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<p>What's the rule when the headline is a question? I was thinking "that must be a mistake", <a href="/gig/2025/02/10/stewart-lee-vs-the-man-wulf/">my gigography type stuff on this page</a> says the last time I saw <a href="/wiki/#stewart/lee">Stewart Lee</a> before the Man Wulf show on Monday was in <a href="/wiki/#2015">2015</a>! I know there was a long time when no-one went out and there were no shows, but surely not?</p>
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<p>Mostly I have been doing less <a href="/wiki/#exercise">exercise</a> this month anyway, but on our big trip to <a href="/wiki/#canterbury">Canterbury</a> by <a href="/wiki/#garmin">Garmin</a> watch <a href="/wiki/#battery">battery</a> died. So, I lost some activities there. Was quite a bit of walking around, though less than there would have been on a nicer day. It completely failed to charge overnight and the next day too though, so I'm missing about a day's worth. I've managed to reset it now and all is good and it's tracking again. Still not actually walked anywhere though.</p>
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<p>Really good show at the Marlowe <a href="/wiki/#theatre">Theatre</a> last night, man alive did he look like he was <a href="/wiki/#work">working</a> hard though! He talks about his poor health and then he's sweating away for parts of the show in this giant <a href="/wiki/#wolf">wolf</a> costume. He has a proper go at other comedians, this is to be expected these days though. Really enjoyed it. Thank you very much for this great present the ife...</p>
<p>Hey we went to the bar in the Marlowe, does this mean it counts for <a href="/wiki/#febrewery">Febrewery</a>..? It might, I will have to line it all up. We went to a few different places.</p>
<p>We got <a href="/wiki/#train">the train</a> to <a href="/wiki/#canterbury">Canterbury</a> in the end as <a href="/wiki/#bus">the bus</a> was going to take an hour and twenty and we'd have to get <a href="/wiki/#train">the train</a> back anyway. It was fine but not cheap! Not as expensive as <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> of course, but still £33 return for the two of us. We headed out about 9:30, it would have been a bit cheaper to wait until 10:00</p>
<p>We had a breakfast in <a href="https://www.refectorykitchen.com/">The Refectory Kitchen</a>, quite near the station, as Clare had heard a rave <a href="/wiki/#review">review</a> of it. I had peacamole. Guacamole but made with peas. It was really nice, on toast, with chipotle <a href="/wiki/#mushrooms">mushrooms</a>. We wondered if we should have anything as we had an actual lunch lined up at 1pm, but we knew it wouldn't be a big lunch. I liked the food but I found the little naggy notices about The Refectory a bit offputting, saying don't queue for <a href="/wiki/#toilet">the toilet</a>, don't approach the counter, and we want your table back in on hour. Not sure about all of that.</p>
<p>The rain was horrible and cold. We broke up the walk from the Refectory up to Fenwicks at the other end of town by going in <a href="/wiki/#charity">the charity</a> bookshop and got a couple of Agatha Christies. Then on to Fenwicks to try and look at lights, but they've shrunk that department right down, they had nothing. So to our first pub.</p>
<p>We went in The Old Buttermarket, and it was nice and quiet. Nice to just sit and chat, in a quiet pub, when everyone else is at <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a>. </p>
<p>Next to The Ivy for lunch, because we are posh like that. It was very good, good quality, a bit dainty. They did put <a href="/wiki/#vegan">the vegan</a> starter on the set menu for me so we both had that, tossed Asian vegetables. Then I had the rendang <a href="/wiki/#curry">curry</a> and Clarehad some <a href="/wiki/#pasta">pasta</a> dish with a ragou made of three kinds of meat. We did not drink any booze here!</p>
<p>After lunch to another pub, another walk in the rain to The Parrot. It was OK, we sat near <a href="/wiki/#fire">the fire</a> and played cards. I ddid not remember it being a <a href="/wiki/#shepherd/neame">Shepherd Neame</a>. If it wasn't so much of an effort to go anywhere else (<a href="/wiki/#dolphin">the Dolphin</a> was strangely closed) I might have kept looking. But it was fine.</p>
<p>After this I might have to think and come back to this. We went to The Thomas Beckett and found there were some board <a href="/wiki/#game">games</a> to play. I picked out one called something like Reminisce, it's all old <a href="/wiki/#film">film</a> questions. VERY STRANGELY there was a wallet stuffed with cash in the box! Clare thought it was a prop at first, but no it was real. I say stuffed, there were a few notes in there, more than one twenty I think, plus all the cards and ID. We handed it in at the bar, and they said they tracked the owner down via Instagram.</p>
