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On hold: Sleeves

Frank F | 15.04.24 - 7:10 a.m. | #

Wot no LIDL, M&S and Spar?!

And, do Morrisons deserve a double billing?!

Ken | 15.04.24 - 7:11 a.m. | #

There's a whole world of shades of green in the Pantone printing ink book.

Rob Gullen | 15.04.24 - 7:16 a.m. | #

Other green things: Lavender (dilly dilly) and peace (environment).

Trevor S | 15.04.24 - 7:26 a.m. | #

M&S aren’t green any more, Ken, do keep up.

And Lidl is blue and yellow with a dash of red.

Ackshley | 15.04.24 - 7:34 a.m. | #

Pedantic corner: I’m pretty sure the green-eyed monster is about jealousy (i.e. Desdemona is mine, you can’t have her) rather than envy (i.e. Desdemona isn’t mine but I want her)!

dg writes: I wish I'd spotted that. Fixed thanks.

Dominic Self | Homepage | 15.04.24 - 7:43 a.m. | #

£5 banknote.

Ian | 15.04.24 - 7:45 a.m. | #

There is a real, non-fictional Land of Green Ginger in Hull.

Lucy Garden | 15.04.24 - 8:02 a.m. | #

The greenery down there looks good. Meanwhile here in the Dales the the trees are still budding and it's 2.9C and currently trying to snow outside.
But we do have cute little black faced Swaledale lambs starting to gambol in the field over the back wall.

Your correspondent in the North,
Putters

Putters | 15.04.24 - 8:08 a.m. | #

Fictional: Henry the Green Engine

Carllo | 15.04.24 - 8:27 a.m. | #

Green Man (in many an old church), Knight (Sir Gawain and the), Jolly Giant.

rogergh | 15.04.24 - 8:41 a.m. | #

Paddington Green (Harrow Road W2 near the Marylebone Flyover) seems to be missing. Famous as the haunt of Polly Perkins and PC Dixon of Blue Lamp Fame.

Peter | 15.04.24 - 8:44 a.m. | #

Lovely to see the trees in Spring, but some people, like me, have tree pollen allergy which spoils the season.

John | 15.04.24 - 8:46 a.m. | #

Pro Green of this parish! He lives up the road from me.

dg writes: I meant to put him in... now have, thanks.

ganching | Homepage | 15.04.24 - 8:56 a.m. | #

Soylent (people)

Matt | 15.04.24 - 9:00 a.m. | #

The House with the Green Shutters - novel praised by Orwell and Borges

Keith from N2 | 15.04.24 - 9:01 a.m. | #

Forest Green Rovers, if you want a green football team who play in green.

miker | 15.04.24 - 9:02 a.m. | #

I saw Professor Green slap someone at a university Freshers/welcome party concert once. It was deserved.

Ted | 15.04.24 - 9:18 a.m. | #

Green salt and vinegar crisp packets. Room 101. Enough said.

Rod | 15.04.24 - 9:21 a.m. | #

sadly the great Peter Green, one of Londons greatest musicians seems to have escaped the list. But as a very modest (if also disturbed) person I am sure that would amused the Green Manalishi.

Keith the Kraut | 15.04.24 - 9:29 a.m. | #

Music: Barwick Green.

702/703 bus routes are no longer Green Line (now London Line, following some kind of falling out between Reading Buses and holders of the Green Line trademark, Arriva).

Man of Kent | 15.04.24 - 9:44 a.m. | #

Ficitional - Camberwick.

Paul | 15.04.24 - 9:46 a.m. | #

And I always thought salt and vinegar always had to be blue.

kev | 15.04.24 - 10:21 a.m. | #

I may be wrong but surely Newington Green fits somewhere here?

dg writes: never risk a surely.

freddie fitch | 15.04.24 - 10:22 a.m. | #

Hadley Green 😉

daveid76 | 15.04.24 - 10:47 a.m. | #

Drinks - Green ginger wine.

Roads - Green Lanes. Green Road TW20.

ap | 15.04.24 - 10:56 a.m. | #

Green Door (Shakin' Stevens) otherwise you lost me with the musicians - none of whom I've heard of!!

Spring certainly gladdens the eye after the drab of winter.

Cornish Cockney | 15.04.24 - 10:57 a.m. | #

Tramlink green!

Shingidy | 15.04.24 - 12:41 p.m. | #

Kew Green.
TV series- The Green Green Grass.

