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Looking forward to hearing what you think of Epsom and Banstead.

Latecomer to your blog. What does “NOSH” mean?

dg writes: It's explained in this post.
...Nork?
Is a very real place.
I had to re-read a couple of times to work out what NOSH means. I think DG is setting a test to reward careful readers.
The Watchtower magazine was sold by the Salvation Army in my youth.
I don't think Jehovah's Witnesses do.

dg writes: They do.
Thanks for the meridian mention. I have relatives in that area, but had not realised that one household of them is situated in each hemisphere.

Featherbed Lane is a great name for a road, and figured in my driving route to Sussex in pre-M25 days.
Another lovely descriptive post about an area I feel I should know better.

But there's a typo in the 2nd sub-para of the 64 section - should be "... Selsdon includes an Aldi ..." .
I wouldn't be the most diamondgeezeresque post ever without a comment saying 'I really enjoyed this but there's a mistake in it.'
Fixed thanks.
The Sallies sold the War Cry (the crossword was always fun) in my youth, much of that being mis-spent the pubs in the vicinity, and much of the rest on the 64. The 64's terminus was then Addington Featherbed Lane, at the roundabout.
The cheaper diesel at the start was probably 199.9p by the time you got to Tesco.
Lots of “Nice Outer Suburban Homes” in Park Langley/Langley Park yesterday. And slightly less nice new ones to be built on that cleared site to the west of Langley Court.

L o’clock? Perhaps I should be able to tell from the shadows, but thanks either for being out in south London quite early or staying out moderately late.

Um, I hesitate to ask, but was the conversation on the bus irritable (“having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed”)? Or irritating (“causing annoyance, impatience, or mild anger”)? Both perhaps?
Thanks DG and Betterbee, I stand corrected (again... :-)
Guessing 'irritable' will remain as unexplained as yesterday's 'affable' semis.
I, too, failed the careful reader text and was about to ask what NOSH stood for!!
I especially like the way each bus journey increases by a pleasing 5-minute length. Too much to hope it will continue tomorrow!
When I was a kid I used to look out for the 1st of the new lettered car registrations in August.
Now I'm looking out for the 1st £2 /litre advertised at a petrol station!
The next bus will take you along where I used to do my newspaper round over 50 years ago.

Without stealing your thunder, plenty of NOSHes with long bloody paths along there!
Nicely written.
You had me at Nork. Unbelievable I'd never heard of it. Now left speculating on the nexus between Fletcher's Porridge idioms, geonominative determinism, and David Walliams' formative years.
Interesting to note that the A2022 starts at a junction with the A232, and just before it ends - at Drift Bridge - it's only a mile or so from the other end of the A232. Both are useful routes across South London, but the A232 is busier and more urban.
Random fact for Sanderstead. There are no pubs, as it was developed by Quakers
But, nevertheless, a number of on licences. And not just restaurants. If you are able to confine your drinking to summer weekend afternoons Sanderstead Cricket Club would be the place for you. You might even get 5 seconds of fame on their excellent YouTube channel.
Re Nork. In 1991 I once walked all the way from Sutton to a garage in Nork who were repairing my car after an accident. All the way down the A217 and turn right at banstead crossroads. And I didn't choose the garage it was the insurers. I still think my problem left foot corns and blisters started that day.
That's the sixth comment about tomorrow's post. Some people just can't hold it in :)
I am hoping for news of NOSH in Nork - so looking forward to the next instalment.










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