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The lighter background colour is nice, but now the sidebar seems too dark in contrast. Might need to lighten that to #CCC
Dazzling Darren | 07.02.22 - 7:06 a.m. | #
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Very much enjoyed the bin talk, by the way.
Dazzling Darren | 07.02.22 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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How about the Nine Elms Tavern?
Eric | 07.02.22 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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Yes i noticed the colour change.... after i read it :). Its a bit easier on the eyes reading for some reason, even though before i never thought it was hard to read.
Has the font slightly changed as well?
Agree with Dazzling Darren regarding the side bar.
Will blogspot ever allow your site to be formatted to it can read on a mobile phone?
Bruce Wayne | 07.02.22 - 7:08 a.m. | #
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The new background looks good to me. It improves contrast legibility without the glare that white would give. And your text is a sensible (black, or very dark grey) colour and not the illegible washed out grey that requires user css to make legible.
So I'd say keep the new background.
harry | 07.02.22 - 7:13 a.m. | #
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The aerobes look fun, sorry to have missed them.
Kevin | 07.02.22 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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But when I scroll down to "10 thinks that happened ..." the pink stands out as being a bit muddy ... perhaps you could find a cleaner / lighter colour for that in future.
harry | 07.02.22 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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You can walk through The Arches that run under Charing Cross Station by the entrance to the Ship & Shovel pub. It's a bit wider and more commercialised than French Ordinary Court and certainly lacks the atmosphere you describe.
dg writes: added, thanks.
IanD | 07.02.22 - 7:23 a.m. | #
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Who doesn't enjoy an occasional gusty flap?
Fnaar Fnaar | 07.02.22 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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The Seven Stars is a little gem. Glad to see it's still in business.
daveid76 | 07.02.22 - 7:48 a.m. | #
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Definitely prefer the platinum background.
Keith | Homepage | 07.02.22 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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Another preference for platinum background.
Also I always understood that solid rubbish bin design in public places was to encourage the blast from terrorist bombs to go upwards rather than outwards.
richard | 07.02.22 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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You might have looked this one up and rejected it - its own website is distinctly 'groovy bar' and up its a**e. But it is linked from a website called 'pubology' so maybe it counts - the Nine Lives.
mark addy | 07.02.22 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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Along with the Nine Elms Tarvern, you could go for the round dozen with the South West Eleven in Battersea, and the Twelve Pins in Finsbury Park.
Then, of course, there's the Sun and Thirteen Cantons...
Steve | 07.02.22 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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There is also Nine Lives bar in bermondsy street.
Also sky bar 9.
kerspatula | 07.02.22 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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The Seven Stars used to have a resident cat who the landlords would occasionally dress in a ruff. (That was about 15 years ago though so I doubt it's still the case)
martin | 07.02.22 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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I think Waterloo would count, you can walk underneath.
Jonathan | 07.02.22 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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The Nine Elms Tavern is too recent to appear in the database of pub names I was using, sorry. Added, thanks.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.02.22 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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So far we have found 4 trees commemorating the Queen's coronation - listed on this page.
Please tell us if you know of others.
London Remembers | Homepage | 07.02.22 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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Diamond Geezer in platinum, please, and anyway not in a gold setting. Pearl maybe, soon, so possibly even lighter. I always wondered why the dark grey. Wibble, wibble.
MartinG | 07.02.22 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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Shame about Cards Galore but no doubt the reshaping of the high street will continue. Clintons was bought out of administration by its shareholder (for a second time) in December 2019 and quite a few of its stores have closed since then. Perhaps, in an age of online social media, greeting cards are on the way out, like telegrams and handwritten letters.
I’m sure the pubs have been struggling too and I wonder how many will survive. Like a message from simpler and happier times, here is Boak & Bailey (blogging on beer from London, Penzance and now Bristol for 15 years) on 19th London pub names in February 2020, with reference to George Dodd’s “The Food of London” published in 1856, with a “one to ten” and other items.
Andrew | 07.02.22 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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Litter bin: fascinating piece of artwork. Perhaps the Tate Modern could have several of these arranged with different amounts of gale.
Background: don’t mind. Do what you want. Words and pics are excellent, whatever.
Herbof | 07.02.22 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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The Twelve Pins Seven Sisters Road, and The 12th Knot Battersea are pubs higher than 10
Andrew Jarman | 07.02.22 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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Wow, they have tarted up Leeds station undercroft since I was last there. It used to be a dark, rather scary tunnel with the River Aire flowing noisily beneath.
Petras409 | 07.02.22 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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South West Eleven is a pub in Battersea apparently. Seven Stars is a lovely pub.
Background colour I am fine with
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 07.02.22 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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This looks like a post especially designed to increase the number of blog comments in the Great February Countdown.
Wibble, wibble, wibble.
popartist | 07.02.22 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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We know that DG isn't a gay man in his early 20s or else a certain other 'Two Brewers' might have been the first preference compared to one in Croydon!
