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diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.03.20 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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5 : I must disagree about the Wellcome Centre's current exhibition, I didn't enjoy it, possibly because I don't understand video gaming and similar pastimes. I ended up upstairs in the medical section, reading a book about Siamese twins.
10 : Like you I thought the first book excellent, but the next two were a bit repetitive and I haven't seen any reason to try the later ones.
22 : The lack of trains meant a lazy stay-at-home day
amber | 01.03.20 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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4. I remember This Life fondly. There was a handsome fair haired man in the cast and the most delightful Egg.
Andrew | Homepage | 01.03.20 - 7:23 a.m. | #
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26: In London that window will only remain functional for a few months anyway.
Sarah | 01.03.20 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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15 Silence is how Theresa May became Conservative Party Leader, and how she tried to fight her first election,so no surprise Johnson is trying the same.
Al | 01.03.20 - 7:48 a.m. | #
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23: idiots stopping when immediately through barriers, top of escalators etc. You should be ready with some sort of cutting comment, like "you wouldn't stop dead like that on the M25 would you?". Happens to me all the time in my Waitrose: ladies [sorry fairer sex] of entitlement do things with their trolleys that they would never do with their 4 x 4. too much self absorption these days, I'm afraid.
J. | 01.03.20 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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1 - it could still mutate into something deadlier and redistribute wealth around the generations.
15 - hooray!, although the Home Secretary is changing that, and we do have the budget to look forward to.
26 - I have developed a tendency to make tea in the microwave, you don't have to de-scale a microwave.
28 - they all opened at the same time?, synchronised flower opening and you call that 'only'.
Still Anon | 01.03.20 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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26. Which is the right hand side of a kettle?
Liz | 01.03.20 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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26 That's because the world is designed for right-handed people.
Eric | 01.03.20 - 8:24 a.m. | #
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4. This Life was absolutely superb but 1996 also gave us Our Friends in The North. So I think 1996 did get even better.
MO | 01.03.20 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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28. Your daffodils are noisy
MO | 01.03.20 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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29. I hope you incorporated a windy and sodden walk during Jorge, to complete the February Saturday storms trio.
Frank F | 01.03.20 - 9:08 a.m. | #
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3 Paper tickets? What are those? eticket or mobile ticket on your phone, no wasted time having to type in a code and wait for it to print out either ...
Geofftech | 01.03.20 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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7 - English Settlement, their finest LP in my book (but they're all rather spiffy). If you don't like XTC you'll get no scones round our house!
Burntweenie | 01.03.20 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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2. My feelings precisely when I was there a few months ago. An example of this on a much larger scale (more water, more impressive post-industiral architecture, shopping centre alongside) is the docks area of Gloucester. It's had a LOT of redevelopment, but has been more or less unable to shake off the surrounding bleakness.
6. It's poorly advertised, as are the exact limits of its validity, and from London you need to get to Oxford or Swindon for it to be of any use, but the Cotswolds Discoverer ticket (I think it's £10.50 now) is a pretty excellent GWR/bus day ticket, despite some cuts in bus services in the more rural bits of Oxfordshire since it was introduced.
Dominic H | 01.03.20 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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8. Tadman's was previously in Jubilee Street, Stepney and there was something of a (failed) campaign to save its old building which was Georgian. Alf buried numerous members of my family and, as kids we were always worried about bumping in to him. The word was that he measured you up for your coffin as he spoke to you.
Joan | 01.03.20 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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26 It is quite astounding just how many kitchen appliances are only for use by right handers...
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 01.03.20 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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3. I found a dropped credit card at a mainline station the other day so dutifully handed it in after searching the length and breadth of the station for the lost property, only to watch them cut it up!
21. Loving the signs of spring - just wish the weather would follow suit!
23.I just bump into and push past people who stop dead at ticket barriers, door, tops/bottoms of escalators and return the glare - and yes it is always women and usually of a certain age, though not necessarily exclusively! Groups of 20-somethings have been known to dither at exits.
It's not always deliberate - sometimes the momentum of moving forward is too fast and the stop too unexpected to avoid them.
29. What kind of rail replacement service replaces one train with another!
Cornish Cockney | 01.03.20 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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29. There was a well recorded situation a few years ago, between Faversham and Dover I think, when passengers stranded by a broken electric train were ushered onto a handily passing, normally expensive, steam charter train.
Malcolm | 01.03.20 - 10:35 a.m. | #
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3. Life is good, after all.
9. Ciara denied me a much anticipated hovercraft trip, which would have been my first since going on the magnificent but hair-raising SRN4 a few decades ago.
11. I'm pretty sure that Crossrail roundel frame had been occupied by an errant Underground innards. If not, then others around that site definitely have.
