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If my own pictures are too dangerous and controversial for you

Have a look at someone else's pictures of Folkestone. Looks to me they did all of the Triennial things that we did in just the same order, but the differences here are (I think) they visited Folkestone especially for this (so The Triennial is working...

Ricky Gervais XFM radio show MP3s

Do you have any? Been listening to lots of Ricky Gervais recently, old radio shows from XFM, and they're great (if repetitive). Now we want more, and we want earlier. The oldest show we have is from November 10th 2001, which I think was an officially...
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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 ...

Particularly fulsome weekend, with curries.

Splendid weekend, a bit different this time, starting off with a half day on Friday. I headed to Winchester to meet up with some friends, and really needed the extra time to make the most of the night. Clare stayed home watching Children in Need afte...

Fullsome weekender

Well I say full, full of pubs really. Friday night we stayed in, so as to have more energy for going out on Saturday. We had a trip to Canterbury in the day (and you'll never guess where we had lunch), no actual christmas shopping, but we went in a c...

Bidding's going crazy on the Bergerac Oak sideboard

9 bids so far, up to over 650 quid, looks like being not such a bargain for me when you take into account getting it couriered down from Preston. Still no bids on the bookcase but I expect that'll pick up today or tomorrow too. Interestingly (well, r...

Lambert & Weston

I'm looking for the last resting place of the archives of this old Folkestone firm. Does anyone have any ideas?

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...

I knew that

That's in reference to my new bookmark The Passingham Family Blog: May 2006 Archives there is it? I saw our Edward Windebank (son of John Windebank) was born in 1847, so it sounded pretty good to me, but I can't tell if the thing they've transcribed ...

Missing cat!

Yeah, doing my bit for the community help find this cat, look in your shed and that:Missing Black Cat � Folkestone in KentMy 5 month old male cat called mog has gone missing on the 18th October 2006 and i�m desperate to find him.He went missing from ...

MARC BOLAN & T.REX LIVE IN FOLKESTONE

Great review and pictures of a Folkestone T-Rex gig, unfortunately it's all in German. Maybe I will translate it...Got some other Folkestone 1975 gig history from a scanned in poster on that site though, including K.C and the Sunshine Band, Judas Pri...

Rated 4.73/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...

What am I, a scone?

Spent most of yesterday doing doctory things, had to head down to the surgery and register, see a nurse, fill forms, fill something else, etc. Then much hanging around until I could get to see a doctor. Too much of this was in the waiting room. Parts...

Starbucks delayed until July

Further to my earlier comments about Starbucks, today's Herald has it that the store won't be opening until July now... do you think we put them off with the comments here? It also says in the paper that the Ciro Citterio store opposite Debenhams is ...
Rated 6.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

It's good to be back, it's good to be back

Thankyou for the concerned phonecalls and emails and texts, I am all OK, just had a few days away from work and the computer with a bad back, too much housework I reckon. Gave me a nice relaxing time in front of the TV though.Before all that, let me ...

Tardisodes

Extra Doctor Who content according to a press release on Radio Times... will we have to pay for this?In addition to watching 13 new, gripping and exciting adventures - with David Tennant as the Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose - viewers will be given ...

All my pictures at once

See all my pictures at once on flickr leech, or all anyone's pictures - now can you tell me how to sort out all those pictures that I've clearly uploaded twice. Straight off I can see all the Andy and Hazel in the curry house is duplicated, but can I...

Googlebase

Was wondering why there's no google property site, seems there's one on the way... This will knock the socks off my own property map, doh! It's going to cover all information that could possibly be posted online it seems, and will be called googlebas...

Oh my The Guardian says it's happening again!

blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/07/21/incidents_on_the_tube.html - can this all be following this mornings problems? Three tubes and a bus AGAIN? Sit tight and keep your eye on the news everyone. I have spoken to Clare she is at Victoria wait...

Google-maps hack WHACKED!

read more on Slashdot... I think most of the interesting map sites ought to be safe, the site in question was ripping the satellite images (which we poor brits aren't even allowed) and stitching them together to make big deskto background images.Keep...

It's more of an indoor window box

No, I said above, it's four little rows of seeds, one each of Chives, Basil, Mint and Thyme... it's not even really a propagator, it's a plastic tray with a clear plastic lid, 1.99 from Waitrose, including the seeds... I'll post a picture tonight.I t...

Curry!

I done some good cooking yesterday, a curry from all fresh spices and things, it's: the curry recipe I linked to here a while ago and it was really really good. We used various mixed veg, potato, peas, mushrooms and things. ACE! We doubled up, thinki...

Rugby

Our day of Rugby in Twickenham on Saturday was absolutely fab, and I'll be going again (next time we get cheap tickets for a high profile final that is). London Wasps gave a good thrashing to the faves Leicester Tigers, 39-14. We went straight to a p...

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

How to Make a Simple Curry

Interesting authentic but simple curry recipe...

Writing an Extension for Firefox

Liking this guide to writing a Firefox extension, good work duffblog.Done writ two reviews today String Quartet tribute to The Darkness (rubbish) and Worlds Apart (good) the new album from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.Heating went off...

I need this

KISS bowling ballA KISS bowling ball indeed... it doesn't even come with finger holes in it! Get it here, via www.kissonline.com.Very cold again today, but no snow here in London. How long's www.popdex.com going to be down then? It's not as useful as...

Not a ploy at all

They link inwards, looking through the blog archives for previous mentions of that topic... in this instance it can't find anything, but next time I mention search engine optimisation these messages will come up too... not very handy in this case, le...

Why do so many of your links link inward (like that SEO link), is this a ploy? I clicked on it hoping for some handy tips ;)Anyway, I was wondering about that camera - have you bought one or were you just trawling through the engadget archives?Muddy ...

Other people's blogs

It's time for a roundup of things I've lazily ripped off www.casino-avenue.co.uk before heading home, first this piece about metblogs, interesting. I am trying REALLY HARD to read something rude into "soliciting... advertising" but I can't quite make...

1901 Census

Checking the National Archives site I can find no mention of Earls Avenue from 1901 and it seems Bouverie Road West only went up to number 15 at this time, I'd have thought both these roads were much older than this......