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If relevant, please start your comment with a number from 1 to 31.
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diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.08.22 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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2: I wonder if from your diaries you could chart the onset of the blackberry season. It will soon be time to get down to my local patch and stock the freezer for autumnal crumbles.
Adam | 01.08.22 - 7:12 a.m. | #
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12. Next year apply Tomorrorite liquid fertiliser for even more blooms.
Christopher Bellew | Homepage | 01.08.22 - 7:15 a.m. | #
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29 - I agree. It was a fab trip down memory lane for we who remember Melanie’s laugh. I wonder how current viewers found it? Non-1980s characters only seemed to get 5 minutes of the finale.
Dan | 01.08.22 - 7:20 a.m. | #
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27 The book club website looks like a parody.
David | 01.08.22 - 7:33 a.m. | #
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4. What a fantastic entrance and frontage.
Mike | 01.08.22 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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1. Often my favourite post of the month, please continue with them.
13. Well done that Lady. Sure she'll soon be an expert.
24. Great picture!
25. Thanks. I'd missed the Sayle one.
26. I suspect it was you not BMFW that knew this anniversary was due!
Frank F | 01.08.22 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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31: MP’s in training?
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 01.08.22 - 8:01 a.m. | #
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14) The News Shopper was never exactly packed with local journalism to start with, but is now a shadow of even that level, after the staff cutbacks made in recent years.
Mikey C | 01.08.22 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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1. Persisting with these posts gets my vote.
23. I don't get this. Maybe a novel application of Bayes Theorem. Either the actor, or a look-alike, seems to live locally. But which is it?
Malcolm of Kent | 01.08.22 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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31.
A) Please do not (very Scarfolkian)
B) Feed the donkeys! (Imperative form)
John Styles | 01.08.22 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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2. I call it summer in full swing
3. Three things to put me off bothering with Instagram
28. I enjoyed it. It had a healthy 'weird' quotient.
NickW | 01.08.22 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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1. Please continue!
6. I have found the new electronic prescription system much more efficient. I remember days when I had to visit the surgery to order a repeat. Now it all happens online, and I'm usually in our local independent pharmacy for under a minute to pick it up.
Tim W. | 01.08.22 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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1. Just because I don’t comment doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy reading these random snippets each month
Brian | 01.08.22 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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1. I love reading about minutiae that might not warrant a whole post on its own.
Hadders | 01.08.22 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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6 - I understand why you want to reduce paperwork, but you're making more and more of the country's administrative systems reliant on a single point of failure.
9 - Islam don't do western culture, but the west does multiculturism.
Still Anon | 01.08.22 - 8:29 a.m. | #
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2. When I was a child in Northumberland, the October half term was known as Blackberry week.
Alan | 01.08.22 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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14. The Waltham Forest Guardian has contained very little news within the Borough for some considerable time now.
Barry Coppock | 01.08.22 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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(if you're going to comment on 1, thanks, please also comment on one of the others, because that's kind of the point)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.08.22 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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1. I enjoy them!
28. Saw a bit, pretty average stuff I thought.
Kevin | 01.08.22 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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Unlike you I don't track everything I do so I cannot say whether this is my first comment or my 5th comment (or somewhere in between). But I have read your offerings every day for years now; and will do so as long as I can use an internet connection and you continue to blog. Please keep up the good work.
dg writes: it's your 59th, thanks!
Mike Roberts | 01.08.22 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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23: I thought I saw Emily Blunt driving in Richmond a few months ago, but I thought it couldn't be her as she lives in L.A. with Jim from the American office. Then the next day I was walking past the River Cafe in Hammersmith, and there she was with her American husband and I assume their children (somebody's children, anyway), so I upped my sighting from the previous day from potential to actual.
28. I watched to see Duran Duran because I love a bit of nostalgia, but was disappointed with their selection of songs. If only I could have chosen the set list. I then watched videos for the songs I wanted to hear on YouTube.
Greg | 01.08.22 - 9:19 a.m. | #
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7. Collecting his salary until September means he jumps over both Theresa May and James Callaghan in length of tenure. This historial footnote is probably important to him.
