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Nice weekend

Had a good weekend, reasonably uneventful but just NICE! Intended to start off with a quiz at The Grand, but they called Clare on the day to say it was cancelled, for a private function. Good job she had called to reserve a table and left her number,...

David Devant top ten

Just browsing last.fm to see if anyone's mentioned the David Devant gig at the 100 Club (and they haven't), but I see this top ten of their tracks most listened, by users of last.fm. Who have installed the software, that monitors what you're listenin...
Rated 4.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Simple Simon's: GONE!

Simple Simon's has reopened as "The Parrot". Still very similar, less independent beers on the bar and more Youngs, as that's who owns it now. Had a brace of pints there yesterday afternoon and it was very nice. They now sell bottles of beer at the b...
Rated 5.21/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Why's this Habitat Radius furniture always so far away?

Five drawer tallboy, starting at fifty quid, but it's in Cheshire. Will most likely end up waiting until we move and then buying another one of these new. It's going to be well handy having tall and slim furniture when we move from the big wide flat ...

Strange time travel

As previously possibly mentioned, I am listening to old Mark Radcliffe radio shows, on the mp3. Just listened to the last ever graveyard shift show on Radio One, and then (in exactly the wrong order) the first ever graveyard shift show from 1993. And...

Could be dreadful

A review of the US remake of Spaced. Well, a review of the script. It's being remade without the cooperation of the original creative team of Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson and Edgar Wright, seemingly it went ahead without their knowledge. Simon Pegg ...

Boo, pissed off

Just had our viewing of the house we were going to see tomorrow cancelled, the vendors have received a full asking price offer yesterday. We hadn't seen this house yet (apart from online), it was right on the street with no real garden to speak of, a...

Yes I got it, keep looking on the torrents

It took FOREVER.It's not that great quality and probably not as funny as you remember, but as well as everyone else it does have Howard in it, which I didn't remember (well I didn't know who he was at the time)....

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 ...

RE: Rugby, RESULT

You need a PVR. I have been watching Saturday Kitchen on days that are not Saturday for a long time now, could not live without my Freeview PVR!

Weekend good

The rugby was obviously attrocious, what a poor start to the weekend, but hey at least it was the weekend from that point onwards. As usual we headed to Canterbury, Clare on a slightly earlier bus than me so she could do some shopping, then Wagamamas...

Party weekend

Bah, I wrote this out once already and closed the browser by mistake... had kind of a busy week at work, that's got to be a good thing, but it's meant not really any time for writing here in the day time, and some days have seen me concentrating on s...

Windebanks of wield.

in a recent article in HGS magazine someone tracing north hants windebanks mentionned the wield lot, and stated that they were supposed to be a colateral branch of the windebanks descended from Sir thomas Windebank of Haines Hillhurst, Berks 1538 - 1...

Long weekend

Been away a long time (apart from my little post this morning about wireless things) and we fitted quite a lot in really, felt like a proper holiday since my complaints about QI.Our afternoon out in Canterbury was good, though not absolutely everythi...
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Good drinking weekend

We checked out the annual Easter Ales Festival at Chambers on Thursday and Friday nights, and have had a couple of nights back at the flat playing pool and listening to my new Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs collection, and had a day in Canterbury (inclu...

More Fighting Cocks

Their new single "Hang Up The Moon", it's brilliant:We're in the midst of a fabulous weekend, had a great time up in London yesterday afternoon and evening, and have had an equally splendid afternoon in Canterbury today, including lunch at Wagamama a...

The BBC's non commercial (ha) so they've not missed out on anything

It's good what the Guardian did I reckon...I had lots more to post about Hot Fuzz, but then I got distracted by things... brilliant that Cate Blanchett played his girlfriend and you never see her face, and that there was no love interest shoehorned i...

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...

Roundup

Interview yesterday was good, but it's a small company and I'm still after more money than they can afford. It wis great to work on interesting projects, but I'm still holding out for a higher wage too right now, we have a mortgage and want a new hou...

An email, from Dave the Dolphin:

Being a dolphin is not easy these days, everyone's after us and the fishermen catch more and more of our fish each day, it's hard to make ends meet.I've just had a huge council tax bill too, even though it's my second home' so as well as my website w...

David Walliams, greased up in Folkestone

David Walliams is swimming The Channel tomorrow, from Folkestone beach. Good charity fund raising work funnyman feller! The Sun has more...If anyone has any episodes of the Comedy Central TV show "Asylum" (I think it featured David Walliams, along wi...

Back into the routine

Properly tired today, like a zombie, but I did sleep well last night, and was tired when I got up, and did sleep again on the train, so everything's back to normal now...Some links for the day, from chums:Hot Fuzz a new Simon Pegg / Nick Frost thing ...

RE: Man I feel like a... KERBLAM!!!

He probably said something along the lines of 'Blow me...' and she just misunderstood.

SOS Folkestone

On a technical level, I don't like www.sosfolkestone.info but that could be just me being a nerd. They do have a little forum there with a lot more activity than this one, and some more info on Roger Dehaan's masterplan for Folkestone, including some...

RE: Could well be the guitarist who directed the music then

Hi Guys,thanks for coming to the gig..hope the jazz didn't put you off! Re. your query..(Just to clarify, certainly not snarky)In terms of the jazz thing- not so much a new direction. I've actually been singing jazz for coming on ten years (ooh, just...

RE: Matt was the drummer wasn't he?

yeah matt was the drummer.
Originally there was Matt, Simon, Stuart, Chris and Johnny, then Matt left and I can't remember what the new drummer was called.

Matt was the drummer wasn't he?

Did Simon take over after Matt left?

simon white

he was the drummer in menswear, oh yes, so he does count as a celeb right?He is very nice and is now the manager of bloc party so i guess he's done quite well for himself....

Simon Pegg

He was also at Louis XIV at the garage. He was wearing a hat.

Lone Star Comedy

The final Lone Star Comedy Club until the Autumn is on Saturday July 16th! Appearing on the evening will be Chris Lynham, Tom Price, Simon Douglass and the fabulous MC Danny James...All usual ticket information applies - see www.lonestarcomedy.co.ukT...
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Gulbenkian Theatre

The new comedy by Stewart Lee, directed by Owen LewisWith Simon Munnery as Queen Elizabeth I and Miles Jupp as Sir Walter Raleigh....
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

The Lyceum Theatre

Fairly bland sets of Tony Ferrino and possibly Alan Partridge, but warm up came from Simon Pegg.

Portsmouth Guildhall

Festival in Guildhall Square, Firework Party, The Rubber Bishops (Bill Bailey + Kevin Eldon, Midway Still, Alan Parker, Atilla The Stockbroker, Eat, Back To The Planet, Mega City Four, Trevor & Simon +...