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A handy guide to how tall stuff is

imgs.xkcd.com/comics/height.pngFrom xkcd.com. Wow this makes the blog content nearly as long as the ad-stuffed sidebar! Still haven't heard back from Ebay about their new affiliate scheme. I'm chucking free links to them left right and centre to them...

Splendid weekend of comedy, food, double dinners, and everything

Great weekend. As an intro though, specifically for the people from work who mentioned they had found this page recently - at no point did I drink too much and become annoying, I am a fine upstanding member of staff. Probably you can go back to work ...

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,...

F-I-R-E I-N E-S-C-O-N-D-I-D-O

Has there been a fire? And did Gate 28 reopen? We were not in that part of town all weekend.Here is video of a fire in Escondido:That's Escondido, California though, not our favourite local restaurant. Yes, still my favourite, went to Sandbanks this ...

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Hectic day at work today

I think it's all going well though. Still playing with Google Chrome, not sure I will choose it over Firefox though, where is the "home" button? Also I like all the plugins in Firefox, how long before Google Chrome introduces something like that? The...

My computer is dead!

Bah, turned it on today and I'm getting the blue screen of death with a unmountable_boot_volume error. Thought at first it was the backup drive or an IPOD plugged in, but no, it's the one and only hard drive that is knackered. Apparently I might be a...

Beer festival at the Ship this weekend

See you there all weekend! Looking forward to this a lot.

Going to try out the quiz for the first time in ages on Tuesday too, be afraid if you are competing against us...

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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...

This weekend's Folkestone Fringe events

friday night at the folkestone fringe, invites you to two previews:at the cube gallery, tontine street:new work by andy tuohypreview starts at 6 - 8.30 pmall welcome to see a continuation of some of the poster modern work seen earlier in the yearat g...

Nice weekend, quiet weekend

Nice weekend. Changed our Friday night outgoing plans and had a quiet one in. Saturday went to a 92nd birthday tea for Clare's gran over in Tenterden, home for a brief siesta, and then out to The Guildhall with visiting family and friends. Took a bri...
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Has anyone seen Clare?

And I assumed she just headed off to Barcelona as planned! Someone's got her! Can you read that phone number?I'm posting a lot more this weekend. Can you tell I am bored? I've even done some cleaning and some DIY, and for TWO walks around town....

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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Lovely wedding!

Went to a wedding at the weekend, and it was lovely. Got out of work early Friday, trained up to meet Clare at Auberge, then a step around the corner to The Wellington at Waterloo to get a real ale, then another step around another corner to a pub th...

Folkestone

Why is it all folkestone girls are short and fat with thier bellys hanging down past the top of thier skirts!! and if you want to make yourself feel ill then go to the party bar at the weekend where the doorman are more attractive than the females th...

Haircuts are for girls

There's one at Moors Valley which is about 30-40 minutes from here, sort of Bournemouth way. Free weekend! MASSIVE party in the flat I think.

The George in Rye July newsletter

We've been rather quiet on the newsletter front lately, having been nominated for UK Newcomer of the Year in the CATEY Awards, the Oscars of the Restaurant and Hotel world (sadly, the ceremony was not in LA). This award has previously been won by the...

It was DA BOMB, I hardly panicked at all

Is there one near you? Let's go, I have a free weekend when Clare is in Barcelona at the beginning of August.

Free food at Pizza Express

There's a voucher on handbag.com this week for a free meal in Pizza Express. We might well have gone there anyway, nice!Oh also I sold my Stereophonics tickets at last (at cost price)! A night in! UPDATE: The voucher is no use at the weekends, so loo...
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Kent Festival weekend

Why would they organise Booshstock and zoo+thousand for the same weekend? They're both fairly close (Hythe and Tonbridge) and obviously aimed at the same indie kids, this is like putting Glastonbury and Reading on the same weekend.We're not going to ...

Folkestone Triennial

Don't forget the art works are still on display, at least until September. The launch weekend events may be over, but everything's still there for you to see and enjoy. See my brief review of the day with pictures and map....

RE: Sellindge Music Festival!

Hey there,I was at Sellindge Music Festival this year and had a great weekend, really nice small festival. Did anyone see our green camel at the back of the main field?I got some photo's of the festival here if anyone is interested... http://www.fest...

Portchester weekender

Spent a smashing weekend in Portchester as it was Mum's birthday yesterday. Headed over Friday afternoon on the train, meeting up with Andy on the way in The Golden Lion. Not a great pub but a good evening anyway and some nice pints of HSB and a chat...

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the most glorious holiday destination in all England

Man alive we've had a lot of press over the past couple of days (we as in Folkestone, rather than me personally), it's been great. The weekend of Triennial events itself was good and there was a real buzz about the town. I'm not entirely sure that it...

Pictures and a report from the Folkestone Triennial launch weekend

My report and pictures from the Triennial launch, wasn't it great?

Roast potato and garlic bread

No, not "roast potato" and "garlic bread", but actually bread made with garlic and roast potatoes, can you imagine such a thing? I got some at the weekend from Karl's Good Food.It was nice, subtler than I was expecting, great bread though. The place ...

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I must have something more interesting to write about than php?

Um, no, perhaps not.I got a new hard drive at last, after all the problems I had with the ibook and having to send it back, I didn't rush into getting another backup job, but I saw a bargain at Maplin Seagate 500GB FreeAgent, and it seems to be worki...

Where'd the weekend go?

In fact where did the week go since I last had something to write about? Had plenty going on, I put it down to trying to learn the guitar, and the tips of my fingers are in far too much pain to type, so sorry if I go a bit slowly.If anyone has any go...

Rents SOARING!

Saw a feature on BBC Breakfast this morning about how that blame-for-everything credit crunch is leading to a rise in rental values - people who can't afford to buy have to rent, and there's still a limited number of properties available, so rents wi...

Our actual first day in Key West

I realise that my previous post about our first day in Key West a) didn't contain any info, b) had things from our second day on the map, and c) has slipped down the page and no-one will read it. So here at last is the first part of our journey. Clar...

Main (our calendar)

Pulp and Tindersticks, just popped along for a bit, got free tickets from someone. Not sure which day of this weekend......

Camber Sands

Belle and Sebastian etc, the forerunner to All Tomorrow's Parties. Got very drunk....
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Reading Festival

My first gig with nme.com, I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them)....