Fred | 01.08.22 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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20: I was wondering about which supermarket brands would consider opening at Barking Riverside. What demographic do they expect in the area, with all its "luxury" flats? Waitrose/M&S, Sainsbury/Tesco/Morrisons, or Lidl/Aldi people? The arrival of the Co-op seems a rather neutral one, so the jury is out.
Alex McKenna | 01.08.22 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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22. Scrolling down the page I assumed the picture would be something to do with Cadbury; such is the subliminal power of branding. (Or is it that I'm too much of a chocaholic?)
23. Not being a film / TV buff I had to look him up; I'm still none the wiser.
Tim | 01.08.22 - 9:31 a.m. | #
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27 Why pay £4.99 for an ebook when they're free at many local libraries. A real benefit I discovered in lockdown.
31 A donkey died near us because it had been fed so much bread. It has a terrible effect on their stomachs.
PS 1 Stick with the monthly miscellany.
ap | 01.08.22 - 9:44 a.m. | #
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1. I enjoy the unblogged comments even if I never comment on them. Please continue.
As you requested!!
22. Thanks, I'll wait till it's fully open brfore going.
MikeK | 01.08.22 - 10:07 a.m. | #
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24. Deal is certainly much gentrified from the days of my youth.
Ian | 01.08.22 - 10:10 a.m. | #
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27: If only they'd gone a bit further with the Book Club idea and hosted a monthly forum for people to discuss the chosen book(s), either on the website or even at Hodder & Stoughton's corporate headquarters.
James | 01.08.22 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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8 - I wonder which bar is driving the price increase the most.
19/21 - the tips around shutting windows and curtains to keep heat out worked fine. Until the plumber turned up to test our new boiler and needed to turn the heating on! Even though only brief it moved the internal temperature from a bearable 27 to a difficult 29
TomH | 01.08.22 - 10:49 a.m. | #
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15. I missed this post the first time round. I'm not sure I had anything to comment then, so think I would have made the cut. Ironically.
Jordan D | 01.08.22 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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1. More un-blogged, monthly round-up's please!
6. Currently moving from paper to online at work and completely breaking a perfectly good system in the process!
9. Fine clothing of all shapes, sizes and gender on full display round here on the 30th for the Islamic New Year!
13. Well done that lady! Go raging into the dying of the light!
21. I'd hoped my kids would have gone into various trades, to help keep us in our old age!!
24. Excellent photo
29. Having not watched it since 1994 I gave it a miss, figuring I wouldn't remember any of them anyway!
31. Quite!!
Cornish Cockney | 01.08.22 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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25. Spent the morning with Alexei's strangers. A lovely engaging listen; prompted me to reserve the second volume of his autobiography from the library.
Frank F | 01.08.22 - 11:43 a.m. | #
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28. I thought it was the best opening ceremony I had seen at a sporting event since London 2012, topped by Joe Lycett managing to squeeze in a reference to a small nightclub I spent my uni years in.
29. I was convinced that I hadn't watched Neighbours since around 92, but while looking up various half-remembered characters in the episode, I realised I must have seen bits of it for at least five more years than that. I blame my sister, as it turns out she watched it every day until she moved out of the family home.
Peter of London | 01.08.22 - 1:05 p.m. | #
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3: You seem to have followed a lot of people to have plenty of prople posting 10+ stories at a time. I control my list very strictly.
5: So the current Sainsbury is not eco-friendly?
Patrickov | 01.08.22 - 1:24 p.m. | #
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6. My wife needed a prescription recently of something in short supply, and while she could previously walk along the High Street, prescription in hand, trying several pharmacies, she now has to go back to the doctor's surgery and wait for a doctor to reissue it and then trek back to the pharmacy. You might have thought they could have taken the railways' 'pick it up from any station' approach.
Peter | 01.08.22 - 2:08 p.m. | #
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10. I wanted to attend that Antiques Roadshow in Stoke Newington purely to experience the level of Sunday morning comfort that I always assumed attendees had when I would watch it as a kid. But I couldn't figure out how to get a ticket without having to bring an item for valuation.