<p>Still raining when we left but we wanted to go to The Pegasus Taproom. It was better for Clare than for me. I thought they had <a href="/wiki/#real/ale">real ale</a> on before, they did not this time, but a big choice of keg <a href="/wiki/#beer">beers</a>. One in there, it was very quiet and a bit cold still. That is a real theme to my complaints these days isn't it? I'm always cold. We were even sat near a small <a href="/wiki/#fire">fire</a> there but it was more decorative than warm.</p>
<p>Next to The Unicorn, which did have better <a href="/wiki/#beer">beer</a>, and they were doing food. Yes, third meal out of the day! We got a couple of ten pound dinner and a pint deals, very good. I had vegan <a href="/wiki/#chilli">chilli</a> over chips, Clare had a <a href="/wiki/#pizza">pizza</a>.</p>
<p>Next to <a href="/wiki/#theatre">the theatre</a>, which I already covered, then back to the Pegasus after the show, then <a href="/wiki/#train">train</a> home. Taxi back from <a href="/wiki/#folkestone">Folkestone</a> West.</p>
<p>And that is all the writing up I will do on this for now I think! So how does all that affect <a href="/wiki/#febrewery">Febrewery</a>..?</p>
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<li><a href="/wiki/#ship">The Famous Ship Inn</a>, <a href="/wiki/#sandgate">Sandgate</a> <sup><abbr title="We didn't mean to but all the cafes were full.">1</abbr></sup>.</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/#potting/shed">The Potting Shed</a>, <a href="/wiki/#hythe">Hythe</a> <sup><abbr title="AND I went back again on Friday. I am not putting any effort into this challenge, revisiting the same pub twice.">2</abbr></sup>.</li>
<li>The Old Buttermarket, <a href="/wiki/#canterbury">Canterbury</a>.</li>
<li>The Parrot, <a href="/wiki/#canterbury">Canterbury</a>.</li>
<li>The Thomas Beckett, <a href="/wiki/#canterbury">Canterbury</a>.</li>
<li>The Pegasus Taproom, <a href="/wiki/#canterbury">Canterbury</a>.</li>
<li>The Unicorn, <a href="/wiki/#canterbury">Canterbury</a>.</li>
<li>The Marlowe <a href="/wiki/#theatre">Theatre</a> <sup><abbr title="Yeah cheating here, but at least I did have a drink here.">3</abbr></sup>.</li>
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<p>If I were to include pubs Clare has been to, if we could tag team this, we would also have</p>
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<li><a href="/wiki/#beer">The Beer</a> Shop, <a href="/wiki/#folkestone">Folkestone</a>.</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/#pullman">The Pulman</a>, <a href="/wiki/#folkestone">Folkestone</a>.</li>
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<p>Really not expecting to complete this in <a href="/wiki/#2025">2025</a>.</p>
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<li>We didn't mean to but all the cafes were full.</li>
<li>AND I went back again on Friday. I am not putting any effort into this challenge, revisiting the same pub twice.</li>
<li>Yeah cheating here, but at least I did have a drink here.</li>
<li>New Irish pub on The Old High Street.</li>
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<p>Our <a href="/wiki/#day/off">day off</a> day out with <a href="/wiki/#comedy">comedy</a>, restaurants, and pubs went well yesterday. Despite <a href="/wiki/#weather">the weather</a>. The boys survived without us too, at least they have responded to phone messages this morning from grandpa's house, and got themselves off to <a href="/wiki/#school">school</a>.</p>
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<p>Not getting up at 6:30 as per would have greatly improved this <a href="/wiki/#day/off">day off</a> I think. Rudely awoken by the alarm, we got the boys breakfast and we could be ready to go out by 9am. It's started cold though, and I don't think it's going to improve much over the day. Aiming to get <a href="/wiki/#bus">the bus</a> out today.</p>
<p>They've changed the menu on <a href="/wiki/#restaurant">the restaurant</a> we're going to though. When Clare went the set menu was about half <a href="/wiki/#vegan">vegan</a>, with lots of choice. Looking again now there's one main and possibly no starters, so maybe it was a <a href="/wiki/#veganuary">veganuary</a> special. I can still get a good range of food just not in the more bargainous fixed price <a href="/wiki/#deal">deal</a>.</p>
<p>We're going to do a little browsing at home interiours too while we're out, I want some new wall lights. This will list about five minutes though until we get fed up and realise we don't agree on anything.</p>
<p>One more <a href="/wiki/#coffee">coffee</a> before we go I think.