Richard | 15.04.24 - 12:56 p.m. | #

Pantone colour of the year (since 2000): 2017 (Greenery), 2013 (Emerald). I am ignoring the turquoise options as they are not green.

Supermarkets: Budgen's

Convenience stores/Petrol stations: EG (Eurogarages), BP, Applegreen, Londis, independent Co-Ops (which are usually green, as opposed to "main" CoOp which is blue).

MilesT | 15.04.24 - 12:59 p.m. | #

A dozen greens added, thanks.

Paddington Green, Newington Green, Hadley Green and Kew Green are not officially registered as common land, nor in the OS's list of placenames.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.04.24 - 1:30 p.m. | #

A happy post.

Pringles does dark green for cheese and onion and light green for sour cream and onion.
Grey Green famously ran the 24.
No mention of a parakeet? What about a frog (Kermit) or toad (Gabriel or Toad Hall), limes, sprouts or those cucumbers that keep escaping. PEAS.
Evergreens - ivy, ferns, grass, holly, ferns, moss, pine.
How much stuff arrives and leaves the country in containers branded 'EVERGREEN'.
British Racing Green & Brunswick Green - #004225.
Stroudley's 'Improved Engine Green'.
Camberwell Green - add to the list of places that everyone knows exists - but doesn't officially.
Indicator lights on electrical goods are often green.
Green bin collections.
Green Lantern.

Still Anon | 15.04.24 - 3:20 p.m. | #

Ian, the £5 banknote is turquoise/blue according to Wikipedia.

mclm | 15.04.24 - 3:40 p.m. | #

Thank you mclm - I see that Wikipedia says "multicoloured (turquoise)" for the current £5 note, which my wife and her niece are delighted to confirm. Maybe I need a colour sight test.

Ian | 15.04.24 - 4:15 p.m. | #

I thought Slade Green was also common land in London.

Former green thing: Royal Green Jackets regiment. T.A. battalion Dotted around London until 2007.

G-Man | 15.04.24 - 5:18 p.m. | #

Stepney Green Park and Stepney Green Gardens may include parts of the old Mile End common lands. Re wikipedia and parksandgardens.org. But may not be in official register.

Martin | 15.04.24 - 5:53 p.m. | #

Pakistani flag, definitely more than 40% green.

dg writes: added, thanks.

Eau de Nil, sage green - very popular front door colours in my London postcode over the last 5 years.

Other precious shades of green - peridot and emerald, to go with jade and aquamarine.

Other green crisps packets - pipers jalapeño and dill.

Green queen | 15.04.24 - 6:33 p.m. | #

Crisps: Seabrooks (popular in Yorkshire) are light green for Cream Cheese & Chive, and dark green for the less popular Lamb and Mint. Their Cheese and Onion is yellow(!)

Neil Turner | Homepage | 15.04.24 - 6:47 p.m. | #

Spectacular. Thank you for this.

yeoldemother | 15.04.24 - 8:22 p.m. | #

Never seen green in my life. Only khaki (I am red/green blind).

Great post though.

Shame the Jolly Green Giant never got a mention.

dg writes: look again.

MO | 15.04.24 - 9:01 p.m. | #

I nearly got a similar wonderful reflection photo in Isabella Garden in Richmond Park about 5 years ago with the stunning flowers.....until someone's darling grandchild threw a stone in to the pool. Grinding of gnashers, and photo opportunity lost!

scrumpy | 15.04.24 - 9:06 p.m. | #

Somebody's been to the Isabella Plantation.

William | 15.04.24 - 9:49 p.m. | #

Green Line - new 725 service Rickmansworth to Stevenage

Nick K | 15.04.24 - 9:59 p.m. | #

I can't help finding it strange that it's considered perfectly ordinary to have "Green" as a surname, whereas using "Red", "Blue", "Purple" or "Yellow" would be regarded as eccentric.

cau1khead | 16.04.24 - 10:10 a.m. | #

Another fictional - Dorien Green

love the Isabella Plantation photos

Victoria | 16.04.24 - 11:49 a.m. | #

More Green Belts:
Aberdeen, Ayr and Prestwick, Clackmannanshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk and Grangemouth, Greater Glasgow, Helensburgh and Stirling.

Martin | 18.04.24 - 5:55 a.m. | #

Musicians: Benny Green, the site of whose residence is marked by a plaque. A blue rather than green plaque, but it is at the north end of Cleveland Street, which by coincidence was formerly called Green Lane.

Another William | 21.04.24 - 2:35 p.m. | #











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