Michael | 01.08.22 - 2:49 p.m. | #
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1 - I always enjoy these, I'm just not a prolific poster so please don't discontinue them
24 - gosh what a stunning photo
flyingfish93 | 01.08.22 - 3:39 p.m. | #
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1. Enjoy the unblog comments.
31. Provided a morning laugh. The possibilities are endless.
Mary | 01.08.22 - 4:23 p.m. | #
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3) some accounts have an option to view a chronological feed without being punctuated by adverts or suggested posts - if the logo in the top left corner has a down arrow beside it, click it and then choose "Following".
Jamesthegill | 01.08.22 - 4:51 p.m. | #
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1. I really enjoy these posts - please continue
DavidC | 01.08.22 - 6:07 p.m. | #
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17) Nice aim, but without any solid number about the cost of such plans, and how they intend to fund them (when councils are generally broke), it's hard to see it gathering much momentum
20) That's hideous. I assume it's a prefab because the longer term plan is for something else to occupy that space.
Mikey C | 01.08.22 - 6:34 p.m. | #
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17) the only time I've been inside the Ecology Pavillion was to donate blood, and it's definitely the only place I've been able to watch ducks while donating.
martin | 01.08.22 - 7:10 p.m. | #
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30) A reflection on the mentality of a lot of people I think. Much rather find blame in 'foreigners' then look within. Our country is brilliant but too many have the little Englander view.
Jack | 01.08.22 - 7:31 p.m. | #
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3) the same three things I hate about instagram
Michael | 01.08.22 - 8:10 p.m. | #
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14. You are so right about our local? news shopper. Absolutely no news. We only picked up copies when we needed paper to frost cover tender plants in the greenhouse or if ‘imself had a fancy for a bit of paint decorating! 😂
Jo W | 01.08.22 - 8:27 p.m. | #
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5. And I thought it was just me with a fine selection of bookmarks from the Sainsbury's archive.
H SE18 | 01.08.22 - 9:07 p.m. | #
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1. I really like these monthly look backs, please don’t stop them
Sidney | 01.08.22 - 9:13 p.m. | #
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31. wikipedia.org/Led_By_Donkeys
Malcolm of Kent | 01.08.22 - 10:24 p.m. | #
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1. I think your snarky comments about readers leaving irrelevant comments puts people off
Jj | 01.08.22 - 10:28 p.m. | #
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Only three days have not inspired comment!
11 16 18
I think that's a record :)
Thanks, the varied comprehensive comments really add to the post.
Same again next month?
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.08.22 - 11:59 p.m. | #
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1) As many others have already commented, I also want to say that I love these monthly retrospectives.
16) You may not have made it to the half-century but that's still a neat feather in your cap (at least, I think so).
X-Plaistow | 02.08.22 - 12:49 a.m. | #
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18) That's the point when you might learn if the residents are nimbys who think their house was the last 'right' one, or who have a better view on new housing in the area.
17) Did you like the festival? It's the sort of school holiday event I feel too old for. Glad to hear about the river project, they have a good attitude on both cyclista and pedestrians using shared spaces.
20) Good, if I were coming on the boat and leaving by train/bus it might be the only chance for a snack for a while.
toby | 02.08.22 - 8:55 a.m. | #
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5. Forgot about Morning Coffee. Right up there as one of the greatest dunkers!
21. I'm a plumber, would happily have sorted your problem out and much cheaper as I only have one home, as yet not fully paid for. I guess though I would know you aren't Bruce Wayne and that would blow your cover.
Cottonsocks | 03.08.22 - 9:13 p.m. | #
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1. Unblogged things are a great part and stable of the blog
Tom | 05.08.22 - 5:07 p.m. | #
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1. Your lists are a delight, and useful too - I’ve just come back to the last few to follow your BBC Sounds recommended links for some long journeys in the coming days. Thanks dg.
Lux | 16.10.22 - 6:30 a.m. | #
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