14a. I get woken up by power cuts. The silence is palpable. It's also possible that the gentle clunk and wirr of always-on stuff having the rug pulled induces this.
17. Some of those towers are shockingly close to each other. I assume the flats that look straight into the neighbouring ones across a 3m gap must be the 'affordable' ones. They've been doing a good job with the Ravensbourne all the way through Lewisham
19. A rare whole-hearted product endorsement. Looks like my sort of gadget. I might be 'influenced'. Doesn't even need a separate plug!. My last such was a £29 puck-sized thing that feeds the old-school living room stereo from the laptop and phone without demanding loyalty to proprietary ecosystems.
NickW | 01.03.20 - 10:44 a.m. | #
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18: I find the Only Connect questions inscrutable apart from one when illthe round was “composers and their birthplaces with no vowels” and I got them all instantly so I have the worst super power ever.
4: the best of times, in the old shared flat in Edinburgh...
Kevin | 01.03.20 - 10:48 a.m. | #
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26) Mine, known as Morphy 'Opera' Richards has windows on both sides, but like Liz I am unsure of which is the left window and which the right.
scrumpy | 01.03.20 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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No.23 Dithering: Why do people queue and push past each other going into shops, etc? Use the other door of the pair!!
Mike | 01.03.20 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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(23 is not about dithering)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.03.20 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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7: XTC were a fine band. The Ridgeway walk takes you past the Uffington White Horse which was quite exciting, though as you're above it you don't really get to see it properly.
Mikey C | 01.03.20 - 11:42 a.m. | #
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1: This is exactly why the epidemuc spread outside China. Europe is in danger now.
3: I agree. Counting is important. The most easily missed things for me are items of take-away food.
29: I would very much like to see this blogged.
Patrickov | 01.03.20 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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9. I imagine the sign of the new undertakers being broken because some one from the older undertakers ripped it down in a fit of pique.
That thought also reminded me of an old Dave Alan sketch of two undertakers racing to bury their clients.
26. As for what side of a kettle is left or right, the way I look at it the handle is the spine of the back and the spout is on the front, looking at it that way left and right is quite obvious.
Barry | 01.03.20 - 12:22 p.m. | #
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23) ...is quite possibly sexist.
...by both sides.
Grumpy Anon | 01.03.20 - 12:35 p.m. | #
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20. If South Kensington station is too crowded, try the next station--Gloucester Road. Only requires a walk of .3 miles back Cromwell Rd to get to the museums.
Mary | 01.03.20 - 1:16 p.m. | #
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3. Nearly left one of those tickets in the machine myself but realised before I left and before the next customer got there. Very easy to do and could be a costly mistake (in my case £60 ish). Always the one for the first leg of your journey, guess there is logic in that..
11. Witnessed the building chaos around Moorgate last month and similar at Harold Wood while doing the Loop. A lot of it still to finish.
davews | 01.03.20 - 3:43 p.m. | #
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2. DG Where is riverside barking on the map?
Bruce Wayne | 01.03.20 - 4:11 p.m. | #
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29. Looked for it. Still running today but in my case £40 return just to do it seemed a little excessive. If only I'd been able to get an advance ticket...
ap | 01.03.20 - 5:13 p.m. | #
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6. "onboarding."
No. Just no.
Creeping Americanisation must be resisted.
Blue Witch | 01.03.20 - 5:15 p.m. | #
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Bruce - questions like that rarely get answered, so I'll give you a clue instead: It's not the usual place where the geographically challenged go to cross the road.
Which reminds me -
18. Having read the leap year post, if DG wanted a job, he'd make a damn good Only Connect question setter or QI 'elf'.
NickW | 01.03.20 - 5:54 p.m. | #
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3) It's an easy mistake. At the ACTV in Venice a payment receipt comes out first and I nearly walked away with it assuming it was my ticket, before a considerable delay while the real ticket got printed.
kev | 01.03.20 - 9:35 p.m. | #
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29 Looking forward to the Spa Valley Railway post
DavidC | 01.03.20 - 9:44 p.m. | #
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Days which have not inspired comment:
12 13 16 24 25 27
(but the vast majority have, cheers!)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.03.20 - 12:05 a.m. | #
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5. Like you, I enjoyed the Play Well exhibition. I thought the film of a (replica) branch of McDonalds slowly being flooded made Being Human worthwhile, but then I do love both gradual processes and wanton destruction...
Baldassaro | 02.03.20 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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2) Ahh there we go, who'd have thought!
Bruce Wayne | 02.03.20 - 6:59 p.m. | #
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I didn’t realize that you were a person who’d buy a bunch of flowers for your home. Nice.
Sally Hirst | 03.03.20 - 10:13 p.m. | #
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1. 6 months on and can confirm commenters still anon and Patrickov were spot on.
E1W-er | 01.09.20 - 2:53 p.m. | #
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