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Susie Dent's coming to Folkestone

Susie Dent of Countdown's "Dictionary Corner" is coming to Folkestone as part of Folkestone Literary Festival 2008. At least I hope it's the same Susie Dent. We watch Countdown every day on 40D, so this will be nice.She has a regular publication call...

Stencilling

I like this, a stencil from Onion Bag Blogger, after Banksy. That's a potatoshop effect rather than a realistic stencil you could print and cut out out I think (see the fuzzy edges), but nice.How to stencil, stenciling 1000 video, Use GIMP to make st...

They properly out did you

Now, if my GCSE Double Award Science serves me right, Richter's very handy scale is logarithmic. Which means that the quake in Lincolnshire was TEN TIMES the magnitude of the one you had. Just think how much bigger those cracks could have been....

Local Heroes and Hevy Music

Local Heroes @ The Leas Cliff HallFriday 16th NovemberTickets �10Doors at 7:00pm After a long hiatus, Folkestone�s Leas Cliff Hall will be hosting a local music night on Friday 16th November, but this time it�s different. The event, Local Heroes, wil...

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Nurse, my sides!

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE !!11!!1!FOLKESTONE EARTHQUAKE APPEALA major hurricane (Hurricane Shazza) and an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Folkestone & Dover in the early hours of Saturday. Its epicentre was in Folkestone. Victims...

Boom shake the room!

Well I suspect you've all been frantically refreshing wondering when I'd report from this morning's earthquake! Amazingly it was three and a half hours ago now, the power was off until just recently so there wasn't a lot I could do, no internets, and...

One of our tanks is missing!

From Kent News:A radio controlled scale model of a German tank has been stolen from a garage in Folkestone.The 1-16th sized half-track military vehicle from World War Two is painted in camouflage colours and has the numbers 007 in white paint on the ...

The simple pleasures of the unemployed

As expected yesterday, we can't have a water meter, we're on the second floor and they can't get access to our stopcock from the outside. We should be taken off emergency rip-off water rates now anyway, which will save a bit of money. Also, in Sainsb...

No, really dancing...

I was loitering in Debenhams doorway on Saturday, waiting for the wife who was inside, when there was a spontaneous outburst of dancing in the street. It was promoting some dance classes going on at the Pavillion. If that video's not embedded in this...

The much smaller scale map you mean?

Yeah I have, nice.

The Heights - Jamaica Beer Eyes

And video number two from work, it's The Heights and "Jamaica Beer Eyes", also on www.bestbeforerecords.com. Tour dates are as follows:22 Feb 2006 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms23 Feb 2006 Oxford Zodiac24 Feb 2006 Leicester Princess Charlotte25 Feb...

The Morning After Girls - Hi Skies

Before my recap of a great weekend, some videos as promised from work. First The Morning After Girls and "Hi Skies". They're new and hot from Australia, and signed to our label, Best Before Records... They have a few CDs available on import, The Morn...

What did you have for lunch?

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Copt point

Heres a Multimap link. The aforementioned dock runs from beneath the Martello along to below Capel. The remains of the buiding can be seen from the harbour though they're not easy to get to as there are signs warning of cliff erosion.www.multimap.com...

mushrooms?! TUT

do they take you to a higher level of consciousness?anyway, how good are the album releases next week? cant stop listening to dont phunk with my heart - that's a bad tune.my main news is that after 92 hours of viewing i have FINALLY finished watching...

More San Francisco tips

first of all, are you staying at the W Hotel? If not, it is next to Moscone and the bar in there called XYZ is really great - and the hotel a nice place if you can stay there. Around the downtown area, for lunch especially an SF tradition is Tadich's...

Paula Radcliffe

Ew, did she stop for a poo or what? Top result on Amazon is these glass scales. Why are they glass? What does it have to do with Paula Radcliffe? These images are upsetting me now....

St Pancras to open in 2007

According to this Article in The Times...The three additional platforms to the east are reserved for new fast trains from east Kent which will use the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link line and cut commuter train times by up to two thirds...Fingers cross ...

Rated 8.51/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Wedding venues in Kent

Following a link from the London By London mailout about civil wedding ceremonies, I have found a list of approved venues in Kent... not sure who they're approved by, the list is shorter than I thought! We might start looking this weekend, to give us...

Happy New Year

Damn forgot to listen to radio 6...Despite rumours of the new house being built on BRW being marketed for three quarters of a milliion, it's good to see I'm still being sent properties like this 2 bed cottage by the harbour for less than 100k... Hope...

Pogues Headline Fleadh

The Pogues (Shane MacGowan / Spider Stacy / Jem Finer / Terry Woods / Phil Chevron / Andrew Rankin / James Fearnley / Darryl Hunt) headline the London Fleadh this year on Saturday 8th of June, and you can get tickets here...Also appearing are...