please empty your brain below
Very interesting dg, especially with the usual mix of incisiveness and wit

Andrew | 07.03.06 - 12:48 a.m. | #

Well I'm certainly in the minority, aren't I? I would say that you're posting a fair amount of kittens.

I suppose the myspace profile might attract some of us "yoofs." Most are more inclined to pay attention to a snoopdog the a "diamond geezery bloke," although I enjoyed that. I recommend typing all of your sentences in shorthand...

Why I'm so interested in all the London stuff: I've had enough of American Idol, Burger King, and people walking around in matching jogging suits. And all of the noise! Londoners seem to be so much more quiet. I happen to like tea...

I think your daily blogging is well appreciated. With all of the idiocy that surrounds us, it's nice to have a reliable read.

lulu | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 3:28 a.m. | #

Wicked cool myspace, Man. You never fail to amuse.

Katie | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 3:38 a.m. | #

i come back day after day because of the time and effort that you put into each post, even the london ones which don't terribly interest me. although it has to be said, i saw the gherkin here first!

keep it up, mate, excellent work

zed | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 7:08 a.m. | #

nang!

NiC | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 7:47 a.m. | #

I noticed. And until the punchline I thought it was just being lazy. Maybe it was.

dg writes: Not so much lazy as efficient, I hope. And the text was much revised. And I wanted to go to sleep before 2am.

Ham | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 8:07 a.m. | #

It's not recycling, it's a feature

Stroppycow | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 8:16 a.m. | #

Question is, how you going to attract the 60+'s? Offer a free carridge clock if you subscribe to yuor rss feed?

Sazzle | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 8:19 a.m. | #

the myspace thing has been brilliant... as always... DG never dissapoints us !
i'm kind of new comer here, i found this blog sometime around summer, still don't remember how, i think i was looking for something about the tube, but it had more interesting topics and i decided to suscribe. i know DG gets dissapointed with the RSS readers but hey otherwise i wouldn't be able to keep track of all your posts!!
cheers and keep it up!

sole | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 8:25 a.m. | #

I read your blog because it is a way of keeping in touch with everyday events in London. I last lived in London in 1965,(I live now in the Netherlands) I have been back since for various business/vacation trips.
I love your tips about things to do in London that are not general knowledge.

Michael | 07.03.06 - 8:35 a.m. | #

Careful wording about the 2002 readership (ie 'claim' ) I too honestly doubt whether there are 20 of us... Maybe I'm wrong.
*challenges the other 19 to identify themselves*

Blue Witch | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 8:41 a.m. | #

"diamond geezer has 0 friends"

Poor D. Geezer.

Scaryduck | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 9:33 a.m. | #

I think this is the only time I don't mind being called Mr Average - I am a straight-but-coupled 30-something male blog-reader from the London area. Fear me, mortals, and my awesome powers of averageness.

dg writes: Except you have your own blog, so you're not quite average...

Thanks for continuing to provide smart, funny, interesting and continual blog-reading entertainment, DG.

David | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 9:52 a.m. | #

I live in NZ, but I've just returned from a two year stint in London. Your blog is a great entertaining bit of nostalgia. Keep up the good work!

MIke | 07.03.06 - 10:01 a.m. | #

well, I almost fit the average profile, but for the fact that I live in Germany. But I do come from London, if that helps. And that's something that tends to be forgotten: not all readers outside the UK are from those places. There's definitely an element of homesickness to account for why I read so many London-based blogs, though often reading them is as close as I really want to get to being there...

By the way, one thing you modestly failed to mention in your comparison with 2004's survey: the number of respondents (and presumably also readers) almost quadrupling! Bravo.

Wayne | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 10:01 a.m. | #

I'm yet another straight 30s coupled male Londoner. I do have a blog, mind, which makes me marginally less average among your readers, but only just. I wouldn't try a survey like this on mine, because suspecting you have only three readers doesn't hurt as much as knowing you only have two. (Hi Mum.)

I put 2002 although it's possible I first came along in early 2003... I really can't remember. Certainly feels like I've been reading your stuff for four years or so. (In a good way, that is.)

I used to visit every workday, typing the address into the address bar each time. Recently I finally got fed up with that and signed up to bloglines. Now I read the weekend posts too, although not during the actual weekend.

Ant | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 12:10 p.m. | #

I declared that I was reading here in 2002. (At least I think I was. By the way I'm reading this while seated in a plane at Heathrow. I'd like to think I am the first of your readers to d that? Would be interesting to do a survey of *where* readers read these pages too.)

Jag | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 12:28 p.m. | #

Hey. I'm also part of the average 20ish single coupled category, although I am not from nor have I ever lived in London (I do visit it from time to time).

I am from Lisbon, Portugal, and I read your blog often (daily during weekdays) not because of London, Tea, Old TV shows...but because of the way you actually write, regardless of what the topic is.

Keep it up

Mauri | 07.03.06 - 1:02 p.m. | #

I fear your My Space...

Simon | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 1:36 p.m. | #

2.5 years I've been coming here, single and partnered but always gay as a daisy. And I first visited because you challenged me to work out your real name and I did - which mildly suprised you. X

garax | 07.03.06 - 2:30 p.m. | #

Or was it what you did... Anyway - yes actually it was wasn't it - but anyway - I still come in via Google. Pie and mash, yum :0)

garax | 07.03.06 - 2:32 p.m. | #

Myspace? You turned now! What sort of insociable bufoon has a myspace account?

In other news, http://www.myspace.com/rhyswynne



Sorry, I'll hide again.

Rhys | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 2:38 p.m. | #

I'm one of those 11 who clicked

Nico | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 3:47 p.m. | #

something is wrong with the commenting here :/

Nico | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 3:49 p.m. | #

you didn't have the right categories for me really

Phin | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 8:03 p.m. | #

By only running the poll for one day, surely you skew it in favour of us daily readers?

Ian | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 9:25 p.m. | #

If I ran the poll for a month I'd probably skew it in favour of occasional readers.

So yes, the survey fails on all known statistical quality criteria. But at least it's interesting.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 9:41 p.m. | #

In the same way as there are distance students, some of us are distance Londoners. Regards to Michael and to MIke. Ditto to Mauri -I see I'm not the only Iberian around.
By the way, I learnt about Diamond Geezer through Londonist.

Pepe | 07.03.06 - 9:42 p.m. | #

I am your transgendered, bisexual reader, living in a threesome with my legal partner and illegal boyfriend, on the moon. I always lie about my age and I visit here exactly once a year, on the anniversary of when I found it, which was actually before you even started writing it. Quite frankly, I found it very hard to answer your questions.

Clearly not Chig | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 9:44 p.m. | #

I'm Mr Average because I'm 30-ish, married, live in E4, and although I have a blog, it's not been updated since July last year, so that hardly counts!

But I probably stumbled across your blog from a Scaryduck link, after he won the Grauniad thing. (03?)

Shellers | 07.03.06 - 10:43 p.m. | #

I see you now have 4 'space friends'
That I find *very* worrying.

One can only wonder why no-one appears to have visited the second link there.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 07.03.06 - 11:01 p.m. | #











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