, is trying to turn the village into a "St Tropez of culture". After establishing his o...

Folkestone Triennial: Tales of Time and Space

Are you ready for the Folkestone Triennial? There's a launch event down at the harbour on Saturday 14th, at the Ark Cafe... what is that then? Did it not burn down? I will have to investigate (where it is, and what is there now, not the actual myster...

Wembley Stadium

And probably either JAY-Z or Girls Aloud supporting. You lucky people! SOLD OUT already (the band, if not the tickets)....