(Also one more vote for Platinum; it's easier to read).
Jamie | 07.02.22 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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The original background colour is less glaring for me, as someone who has many and varied visual issues.
It's disappointing that there isn't an official list of Coronation Oaks. Is there any official system (website?) being set up for marking the locations of the many trees being planted for this Platinum Jubilee? Or maybe that would just be carte blanche to anti-Royalists to seek and destroy them...
Those aerobes look like they are repurposed plastic easter eggs. I wonder what the risk assessment for that exhibition looked like?
Blue Witch | Homepage | 07.02.22 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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"I wondered, is there any point writing a review of something you can't go and see any more?"
Exactly the problem of concert reviewers and, until streaming services*, TV reviewers.
* video recorders don't count because you'd have had to know to set the bloody thing
AlanBG | 07.02.22 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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I only ever read the blog on mobile platform and never had a problem with the font/colour. It's fine
Rachel | 07.02.22 - 11:05 a.m. | #
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Blue Witch
Everyone planting a tree for the Queen's Green Canopy Initiative is encouraged to register it on the website here.
Friar Sven | 07.02.22 - 11:52 a.m. | #
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Bruce Wayne: On my Android mobile I use naked browser. It reflows text beautifully to fit the screen. But it's very old-fashioned, doesn't work with flashy modern websites, and has no bells and whistles. Perfect for DG's marvellously unpredictable and informative blog.
mikeS | 07.02.22 - 12:11 p.m. | #
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Comparing the grey in this box to that on the blog, the lighter is easier to read - but that could also be because the font is bigger!!
I'm happy either way. It's the posts I come for which is why I hadn't even noticed until you pointed it out!
If you are doing an overhaul though, the blue links on the dark grey in the side bar are rather hard to see.
Cornish Cockney | 07.02.22 - 12:15 p.m. | #
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I was very struck by the brilliance of ‘One over the Ait’ when I first saw it. Still am. And indeed, Brentford Ait is just alongside.
Bruce Perkins | 07.02.22 - 12:37 p.m. | #
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The Cards Galore in Paddington station was definitely still open when I passed just before Christmas, so maybe all hope is not yet lost.
Steeevooo | 07.02.22 - 12:50 p.m. | #
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I thought the aerobes were brilliant and quite hypnotic, I hadn't realised that they were ending yesterday or else I would have made an effort to see them again.
Fenchurch Street has a selection of roads going underneath it, it seems unique as a London terminus station with no or little undercroft.
Mikey C | 07.02.22 - 1:04 p.m. | #
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Didn't notice the colour change. Now that I have, I like it.
Nick | 07.02.22 - 2:02 p.m. | #
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There's also the "Seven" formerly "Seven Balls" in Kenton Lane, Harrow Weald.
Platinum is good and then the sidebar could be paler as well.
Mike Roberts | 07.02.22 - 2:32 p.m. | #
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Can confirm that the Cards Galore behind the ticket line at Westminster station is still trading.
Gunnersaurus | 07.02.22 - 2:35 p.m. | #
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Lovely post, so many comment-worthy points in a less-wibbly stylee..
Pubs: yes, more of these. Always.
Cards: no surprise, as few send cards these days except to people as old or older than your parents.
Aerobes: I spent a happy 30 minutes watching them. Frankly nothing happened.
Bins: meh. Trees: more, everwhere please. Leeds: the best. Background: better!
Frank F | 07.02.22 - 3:55 p.m. | #
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Wibble - prefer platinum. I read it on a mobile.
Lorraine | 07.02.22 - 4:01 p.m. | #
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There used to be two 'Two Chairmen'. One being the current one on the south side of St James's Park, the other (now closed) on the north side near Trafalgar Square (Warwick House Street). Less than 800m apart as the crow flies. A lot of social events involved people meeting up at the wrong pub without even realising that half the group were elsewhere.
[Google suggests there's also a "Crown and Two Chairmen" in Soho.]
Adrian | 07.02.22 - 4:58 p.m. | #
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Didn't notice the background change until it was pointed out, knew something looked different, but couldn't work out what it was
Tom | 07.02.22 - 7:03 p.m. | #
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Re: Adrian's comment - similar thing has happened in Soho where there are two Coach & Horseses about 100yds apart, one on Old Compton St and one on Greek St
Gunnersaurus | 07.02.22 - 7:20 p.m. | #
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Platinum results
Much prefer it: 7
It's nicer: 5
No opinion: 4
It's worse: 1
No comment: 2481
So I might leave it.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.02.22 - 11:00 p.m. | #
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I actually was on londonbusroutes.net and the grey reminded me of here, so I came here and smugly thought to myself "Aha, they ARE the same colour!"
Turns out that they usually aren't, grr.
Daniel | 08.02.22 - 1:14 p.m. | #
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I think the open litter bins were a reaction to terrorist activities
You don't need to remove the lid cover to see what has been placed inside.
Polly | 09.02.22 - 11:01 a.m. | #
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