please empty your brain below

Congrats dude, although it's about bloody time.

You could always photograph the article and stick it on Flickr. Just to show it actually appeared. They don't need to know about the View Larger button...

Cut to the chase man! How much are you getting paid?

Exciting news! A few hundred thousand more people reading your stuff - WOW!! How many bendy buses is that?

Nice one! I lived in Woolwich and used that tunnel a few times. So I shall go to WHSmith and read it.

Yes but...

I want to know why you never told us that Nelson's Column was shorter than it was meant to be. I'm sure you must have noticed

(oh, and, congrats )

Yeah! Congratulations DG!

re-spec' man

Very well done DG! You might get your own personal column

Shame I can't read it though, living in that hole of a county called Essex. Although, sometimes it crops up in the Railway Stations, might just have to take a look.

Well done DG.

Ref the height of Nelson's column, did anyone else notice that the difference between how high they thought it was and what they've now measured is 16' and the height of the statue is about 5m, or 16' (roughly)? Methinks that might explain the discrepancy.

About bloody time

Congratulations, hope it becomes a regular feature.

Welcome to the club!
(Grr, he said "series"...)

well done kiddo.
tho i hate that mag. same articles every three months; "Londons best cheap eats" (since when has £15 a head been cheap?). "Londons best bars" (lovely pics of groovy bars with only one table of drinkers but when you make the effort and visit them they are heaving with drunks and look nothing like the pics in the fookin' magazine). and don't get me started on "Londons best days out with your scabby kids".

*applause* *streamers*

Hurrah, I might start buying TO more often now!

Congratumalations. First time I've been tempted to buy the mag!

Well done! Haven't read it yet - hopefully you weren't as disparaging as I was in my Flickr photostream (ta for the link, btw).

The WFT was one of the most frightening places I've been to in London - the overpowering smell of damp, the gloom, the lack of people. So bravo for making people more aware of its existence - it could really do with a clean and fixing up, and additional popular attention is what it needs.

Brilliant news DG - well done indeed.

Excellent dg... well deserved. About time you had a wider audience than the www. Hmmm... Time Out is intergalactic these days isn't it?

Congratulations. Didn't I see you quoted in Time Out a couple weeks ago?

My issue's just arrived today. I'll be sure to check out your work.

Very well deserved indeed, many congrats.

Now, where's this "London" you speak of?

Congratulations. It would seem to me that your ramblings would make a great London Travel Guide book.

You could publish it in limited quantities without incurring much of a financial risk at lulu.com

http://www.lulu.com/

Here in Seattle there's a travel writer (Rick Steves), who makes a fortune doing travel guides. I think the real publishing secret about writing a really good travel book is that libraries buy the new updated edition every year! So the lucky travel writer only has to add a few yearly price updates and they get to sell the whole book over again.

http://www.ricksteves.com/

Congrats DG in joining the ranks of published bloggers. I shall keep an eye out.

For the record my local library doesn't have the latest editions of anything, let alone travel guides.

DG-

Congratulations, indeed, from Chicago in the colonies!

BTW, we have bookstores here wherein are carried all manner of UK publications, Time Out/London amongst the rest.

So, I'll keep an eye out for it...

Dave Ladner

I was going to say something along the lines of "Congratulations... fame at last!"

But you've gone and (a la Kylie) did it again...

What was it the last time? Oh yes. The expose of our friends not-so-electric at Metronet in the Standard. Yes, it's all coming back to me now.

Well done. Hope more people get to see your work.

Good work, chap! Hope you're getting paid!

Well done DG, long overdue in my opinion. I assume the series is weekly, so when home next week I will pick up a TO.

The series is best described as 'occasional', rather than weekly, so don't expect anything next week. Or the week after.

Top one. Cool to be in Time Out. I'm looking forward to reading about the WFT, where my most memorable use was one evening to shelter out of the wind and rain and snog a girl I was with! Can't say I ever used it to cross the Thames...

DG you beat me to it - i was almost contmeplating sending a short photo-essay of the greenwich foot tunnel in to submit to smoke - check out my url for a few of my puny efforts

oh well ... they say great minds think alike

Well done that Geezer in that there London.

I’m obviously in the minority. Sorry, but I’m sad. Sad that DG has now gone commercial. Great for you, BUT the reason I read your blog daily is BECAUSE it’s a blog- seems intimate some how -like reading a letter from an overseas friend. It takes time and effort to pen your thoughts. I never bother even opening the Sunday colour supplements, I’m selective which article I read in the daily’s and Time Out is not my scene, but I have been a daily reader of DG. Boo-hoo gnash teeth & go to bed.

I will, obviously, be introducing a subscription-only firewall for all of my future London posts, and I'll only be posting inferior stuff on my blog in the coming weeks so that all the quality pieces can be ring-fenced for magazine purchasers only, and then I'll be going on lengthy hiatus so that I can spend all my spare time writing articles to satisfy my new print media audience. Oh, and the irritating in-blog adverts start tomorrow. Obviously.

Print media's the new Web 2.0. Pass it on.

Glad to hear it DG, tho' if you're going to do more couldn't you ask for a right to publish here one month after publication or somesuch? I doubt they do much on the back-issue front!

I have never bought TO in my life, do I need to start now? Please keep up with the blog, as now I'm living in the suburbs, I hardly ever get into London any more, but still like to have a nostalgic read about it. I have just become a regular reader recommended by Geoff.

Excellent. Well deserved indeed.

And many more!

(I was raising a glass there. Could you tell I was raising a glass? Well I was. Actually, literally speaking, I wasn't. But I was metaphorically, and that's what counts. I think. Sorry. Um. Congratulations!)

Superb!

Long may it last - It's a nice bit of extra cash isn't it...

There was one copy left in our out-of-town outpost, so I was able to buy it for posterity (PS will you sign it please?) Shame they didn't print your blog address. Did they edit/cut what you wrote?

We can buy Time Out way up here in the provinces, you know. Newsagents use trains these days - it's amazing.











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