please empty your brain below
I live in Lee.

Susie | 02.10.08 - 8:12 a.m. | #

I haven't seen the new 20p yet. I must go check my change immediately. I didn't know if I'd like the new designs but I do.

Kennamatic | Homepage | 02.10.08 - 9:45 a.m. | #

I've only had the 2ps, but none of the others. Can't help but like the remarkable shiny-ness of them. Makes you want to not spend them.

Jag | Homepage | 02.10.08 - 10:00 a.m. | #

My favourite UK place name is Wideopen, Tyne and Wear. Perfect place for dentists...though it is also very striking when printed as two sepatate words on the back doors of vans.

Bina | 02.10.08 - 10:03 a.m. | #

I met Dr Who in Bix. TRUFAX!

Scaryduck | Homepage | 02.10.08 - 10:10 a.m. | #

In its optimistic last hurrah in the late 1950s the British Waterways Board commissioned a fleet of new narrow boats, which were named after three letter rivers: ALT, AXE, CAM, DEE, TAW, WYE, AWE, ANT, AYE, ELY, EXE, FAL, HAY, KEW, LYN, RAY, ROE, RYE, TOW, URE, WEY, YEO, and LEE, and to spoil the pattern slightly, ANNE and BERYL. Known as Blue Tops, because they had blue fibreglass covers over the hold instead of the traditional cloths, they were ugly, swam badly and were very unpopular with the boatmen who reputedly called them 'dustbins'. The end of commercial canal carrying swiftly followed. Sadly, there wasn't one named after my own local three letter river, the Uck.

Sarah | Homepage | 02.10.08 - 10:30 a.m. | #

Since Boris changed the rules, I live in Cro.

Embo | 02.10.08 - 10:42 a.m. | #

Shepherd's Bush Market station is has been open for years. It just isn't called that - yet.

You report that the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines will be fully operational this weekend. How on earth can you know that ? There may be no planned disruption.

Pedantic of Purley | 02.10.08 - 10:42 a.m. | #

I can't see how you compiled that list of three-letter place names using those two links. Unless you looked at every page, scanning with your bare eyes, which is surely beyond the call of duty. (Anyway, the GENUKI pages can't be trusted: doesn't London count as a place...?)

Wayne | 02.10.08 - 11:51 a.m. | #

My favourite place name is Nob End (two threes) which is near another great name, Moses Gate, both of which are in Bolton

Johnny Topaz | 02.10.08 - 11:54 a.m. | #

Following Sarah...was there a bluetop narrowboat called the Sow....probably a pig to sail like all the "dustbins"?

Yes there is a River Sow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River\\_Sow

Bina | 02.10.08 - 12:13 p.m. | #

I've only had the new 1p, 2p, and 5p so far. And spent the 5p by mistake. I keep being disappointed by 2007 minted 20ps which are very shiny, but of the old design.

martin | 02.10.08 - 12:17 p.m. | #

There's a Lincolnshire village called Aby

Forest Pines | Homepage | 02.10.08 - 12:32 p.m. | #

I live in the 'cobbled timewarp hilltop' of Rye, on one of the slopey sides of it, to be precise. If I had known you'd be arriving, I'd baked a cake. But nice to hear you enjoyed your day.

Camellia | Homepage | 02.10.08 - 12:37 p.m. | #

I just had a slight panic that the old coinage was going out of circulation because that would mean actually having to bag up the waste paper basket full of coins. But Phew..no need to take action. I can leave that on the very long list of things do to for the Another Day category.

Amused | 02.10.08 - 3:02 p.m. | #

I now live near a (possibly the - are there any others?) two-letter place name.

And only the new pennies and the five ps seem to have made it up here so far, although I check my change religiously...

disgruntled | Homepage | 02.10.08 - 6:01 p.m. | #

Remarkable, absolutely remarkable.

There have been 15 comments already, and none of them have been about the tube, bus, e-mail or Olympics parts of this post. As for three-letter place names, I think it's worth saying, for the record, that the Olympics will be mainly in the Lea Valley, and this includes the canoe slalom in Broxbourne as well as the main Olympic site in Stratford.

I've only seen the new design 2p so far. I had to do a double take when it was given to me, as I initally thought the coin was foreign.

I'm also wondering whether bendy buses will be history from 2013. As for tube lines, isn't the East London Line closed until 2010, and thus technically all this weekend?

Andrewh | 02.10.08 - 6:09 p.m. | #

To be scrupulously exact you have to watch the two-year extensions on the contracts, which has already extended the 12 to 2011 leaving the 38, 507 and 521 expiring next summer. This would also extend the 436/453 to 2015, which is why that date is commonly found in 'bendies phased out by' articles.

Most of my contract stuff is lifted from http://www.londonbusroutes.net which is one of those occasional one-man tour-de-force sites that knocks official sources into a cocked hat.

Thanks for the link.

Tom | Homepage | 02.10.08 - 8:29 p.m. | #

Wood Lane opens Sun 12 Oct, same day Shepherds Bush (Met) becomes Shepherds Bush Market. No date for Shepherds Bush (Cen) to reopen yet.

Bowroaduk | 02.10.08 - 9:48 p.m. | #

[post updated in line with information received]

diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.10.08 - 12:04 a.m. | #

The shortest place-name in the UK I know of is Ae: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ae,...es\\_and\\_Galloway

Ollie | 03.10.08 - 2:13 a.m. | #

From passing through Shepherds Bush Central Line this morning, I can say that it definitely doesn't look finished. There are still bits of wiring hanging out, and the plastering and painting on the wall opposite the platform clearly still has several nights' work to be done.

So yes, I'd say it probably will open tomorrow.

martin | 04.10.08 - 1:50 p.m. | #











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