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<time datetime="2025-02-09T21:37:20.000Z">Sun Feb 9</time>
<p><a href="/wiki/#supergrass">Supergrass</a> and <a href="/wiki/#bluetones">The Bluetones</a> at <a href="/wiki/#joiners">Southampton Joiners</a>, <a href="/gig/1995/02/09/supergrass/">thirty years ago today</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.supergrass.com/">Supergrass are touring again</a>. They're doing a UK tour in May, then dates in <a href="/wiki/#australia">Australia</a>, then back in the UK for the end of June, hmm... they're playing <a href="/wiki/#margate">Margate</a>, but that might be a bit of a faff for us. Then <a href="/wiki/#bristol">Bristol</a> on 25th of June and they're free for all of <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> weekend.</p>
<p>I said to the young people at <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> who are going to <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> I thought it was likely they'd play. But they'd not heard of <a href="/wiki/#supergrass">Supergrass</a>, bah.</p>
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<time datetime="2025-02-09T20:27:05.000Z">Sun Feb 9</time>
<p>Going to <a href="/wiki/#canterbury">Canterbury</a> tomorrow for the day, and I thought we'd get in a few pubs. <a href="/wiki/#thomas/tallis">The Thomas Tallis</a> micropub is not going to be one of them then, it's closed on Mondays.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.pegasustaproom.com/">Pegasus Tap Room</a> is open, from 5pm. They have a live <a href="/wiki/#beer">beer</a> menu on that website, it's hard to read though. For the day of our visit it looks like this:</p>
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<p>Maybe we'll go back to one of our old haunts like The Parrot or <a href="/wiki/#dolphin">The Dolphin</a>.</p>
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<p>I got <a href="/wiki/#android">the Google Pixel</a> 8a. It is much like my previous phone, <a href="/wiki/#android">the Google Pixel</a> 6, except a) smaller, and b) not broken. Yes I got a new case for it and it fits, and will hopefully stop it getting smashed like the last one.</p>
<p>New phone fits better everywhere, being about 1cm or so smaller. It fits in the phone pocket of my <a href="/wiki/#running">running</a> shorts, which is ideal.</p>
<p>Still not quite got it set up right, I don't think it is <a href="/wiki/#scrobbling">scrobbling</a> all the music I listen to. Hmm, <a href="https://www.last.fm/user/PaulyPopEx">in fact I just checked</a> and while it knows what I'm listening to on the radio right now it's not logging it yet.</p>
<p>The last one still <a href="/wiki/#work">works</a>, I will keep it as a backup. I might get another <a href="/wiki/#sim/card">sim</a> for it and take it to <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a>.</p>
<p>I got some good use, good value out of the old phone. <a href="/2023/10/03/ive-had-my-phone-for-two-years-now/">I was thinking of replacing it in 2023</a>, that was before I broke it.</p>
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<time datetime="2025-02-09T18:20:39.000Z">Sun Feb 9</time>
<p>Not been a super busy weekend. Yesterday we went to <a href="/wiki/#harbour/arm">the Harbour Arm</a> as there was big screen <a href="/wiki/#mario/kart">Mario Kart</a>, but it was <em>freezing</em> out so didn't enjoy that much. The boys did, especially T2. While we were there we took a walk up the Old High Street, and went in a new comic shop. They had some nice things in there, bought a graphic novel for each of the boys (T2 is into manga now, and T1 got a GCSE-adjacent one) and a Usagi Yojimbo collection for me. I suspect it must contain some of the same content I already have, I will compare later.</p>
<p>Today not walked anywhere, but went to <a href="/wiki/#tesco">Tesco</a> to get some food for tea. Got some free potatoes, sweet potatoes, and spinach, so that's all contributing to tonight's dinner. I got a free chicken pie, but it wasn't big enough for them to share, so that's going in the freezer and I bought other pies. And that's tea.</p>
<p>Watched new <a href="/wiki/#tv">TV</a> show Paradise last night after the boys had gone to bed. It's good, but we thought it was going to be a <a href="/wiki/#crime">crime</a> and really it's kind of dystopian. Clare thinks she has been tricked a bit. We will carry on.</p>
<p><a href="/wiki/#day/off">Day off</a> tomorrow!</p>
<p><em>Light rain and a moderate breeze, 4 - 5℃.</em></p>
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<time datetime="2025-02-07T08:17:18.000Z">Fri Feb 7</time>
<p>After <a href="/2025/02/05/no-more-cheap-trains/">what I said last time</a> I saw the friend on my morning <a href="/wiki/#train">train</a> into <a href="/wiki/#london">London</a> who had told me about the cheaper earlier slow <a href="/wiki/#train">train</a> to <a href="/wiki/#london">London</a> Bridge. She also said it wasn't as cheap as it has been, <em>but</em> she got a cheap ticket for <a href="/wiki/#train">the train</a> I was on, two weeks in advance. Have to keep an eye on this, they are still out there.</p>
