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Lone Star Comedy, now with added German standup

The line up consists of Henning Wehn, Liam Mullone, Jim Smallman and a newcomer�s act.Henning Wehn is the German Comedy Ambassador to the UK. He calmly and clinically debunks the idea that Germans do not have a sense of humour.Henning does this by ...
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Got an email about the School of Art

From Eamon Everall no less:Hi, you ask for info on Folkestone School of Art , I went there from 1966 to 1967. When i went it was where the multi story car park opposite the junction of Alexandra Gardens & Middleburg Square, now is. More or less oppo...

New Cross Murder Map!

Just in case you're wondering how close the double murder and firebombing was from my old flat (even though I left there years ago), I just knocked this up for Mum and Dad, to give them a bit of a point of reference.View Larger MapIsn't google maps j...

An opportunity to learn @ the University Centre Folkestone for free!

Step up to Business is a Short course (18hours) which will provide an enjoyable and lively look at business and enterprise.Learners will learn the basic of business. Ideal for those considering a start-up or just to improve job, and promotion prospec...

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University Centre Folkestone Open Day Saturday 10th May 2008, 10am - 3pm

Hmm bit short notice to be sending this press release out isn't it? Including Finance Advice & Talks and the chance to win cinema tickets! The University Centre Folkestone offers full and part-time courses in the creative industries, including:* Pe...

House hunt

Two houses today in Canterbury, different parts of town, but with things in common. For starters, both too expensive really at 250k each. If the market really is tumbling we might be able to make a cheeky offer on just about anything we see now thoug...

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...

Another house hunting trip to Canterbury

Saw three places today, first one before lunch was at Forty Acres Road, Canterbury and was a three bedroom (just about) but with plenty of room downstairs. Good sized lounge, downstairs bathroom, and a nice kitchen that was open to a big conservatory...

Second house-hunting trip around Canterbury

Saw five houses today in Canterbury, have a map with details of the things we saw. Clare's out tonight with Jenny, so it's a prime opportunity for me to do some fiddling about with maps and things, so sorry if it breaks. Not that you'll be on the com...

There was me worried about embarrassing myself...

We have a couple of vacancies on the programming team at work, all the applicants have been given a PHP test to do, and some of the scores had been a bit weak, so the bosses wondered if the test was too hard, so they gave it to all the existing staff...

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...

Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)

Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu...

Quite Interesting

Went back to QI, and it was ace, glad we made the effort. I had the afternoon off, and got away on time, so I had hours to kill before the show. I went to the National Gallery, and saw some paintings, it was nice. Then I wondered around Soho grazing ...

Cheers for the tip

Are they pre-approving purchasers then? I heard they've been doing more and more unusual things to try and make sure it's young people and students who go...

The Gay Train

New video of a song by my friends MJ Hibbett and the Validatorsvideo is by Rob Manuel, of b3ta fame.All stop watching it, so it streams more smoothly for me... More Hibbett updates, courtesy of his newsletter:ITEM! After months of hard work (honest!)...

The Folkestone People's History Centre to hold 'Dig for History' event

The Folkestone People's History Centre, run by Canterbury Christ Church University, is giving Folkestone schools and local people the opportunity to learn more about the early history of Folkestone.A three-day history weekend workshop, called "Dig fo...

Folkestone Road in Walthamstowe, not Folkestone

From The Guardian regarding recent things;At least three of the men arrested on suspicion of being involved in a terror plot to blow up a series of transatlantic planes had converted to Islam, it emerged.Ibrahim Savant, from Walthamstow, east London,...

Double squirrel update

Update to recent squirrel news (whereby a squirrel stole a student's ID), said squirrel felt remorse and returned the ID, possibly in response to all the publicity on the internets. Also did you see the squirrel that disrupted the Arsenal game last n...

The Earl Grey, still going!

Popped in The Earl Grey for one too on a bit of a crawl around town on Saturday evening, it's changed style a bit since I last went in there, it's very studenty indeed, though not menacing at all as it has been at points in the past.The real beer see...

Portentous

Strange air about the world today - it's a fabulous day here in London, but the light and atmosphere feel a bit WEIRD. Could be that I've headed into town half an hour later than normal, or an actual armageddon could be on the way. Came into Cannon S...

George Sassoon obit, hmm...

George Sassoon, who has died aged 69, was the son, and only child, of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, and attained distinction in a number of interesting fields, read all about him in the Telegraph. He's mentioned here for a comment he once made about ou...

Lone Star Comedy Update - it's a double header

REGINALD D HUNTER (returning to the club after a revelatory headline performance last year, Reginald D. Hunter is the epitome of American cool, often described as the 'Samuel L. Jackson of stand-up'. His material, his stage presence and all round ge...
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Brian May

Went to Canterbury on Saturday to try and get a PSP for Mrs Pauly, and we saw Brian May in Dixons. I think he was buying a printer. He's very tall and was a bit scruffy. Don't know if he thought he was being a bit incognito in his long studenty coat ...

Up to my elbows in computer bits

Fitted the new hard drive to the computer, though not got windows recognising it yet... got that final piece of missing info today, so by tonight I should have 120gig of space, rapidly being filled up with downloaded content! FINALLY I can backup my ...

Lone Star Comedy for June

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the good weather. I have details for the next Lone Star Comedy Club - there may, or may not, be material about yoghurt so be sure to bring earplugs if you find such dairy based products offensive. On the next club ...
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Pub golf

As part of my round up of the weekend, as I am reminded different bits of it at different times, here is the order of drinking of the pub golf in Exeter on Saturday... we played some real golf first, some pitch and putt anyway, and I thought I did av...

"When the rest of the track is finished in 2007 it will be possible to commute from St Pancras to Folkestone in 35 minutes"

That sounds a bit quicker than I'd heard before, but so says propertyinvesting.net... it also adds:Folkestone is a nice town generally � no really bad areas. Down by the harbour it�s got "further to go" than other parts of the town. Much of Folkeston...

Bernard Butler

We were in the Phoenix artists bar last night before The Tears gig, precisely because it's the kind of place where you might spot somebody... And LO! There was Saint Bernard Butler, dressed like a student in a big coat and hat. I nearly snapped him o...
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Old Street Art Pranks

Saw a wacky situationist prank at Old Street this morning, a breakfast table set up on top of a bus shelter, with bowls, cups, plates, milk jugs, the lot. Snapped a pic but can't get it off my phone until I get home. It's got a mention in London By L...

Barry Leslie CLARKE

I am looking for a Barry Clarke who grew up in South Africa and went to the natal university in Pietermaritzburg. He was a keen photographer and went to the USA, first as an AFS student and then later to work. If any one knows him, please contact me ...