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A post that exemplifies why we enjoy this blog so much. The airport codes list is the icing on an already-delicious cake.
DavidC | 18.11.20 - 7:19 a.m. | #
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The M10 is an ex-motorway
The M63 (now part of the M60) is also an ex-motorway
David Cohen | 18.11.20 - 7:38 a.m. | #
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'The M10 is an ex-motorway' is the comment in today's sealed envelope.
(I'm celebrating my win with a Creme Egg)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.11.20 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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Strange there are no complaints yet about diversity intruding everywhere in life these days...
Waterhouse | 18.11.20 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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Bus stops that are Roman numerals: M, D, C, X, V, I.
Jimmy | 18.11.20 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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Are you only counting sea islands otherwise have you not been to l'ile de la Cité in Paris?
Anyway I think I might have a go at this list for my own travels. Thanks for the idea.
richard | 18.11.20 - 7:59 a.m. | #
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Yes, I'm only counting 'sea islands' (otherwise the list gets somewhat unmanageable).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.11.20 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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How about UK station codes that are also Roman numerals? MCV (also an airport) is the only one I can think of without actually thinking about it
Harry | Homepage | 18.11.20 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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Hope one day of reading a report of you heading back to Cornwall and going to the Scilly Isle
John | 18.11.20 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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I find that I have only been through two of those airports, total MDCVI.
Martin | 18.11.20 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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Fully agree with DavidCee. This is DG at his best.
Roland | 18.11.20 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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Without looking anything up, I'd say from the BBC1 schedule that it was a Tuesday or Wednesday.
NickW | 18.11.20 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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Full list of UK station codes that are also valid Roman numerals: CCC, CDI, CLI, CLV, CML, LIV, MCM, MCV, MDL.
Harry | Homepage | 18.11.20 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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My word, that's good value today.
Sarah | Homepage | 18.11.20 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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I wonder if I'm alone in thinking that the BBC offering of 50 years ago would still probably entertain me more than the BBC schedule today. I can still feel the anger of injustice in being allowed to watch the news, but being sent off to bed with the wonderful opening title music of Sportnight trailing behind me!
Frank F | 18.11.20 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Surprised you have never been to Sark.
Barry Arnold | 18.11.20 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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M96: pathetic.org.uk/secretive/m96
Fred | 18.11.20 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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Never realised that Portland was classed as an island, albeit I think a rather tenuous one.
Airport Roman numerals brought a smile to my face this morning. Niche!
David | 18.11.20 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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I would have preferred it to have been Chigley, and then I could have sung, 'time flies by when I'm the driver of a train '... which I will do anyhow, all day! (but not the Half Man Half Biscuit version)
PJS | 18.11.20 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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Ah, Camberwick Green! Peter The Postman, Windy Miller, Mrs Honeyman et al. Happy days.
Was I really still watching it when I was 12?
Richard | 18.11.20 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Simply wonderful.
Michael | 18.11.20 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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What about Thanet? (In modern times it has been circumnavigated in a canoe).
Malcolm of Kent | 18.11.20 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Can you have 'been to' your country of birth and where you reside?
Guinness, why Sport in 1957, but Sports in later editions.
BBC1, although Nationwide and 24 Hours were current affairs programmes, the actual news bulletins were surprisingly short (Closedown was at 13:53 for the 13:45 news), in fact most of the programmes were short 'The Doctors' is 25 minutes not 30, also only two start on the hour, Nationwide and Nine O'Clock News.
You left off the morning stuff for schools & colleges (A Year's Journey: The Grand Union looks interesting), Nai Zindagi/Naya Jeevan and Disc a Dawn.
Still Anon | 18.11.20 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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Thought it must be the croutons that added to the weight of Cup-a-Soups - but then came Minestrone at the bottom
John Abbott | Homepage | 18.11.20 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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Zealand is a province, not an Island. It's comprised of many islands but not an island in itself.
That is, if you are talking about the Netherlands...
dg writes: I'm not.
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 18.11.20 - 8:55 a.m. | #
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News and weather should be reduced because it is filled out with speculation and opinion. Tom and Gerry slotted in to that space would make a welcome return.
scrumpy | 18.11.20 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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Pedants Corner: there are two motorways with 90+ numbers. There's the M90 in Scotland and the M96 - which is actually a former airfield at the National Fire Service College in Moreton-in-the-Marsh, which is mocked-up (and numbered) as a motorway, and is used by the emergency services and Highways England for practices and testing. I know, 'cause I've stood in the middle of it.
I really should get out more.
David Croser-Drake | 18.11.20 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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I guess NI is exluded too as the M22 runs from the A26 to the A6 near Antrim.
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 18.11.20 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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Perhaps a list of eyots at some future date?