<p><a href="/wiki/#work">Work</a> went OK, few people off through <a href="/wiki/#ill">illness</a>. Did all my <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> remotely despite having paid eighty quid and travelled three hours to go to the office. Got an avocado <a href="/wiki/#buddha/bowl">poké bowl</a> for lunch and it was quite good, had it before. Generally <a href="/wiki/#london">London</a> felt less busy than it has done but <a href="/wiki/#leather/lane">Leather Lane</a> market was busy at the peak time I was there. And hey I just figured out how to type an accent on this keyboard, alt-e and e to make é.</p>
<p><a href="/img/2025/02/_2025-02-07-possibly-more-cheap-trains-signal-2025-02-06-122957_002.jpeg"><img width="480px" height="853px" alt="Avocado poké bowl lunch, £8" src="/img/2025/02/_bw-2025-02-07-possibly-more-cheap-trains-signal-2025-02-06-122957_002.jpeg" style="max-width: 100%" /></a></p>
<p>I was early for my <a href="/wiki/#train">train</a> so had a quick look in Hamleys at the station to see if they had <a href="/wiki/#pokemon">the Pokemon</a> cards T2 wanted. They did not but I paid over the odds for some others that I knew would be a good second place. Hmm should that be <a href="/wiki/#pokemon">Pokémon</a> actually?</p>
<p>Normal <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> day today, no tech improvement day experimentary. Got some stuff to do on this secret project, this phase has a deadline of Monday 17th, so we need our bit to be all wrapped up this week.</p>
<p>It's cold again today. Might walk before <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a>, but that's not going to make me feel any warmer is it? I might put my <a href="/wiki/#electricity">electric</a> heated chair on even before the 2pm <a href="https://share.octopus.energy/cute-elm-487">free Octopus Energy later</a> <sup><abbr title="Join Octopus Energy here and we both earn money.">1</abbr></sup>.</p>
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<time datetime="2025-02-05T18:58:57.000Z">Wed Feb 5</time>
<p>Looked again, still nothing. That cheap one a couple of weeks ago might have been a fluke, or part of the big <a href="/wiki/#train">train</a> ticket sale I suppose. There are none for the next month. <a href="/2025/02/03/there-is-no-advanced-ticket-train-bargain-this-week/">That 6:20 train that I saw</a> is of course the slow <a href="/wiki/#train">train</a>, going to <a href="/wiki/#london">London</a> Bridge. So that would save me eight or nine quid, but that's not a lot for the extra time I would need, and then I'd still have to get across from <a href="/wiki/#london">London</a> Bridge to <a href="/wiki/#farringdon">Farringdon</a>, so that's probably another single on the Thameslink, eating more into the saving.</p>
<p>I'm back on the 07:30 tomorrow, ticket booked. Hope I <a href="/wiki/#sleep">sleep</a> well tonight.</p>
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<time datetime="2025-02-05T18:26:44.000Z">Wed Feb 5</time>
<p>Replaced the batteries in another motion sensor, our house is now basically <em>self aware</em>. This is in the hallway, this is the place you need these guys. It's particularly useful in a three storey hallway like ours, so the sensor upstairs can turn on the light on the top and middle floor and so on.</p>
<p>Also loving my <a href="/wiki/#study">study</a> automation panel. So decadent, so much control, so many sockets for such a tiny tiny room.</p>
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<p>Need that heated chair now (actually a heated throw over the chair of course) but I only have that one in <a href="/wiki/#study">the study</a>. I would buy another but my <a href="/wiki/#ikea">IKEA</a> chair where I sit in the evenings is not near a socket, so would need a bit of a think. I am cold right now, I will eat my tea and put a blanket over myself.</p>
<p>One step forward and another back with the light fittings. We do not like the same things. Clare does not like <a href="/wiki/#antiques">the antique</a> brass that I am veering towards (and while I would have agreed previously <a href="/2025/02/05/pound75-win-on-the-premium-bonds/">I think there are some classy ones now</a>), she says shiny chrome or white. We're going to look at some in a department store on our <a href="/wiki/#day/off">day off</a> on Monday.</p>
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<p>And I'm looking for light fittings and light switches. I was looking before I won the £75, it is not making a huge difference to my decision making. I see <a href="https://www.corston.com/products/1g-two-way-toggle-switch-antique-brass?variant=53523275776379">some switches that I like</a> from <a href="https://www.corston.com">https://www.corston.com</a> but I don't see any wall lights to go with them, so I can't just unilaterally buy more components that match nothing else in the room. will keep looking.</p>
<p>I can have these nice <a href="/wiki/#antiques">antique</a>-style toggle switches now because I have that smart light fitting that fits behind it, and keeps <a href="/wiki/#home/automation">the home automation</a> working. I should probably give it a try with an existing non-smart light switch though before I try and refit the house.</p>
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