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diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.06.23 - 7:10 p.m. | #

(8) I do miss Tom Ravenscroft on Friday evenings.

John | 30.06.23 - 7:15 a.m. | #

Thu 29th - I sense some frustration at the comments to yesterday's post.

MO | 30.06.23 - 7:15 a.m. | #

7) I was talking to a colleague about Fairgame the other day and trying to work out whether it's more or less of a rip-off than going to the equivalent at the seaside.
8) I think New Music Fix Daily has a bit of bedding in to do, and it's not as unfamiliar as I was expecting, but it's an objectively terrible name for a radio show.

martin | 30.06.23 - 7:24 a.m. | #

1. I also live in Tower Hamlets and they have twice supplied me with waste caddies.

fishislandskin | 30.06.23 - 7:56 a.m. | #

12 - I saw one of the old buses on the 108 yesterday and did think why they were still running when the ones from the 507/521 were sat around spare. Lets hope they do add some more seats in first though!

Jay | 30.06.23 - 7:58 a.m. | #

11. It would have been nice if the 65 heritage buses travelled the full length of the original 65 bus which was from Ealing to Leatherhead

John | 30.06.23 - 8:30 a.m. | #

3) British Gas still ask me for a meter reading every month even though they converted us to a Smart Meter in January.

Richard | 30.06.23 - 8:32 a.m. | #

1. Yes, when the wrapper was made of plastic I could take it to be recycled at Sainsbury's. Now I have to throw it away.

Jonathan Wadman | 30.06.23 - 8:35 a.m. | #

4, 21, 29. Sorry.

Andrew | 30.06.23 - 8:36 a.m. | #

18. That brings back bad memories of a fly infestation in a flat I once part rented...

Mikey C | 30.06.23 - 8:45 a.m. | #

11. I wasn't aware of the London Bus Museum's Heritage Events until last year, when I got to ride an old RT on route 101 to Lambourne End.

Alan S | 30.06.23 - 8:56 a.m. | #

1 - there is an imagined lifestyle which you don't live.
10 - loyal toady gets rewarded, in a way it shows integrity.
18 - does a gathering of flies ever come from a good place.
27 - that's the passing of remaining generation that remembered when the docks were still open.
29 - it's taken you this long.

Still Anon | 30.06.23 - 9:00 a.m. | #

28 - The poster might have meant to show the lost or lesser know rivers of London but I think rather than using Central Line red on the Westbourne they should've used it to colour the Thames.

Barry | 30.06.23 - 9:17 a.m. | #

6) I feel rather foolish that I'd never thought posters could be delivered around the underground network using the drivers and trains they already had. One of the benefits of running your own network!

TomH | 30.06.23 - 9:27 a.m. | #

10. Maybe it is what Shaun knows?

Rod | 30.06.23 - 9:33 a.m. | #

11. "Heritage" buses were also running from Kingston to Leatherhead, as Route 71. Some old buses do not comply with Low Emission Zone restrictions (let alone ultra....) so have to stay in the outer suburbs, hence the split

timbo | 30.06.23 - 9:34 a.m. | #

20 - There are quite detailed, fascinating studies on wasp navigation and their elaborate patterns used to build a memory. They hardly ever fly straight towards their destination, so just flying out of a random window won't do it for them.

commonliner | 30.06.23 - 9:35 a.m. | #

6) Always used to enjoy seeing what was sitting on the large format printer at Northfields, which was conveniently visible through some glass in an otherwise empty room.

Through the period I was using the line, it was usually a hasty apology.

Kirk | 30.06.23 - 9:43 a.m. | #

11,19 - Lack of bus maps generally, yet plenty of special ones on the website for the Heritage event.

dg writes: not a TfL event.

Bob L-S | 30.06.23 - 9:44 a.m. | #

8 - It's far better than I'd feared, certainly not a Whiley/Mayo-style disaster, but I still miss the longer shows with time to breathe, and there's only so much new music I can handle.
17 - I'd say you had the last laugh; things don't seem to have worked out too badly for you since redundancy.
24 - Agree totally and completeley unexpected, to me anyway. I see he's playing the Albert Hall in November. Very tempting.

Andrew S | 30.06.23 - 9:49 a.m. | #

6. The labyrinth in the background makes me wonder if anyone has found / solved all of them.

Kevin | 30.06.23 - 9:50 a.m. | #

27 That's an interesting junction between the Neckinger and Peck. You don't often find a place where a river divides (naturally) between two completely separate outflows. Does it really exist like that?