Philip | 18.11.20 - 10:10 a.m. | #
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What a fantasic post - especially the ice-rink portion, a kind-of blog equivalent of John Cage's most famous musical composition! And I would recommend Orkney as your next island-hopping destination, if only to bump up the total with minimum input.... once you get there, that is!
Cau1khead | 18.11.20 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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You must have visited Museum Island in Berlin too, even if it was just on the S Bahn going west from Alexanderplatz.
Proof: flickr.com/dgeezer/18679205885
Mike | 18.11.20 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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As someone else commented, the news bulletins were much shorter then. TV channels were also less preoccupied with programmes starting neatly on the hour and half hour, you checked your Radio and TV Times to get the times!
Mikey C | 18.11.20 - 10:30 a.m. | #
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I'm surprised you've never been to Eel Pie Island in the Thames near Twickenham.
Mikey C | 18.11.20 - 10:34 a.m. | #
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Two observations.
1. Barry Arnold has a point.
2. Absolutely superb. As others have said, it is the unpredictability that makes this blog required reading.
3. I lied about there only being two. Conflating Roman numerals and airport codes is magnificent.
Nicely done Sir!
Stuart R | 18.11.20 - 10:45 a.m. | #
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Totally agree with the commenter who said to shorten the news and bring back Tom & Jerry!
One memory I have is of my brother and his mates over for an O level revision session in 1981, but instead watching Camberwick Green - and joining in most enthusiastically too!
I used to love the Mrs Pepperpot books.
Cornish Cockney | 18.11.20 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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DG’s Zealand, aka Sjælland, is the Danish island (where Copenhagen is). The next on his list is Amager (Kastrup airport), & the next is Peberholm, a tiny island part way along the bridge connecting Denmark & Sweden.
Toni | 18.11.20 - 11:14 a.m. | #
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Pretty sure 4-year-old me would have been watching those episodes of Play School and Jackanory. I always liked the precision of the 5.44 start time for The Magic Roundabout.
Jonathan Wadman | 18.11.20 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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I was going to ask if you'd been to both Holy Islands, or which: but then found there are three in (or should that be off) Great Britain - with more elsewhere
Jeremy GH | 18.11.20 - 11:31 a.m. | #
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How many does Venice count for islands?
Robert Butlin | 18.11.20 - 12:43 p.m. | #
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The M41 was a rubbish motorway that still has a sign up showing by the Tesco on Cromwell Road.
It is the original name of the West Cross Route from SheBu Holland Park roundabout to the A40(M) original section Westway.
Something you never needed or wanted to know.
Jamie Awdry | 18.11.20 - 12:51 p.m. | #
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Does the Isle of Grain not count?
Jamesthegill | 18.11.20 - 2:36 p.m. | #
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I would guess the Holy Island is the English one (Lindisfarne) since it is listed with Inner Farne, rather than with Anglesey or Bute.
My island tally is slightly more than DG's, mainly because I've visited the Scillies.
timbo | 18.11.20 - 3:11 p.m. | #
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You could have stretched these out all week...
Your ability to knit posts out of a lockdown continues to amaze me.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 18.11.20 - 4:11 p.m. | #
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Tomato and Basil 104g.
dg writes: Updated, thanks.
(Sainsbury's sell two that Tesco don't stock)
Running_Correspondent | 18.11.20 - 5:32 p.m. | #
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Well done DG, a fascinating post, just what we need in lockdown.
And you've set me off with an atlas and my fading memory - counted 41 islands I've visited so far...
(Was tempted to inflate my total by including Isle of Dogs, it is next to tidal water after all, but decided not too!)
IslandDweller | 18.11.20 - 5:51 p.m. | #
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What about Foulness Island - England's 4th largest island and Wallasea Island which is the 10th largest in England?
Paul S | 18.11.20 - 6:34 p.m. | #
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I'd like to apologise to everyone who thinks I should have gone to different islands.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.11.20 - 6:43 p.m. | #
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I have probably done more Pacific islands than DG has in his list, but counting the islands I have visited would leave me no time to read the next few blogs.
Mike Roberts | 18.11.20 - 6:58 p.m. | #
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What island have you not been to, but want to?
R | 18.11.20 - 7:01 p.m. | #
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Don't give up totally on ice-skating - these look as though they still hope to open:
» Queens House, Greenwich
» Hampton Court Palace
MEL | 18.11.20 - 7:17 p.m. | #
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1957 Guinness Book of Records. Humans sound like they have just been discovered. Five 'worlds', one universe. Ruled over by The Animal Kingdom. Everyone plays sport (possibly around the structures), and there are few accidents and disasters. Sounds way better than 2020! (Nice post, DG!)
Jayne | Homepage | 18.11.20 - 7:31 p.m. | #
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Re. Numbers that aren't UK motorways
Just to let you know that there is a M12 and a M22 in Northern Ireland. Two more to cross off your UK list.
Peter Crowther | 24.11.20 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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