please empty your brain below
If relevant, please start your comment with a number from 1 to 28.

(questions will not be answered)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.03.23 - 12:00 a.m. | #

14: the same week, I sent two postcards from the Isle of Barra to opposite sides of London, first class. One arrived the next morning; the other took a leisurely 8 days. Horses for courses.

martin | 01.03.23 - 7:42 a.m. | #

5. It looks like your photo of 35 Uxendon Crescent is actually a photo of 39 Uxendon Crescent. According to Google Street View images, number 35 was still in its original form as of December 2020, and I think I can see it lurking relatively unchanged in the background of your photo. Cheers.

dg writes: if you zoom in, it says 35 on the door.

Richard B | 01.03.23 - 8:01 a.m. | #

I'm totally honoured that you counted my mistakes, dear Diamond Geezer! And to be touché'd!

Joseph C | 01.03.23 - 8:02 a.m. | #

5. Do look at the Google Street View images. It does look like 35 on the door in your photo but the GSV images clearly show 39. Cheers, R

Richard B | 01.03.23 - 8:09 a.m. | #

4. I think there's only a small subset of people who find ip4 addresses person friendly

10. The rotherhithe vicar is becoming quite the fixture on this blog.

Ian | 01.03.23 - 8:21 a.m. | #

5. Ah yes, sorry.
I've now added a completely new number 5, and nobody who reads this later will have any idea what we were talking about.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.03.23 - 8:31 a.m. | #

5: Your secret is safe with me. R

Richard B | 01.03.23 - 8:36 a.m. | #

5 Maybe if you had spoken to the new occupants at your childhood house they might have been interested in what you could tell them about its history.
About 15 years ago I went to the house in Twickenham which I grew up in in the 1950s, a 3 bed terraced house with outside loo.
By chance the current resident owners came along and were so pleased to know from me about what the house was like that they took me inside to see how it was now.
As Twickenham had gone very upmarket by then it was almost unrecognizable to me inside being gutted out and rebuilt.

John | 01.03.23 - 9:00 a.m. | #

21. The shrieking woman of Sydenham. I get the feeling she's got a learning disability rather than a drug habit. She lugs her obese frame up and down Sydenham Road every day and there always seems to be some unidentified crust around her mouth as well.

Once I told her that she needed a social worker and not money, she said "I'VE GOT A SOCIAL WORKERRRR!!! :(" and started throwing her toys out of the pram as I hopped into the Pound Plus. "She's there every day" said the proprietor. "I know", I said.

On another occasion, in inclement weather, I asked her if she was warm enough (I would have bought her a jacket from a charity shop) and responded with an unrelated question of her own, most likely a request for money. Some people there's no helping.

Does anyone remember that woman in Catford and surrounding areas who wanted money "for baby food" and if you refused, offered to show you her nipples to prove she was breastfeeding? Not seen her in many years.

A G | 01.03.23 - 9:03 a.m. | #

9. I see what you did there :)
11. Best wishes to DGD.
12. Better that way methinks.
28. Love those bookshelves. Where can I buy some?

Blue Witch | 01.03.23 - 9:12 a.m. | #

9: You could easily do a post entitled "111 Buses that You Shouldn't Miss" with pictures taken between Kingston and Heathrow (via all the Hs).

Steve

Steve Conway | 01.03.23 - 9:23 a.m. | #

9. Steve - If you're going frpom Kingston to Heathrow, the 111 is a bus you definitely SHOULD miss. (You could get there AND back on an X26 in the same time)

18. Whilst waiting at a bus stop yesterday I saw a timetable for route 775, which was a summer only service, Wednesdays and Sundays, and last ran in 2017.

27. being slow on the uptake, I only went to Bank yesterday. Looks good, although signage could improve as the simple words "Way Out" aren't very helpful when there are so many of them. Didn't have much time to look around because of problems on the Elizabeth Line.

timbo | 01.03.23 - 9:39 a.m. | #

8 - standardisation claims another victim. Surprised it escaped when they widened that part of the North Circular in approx. 2010.

21 - or as Brian Clough would have said - 'she met me'.

25 - the Crocuses have erupted from various locations a couple of weeks ago, the first leaves of the random poppies have started appearing.

Still Anon | 01.03.23 - 10:24 a.m. | #

22 - Two smoke alarms in a house are far worse as it's hard to locate which one is beeping. A process of elimination by taking out one battery doesn't always work either as it invariably happens when the house is warming up in the morning and the dying battery then gets enough new life to register as having enough charge again.