Peter | 30.06.23 - 10:01 a.m. | #

6. Good to know the ceremony is performed by train, rather than posters arriving at each station by road.

28. I'd never made the link between the London Borough of Brent and Brentford, which this map makes very clear.

Man of Kent | 30.06.23 - 10:07 a.m. | #

(28) In fairness the poster doesn't say anything about them being lost. And it is a fabulous map.

HTFB | 30.06.23 - 10:27 a.m. | #

6. That was a great description of the ceremony that I had assumed was done secretly, behind closed doors. I do hope that you respectfully genuflected before so important a missive?

18. Flies! Still shuddering. 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣

Jo W | 30.06.23 - 10:34 a.m. | #

28. If I’d known 200,000 people were going to see my tweet then I’d have phrased it more carefully, but if I had phrased it more carefully I doubt 200,000 people would have seen it.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.06.23 - 10:39 a.m. | #

13. My Mum used to pop in every year to buy something cheap for a Christmas ornament or stocking filler, just for the Harrods bag they put it in!

16: In the 1970s picture the side of the house looks shocked to have had a brick box built against it, and the brick box looks surprised to be there!

17: I find one is rarely mentally prepared to bump into someone unexpectedly.

30: I'm surprised at the z4-6 count, especially when compared to the others! I suspect that will be rectified as soon as possible!

dg writes: the z4-6 count is unchanged since March.

Cornish Cockney | 30.06.23 - 10:56 a.m. | #

2: Regardless of the actual reason, if I were you I would cancel the purchase immediately.

Patrickov | 30.06.23 - 11:40 a.m. | #

30: You've ridden 546 different bus routes so far this year?? That's nearly 4 new routes per day, no?

dg writes: the bus count is unchanged since March.

Simple Simon | 30.06.23 - 11:45 a.m. | #

28 - the Moselle is not named and seems to have the same colour as the New River, which as every pedant will tell you is neither a river nor new.

Jeremy | 30.06.23 - 12:15 p.m. | #

2. I've been similarly caught out; presumably people see the offer and dump their now unwanted product on the shelf, leaving us unfortunates to just pick it up assuming it was the product on offer.

29. Don't give up! The amount of your blogs generating a lot of interest insomuch as comments go far outweigh those that don't. Assuming of course it IS the lack of comments on that day's article you refer...

Tim | 30.06.23 - 1:33 p.m. | #

1. Don’t know how long those National Trust/Which covers take to decompose. Have a dalek compost bin in which they remain looking like a slick of used condoms

Rog Essex | 30.06.23 - 2:40 p.m. | #

#13 -- many years ago my wife and I were sightseeing at Harrods and encountered Mohamed al-Fayed and a couple of enormous bodyguards doing their rounds!

James Webber | 30.06.23 - 7:11 p.m. | #

25 - I know you won’t confirm or deny but was the anniversary your first sexual encounter?

26- I’m quite enjoying the Pop Master TV show. I quite like the new rounds to get to play original Pop Master. Though it does appear to be two separate game shows squished into one especially as the scores are reset to zero for the original Pop Master section.

Barry | 30.06.23 - 8:38 p.m. | #

I always say (questions will not be answered), and I'm always amazed how many people still ask questions rather than formulating their comment in a different way.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.06.23 - 8:40 p.m. | #

8-As a double act on 6 music you can't beat Radcliffe and Maconie. When they present their weekend show on their own it's not nearly as good.

10- If the bar is set as low as Shaun Bailey, no wonder Nadine Dorres feels hard done by.

Richard | 30.06.23 - 9:13 p.m. | #

20 Us people with french windows don't realise how lucky we are. Had mine replaced last December it cost me £2,ooo, fantastic job.

Noel Cottrell | Homepage | 30.06.23 - 10:41 p.m. | #

Days which have not inspired comment:
5 9 14 15 22 23

(but the vast majority have, cheers!)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.06.23 - 11:59 p.m. | #

2. They'll taste less sweet as a consequence of the price.
24. Agreed.
27. It's what she would've wanted.

Frank F | 01.07.23 - 10:32 a.m. | #

4. That clocktower in crayford is the site of the former white swan pub, which was the best u16 pub in Bexley back in the day. Even had an off license next door for cheeky pint top ups :)

George styles | 01.07.23 - 11:28 a.m. | #

9 I too was underwhelmed. Enjoy épisodes 9,999 and 10,000 plus more Archers history here.

ap | 01.07.23 - 1:39 p.m. | #

11. A few weeks ago you blogged about your 58th birthday and your habitual birthday bus trip. A few days later I was riding the 158, which overlaps the 58, and noticed there were vintage buses running on the 58.

MartinL | 02.07.23 - 7:06 p.m. | #

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diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.07.23 - 7:11 a.m. | #











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