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You're number 1 in my list DG.
Jeremy | 06.07.20 - 7:10 a.m. | #
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Please don't.
I'd prefer you to comment on the post :)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.07.20 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same
PJS | 06.07.20 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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“ If you're a 67 year-old man who likes recounting vintage bus anecdotes, however, I doubt you'll find anything of interest here.”
Tut tut. Nor will the 67 year old woman who likes reading vintage bus anecdotes! She won’t find anything there either.
She will carry on reading DG every morning for the sheer joy of it. Keep going.
Vee Jay Em | 06.07.20 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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I'm with Jeremy. No.1 read every morning. TVM.
Petras409 | 06.07.20 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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Thank you for helping me through the Lockdown
MG | 06.07.20 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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'I am not a number, I am a free man'.
Why is that blog ranked higher than mine?
Still Anon | 06.07.20 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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With the exception of the truly excellent A London Inheritance, none of the others on this list come close to the high quality to be found here.
dg writes: With respect, that’s bollocks.
And none are so eclectic, or uber-niche at times!
Frank F | 06.07.20 - 9:11 a.m. | #
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As Petras409 has said, DG - I've been reading your blog every day for the past 5 or so years now. So you must be doing something right, to keep readers like us coming back.
Sam | 06.07.20 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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Size isn't everything, apparently.
Brian | 06.07.20 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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A distinctive and addictive style? I'll second that. This is hands down my favourite blog.
James Armitage | Homepage | 06.07.20 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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What constitutes 'London' this time? The 32 Boroughs, inside the M25?
Jonathan A | 06.07.20 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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I like your blog, Ian Visits and want to plug a friend who is visiting every Tube Station and the immediate environs, 60andthenext10.blogspot.com, Stepney Green featured this week.
As a foreigner, that is enough London for me.
Andrew | Homepage | 06.07.20 - 11:37 a.m. | #
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Well done for making it to 39th. I would’ve placed you first.
I’m surprised John Rodgers’ The Lost Byway didn’t make the cut. He does some fascinating walks around London (his local area of Leytonstone during lockdown) talking about history and sights of relatively innocent suburbs. He also makes well-edited YouTube videos.
PVR | 06.07.20 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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"I'm surprised [X} didn't make the cut" is always shorthand for "I would have done this differently." As would we all.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.07.20 - 11:41 a.m. | #
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Definitely number 1 in my books.
I do look at some of the others, but often just scan the title and move on.
Yours is the one I read word for word every single day.
Cornish Cockney | 06.07.20 - 11:47 a.m. | #
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Congratulations. Into the top 40 with a bullet! (best read aloud in a Radio 1 DJ voice).
One small thing – you've confused London Eater with Eater London, I think. The latter will be the high-rated blog (london.eater.com) and posts a lot. Easily done, as their URL is distinctly confusing.
dg writes: Feedspot may have done this. I have copied them.
Chris M | 06.07.20 - 11:54 a.m. | #
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Can't remember exactly when or how I discovered you DG, but very pleased I did. I read your blog every day.
Anybody who can describe a bus ride and make it a great read gets my vote.
Richard | 06.07.20 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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I'd put you and Ian in joint first (though you're the better writer). I'd never heard of A London Inheritance before, and it looks fascinating.
Chz | 06.07.20 - 12:43 p.m. | #
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Should be Number 1.
Discovered by chance when I was trying to find out how to get to the View Tube when work was developing on the Olympic site.
I am constantly sending links to family and friends about different topics.
Cheers me up, is informative, great photos, quirky topics, makes me laugh, I could go on and on......
A big thank you
g.chingford | 06.07.20 - 12:48 p.m. | #
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It seems to me that you need to change the name of your blog to London Geezer if the top ten of Feedspot's rankings are anything to go by.
I have no great interest in London but your blog is sufficiently eclectic and wide ranging to cover many subjects which I enjoy reading. You are an excellent writer who doesn't pander to commercial interests and, indeed, periodically satirises PR outfits who attempt to get you to endorse their clients.
milliem | 06.07.20 - 4:24 p.m. | #
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39 is an infinitely more interesting number than 1, were you to ask me.
Cau1khead | 06.07.20 - 4:54 p.m. | #
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It was a different cabdriver’s blog that first brought me here several years ago and as with some above logging is now my first act on waking. But I’m now extra grateful as you’ve introduced me to “A Cabbie’s Blog”which is also right up my street. Thank you.
Keith | 06.07.20 - 6:25 p.m. | #
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Definitely No1 in my book, discovered you when London was awarded the Olympics, and then read back to your early blogs, Thanks to you I've found some interesting places when I've come up to London, keep up the good work.
Rob S-L | 06.07.20 - 8:10 p.m. | #
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I remain convinced that A London Inheritance truly is excellent. The rest: tongue in cheek, but not "bollocks". Apologies for the lack of sychopancy on my part.
Frank F | 06.07.20 - 9:41 p.m. | #
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Many many congratulations! I read Londonist and London Reconnections, although the latter seems to have become a lot more quiet in recent years. But your blog is the most entertaining and interesting - so well done especially as I know all the writing and research really must consume an awful lot of your time!
Will B | 06.07.20 - 9:46 p.m. | #
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Just been perusing some of your earliest blogs in 2002.There were a lot of zeros in the response comments box back then.
Full marks for your perseverance in continuing from a none too encouraging beginning; long may you continue.
dg writes: I didn't have a comments system for the first month, hence the zeros.
Richard | 06.07.20 - 9:59 p.m. | #
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Coming up 17 years as an almost daily reader.
Great Aunt Annie | 08.07.20 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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Ah, I'm down to 41 this week.
I have been leapfrogged by London New Girl (who hasn't posted in the last three weeks) and by Emily Underworld | A Lifestyle & Witchcraft Blog by a London Student.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.07.20 - 3:58 p.m. | #
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Woohoo, 17th.
(just behind London Is Cool, which has recently been overtaken by gamblingspam)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 22.07.23 - 4:24 p.m. | #
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