Andrew S | 01.03.23 - 10:50 a.m. | #

22. "Disposable" smoke alarms with 5/10 year batteries are available, just put a reminder in the diary for 4/9 years to buy a new one.

And in any case the sensor inside most smoke alarms is only viable for 5-10 years; some will beep if the sensor is EOL, many don't, please check the expiry dates on the alarm.

Expensive non-rechargeable lithium batteries will also delay the inevitable with the current alarm (also good for e.g. smart thermostats, battery clocks etc.) Or get an electrician to wire a mains powered one into the lighting circuit.

MilesT | 01.03.23 - 10:52 a.m. | #

28 - it's a lovely building, must pop in to see that exhibition. The modern sports centre next door is nicer than the original one inside, but architecturally doesn't match the library now

Mikey C | 01.03.23 - 11:27 a.m. | #

27 As an infrequent user of Bank I always feel like the exit signs should say 'quickest way to ground level this way'

cjw714 | 01.03.23 - 11:57 a.m. | #

2: I suppose it's not something easily avoidable on a westbound District train during midday?

Patrickov | 01.03.23 - 2:41 p.m. | #

7. I'm stuck in a 1990s time warp as far as TV channels are concerned!

11. Best wishes to DGD

19. Congratulations to your nephew

Cornish Cockney | 01.03.23 - 2:56 p.m. | #

8. Is the pre-Worboys sign on Theobalds Road still there?

Matthieu | 01.03.23 - 3:22 p.m. | #

11 - Best wishes to DGD for his continued recovery/adjustment.

Frank F | 01.03.23 - 4:30 p.m. | #

4. IPv6's "human readable format" is utterly evil. Somehow I have largely managed to avoid it as most things I deal with professionally either hide that or don't support it. Yet.

Kirk | 01.03.23 - 4:52 p.m. | #

5. My next-door neighbour recently needed her bathroom moving, so called on the services of a local plumber. She was out one afternoon and asked the plumber to give her door key to me. Turns out, he grew up in my house. I showed him round...

ChrisL | 01.03.23 - 6:06 p.m. | #

5. Thanks to Instant Street view, it is interesting to see the house I lived in, from 1946 (3 weeks old) for nearly 25 years. Were I to return with a camera my excuse would be that I wanted to photograph the side of the house where aged about 10 I put a scar about 3 inches long on my hand from a rose bush whilst pretending to be Freddie Trueman. Everything has changed, that part of the garden extinguished by a huge extension, probably explaining why its value went up by a factor of well over 150 over the past 50 years!

J. | 01.03.23 - 6:10 p.m. | #

Days which have not inspired comment:
1 3 6 13 15 17 20 23 24 26

(but the majority have, cheers!)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.03.23 - 11:59 p.m. | #

12. Your comment of "Up yours, Elon" pretty much sums up my feelings about everything the twit Musk-rat does and/or owns.

Mary | 02.03.23 - 12:32 a.m. | #

5. You may have deleted all mention of Uxendon Crescent but you have left the photo in the Twitter post announcing this blog. That may cause a few scratched heads. I used to live down the road from there, so retain an interest.

Lucy Garden | 02.03.23 - 8:08 a.m. | #

26 - This kind of answers my comment from the previous day, as I now know that you use "rail" within zones 1 to 3, and use buses to access outer London!

Mikey C | 02.03.23 - 9:33 a.m. | #

5. Some years ago, we took my parents to see our son's family in Eastbourne. My dad was evacuated there (from Croydon) and wanted to see the house where he stayed.

As we got there, my dad said the exterior had hardly changed. Then the owners came out and my dad cheekily asked if he could have a look round inside. To my surprise, they agreed and he spent about 15 minutes having a guided tour!

When he came out, he was quite emotional and said, apart from general redecoration and a modernised kitchen and bathroom, it was very familiar, especially "his" bedroom!

The house where I was born has been altered by having a loft room built on the back. The house where we lived until I was 18, has been converted into 3 flats with the help of a loft conversion.

John Simmons | 02.03.23 - 7:46 p.m. | #

12. Ha! Elon’s switched the live feed back on after six mute weeks, so my ancient Twitter app is working again and I’m chuffed I wasn’t tempted into updating it.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 31.03.23 - 11:43 a.m. | #











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