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diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.12.23 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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4) I like some Banks more than others. I think you'd struggle to find a better opening line than "it was the day my grandmother exploded".
16) I've been enjoying an app-based word game called GUBBINS. It's free to play once a day, but I liked it enough to pay to play more often.
25) Mog's Christmas & Tabby McTat: feel-good felines
Martin | 28.12.23 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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1) Still using antique metering equipment? My electricity company knows my usage to the minute, and rewards my meter’s “smartness” with very cheap (for 2023) tariffs. 🐙
17) A daily occurrence in Chingford. They’ll soon outnumber the pigeons. 🦜
Dan | 28.12.23 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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17th Wait until the red kites reach you. They steal food, and unlike foxes they don't wait until it's in the bin. Any alfresco meal is at risk.
Timbo | 28.12.23 - 7:55 a.m. | #
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22) Sad to see the A&N at Manor Park go - I bought my first rucksack there in 1962, together with a bright orange "Government Surplus" anorak that stained my clothes as soon as I wore it in the snow of 1962/3.
Rob Gullen | 28.12.23 - 8:15 a.m. | #
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17 : I've yet to see parakeets but would love to - where's the best place
Caroline | 28.12.23 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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17) Ring-necked parakeets are now a common sight in Claybury Park (and in my back garden too).
22) That A&N photo brought back memories - I bought stuff there in the 1970s. I hadn't realised they were still in business up to last September; if I'd known, I'd have made a final pilgrimage.
Alan S | 28.12.23 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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27 I was on a rail replacement bus yesterday as well, probably a different one. Despite a huge queue at Witham and a traffic jam on the A12 I still managed to get to Stratford fifteen minutes earlier than I had expected. But the trains and underground were packed, packed, packed...
davews | 28.12.23 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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7) That's interesting to hear - when I was a traffic warden (civil enforcement officer) we were explicitly trained to avoid issuing on surrounding roads when a funeral was taking place. Maybe it's different up London. (Or maybe the obstructive parking produced complaints)
Jamesthegill | 28.12.23 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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7: quotas for outsourced enforcement operatives
8: Multiple options are possible, maybe even probable
20: annual prescription pre-payment?
27: experienced similar recently in Paris when RER B from airport was closed due to engineering. The regular Roissybus seems to use vehicles totally unfit for airport service, best avoided. Roll on Grand Paris Express.
27 Davews--at least you managed to stick with the cheap trains rather than being sold the Ely alternative route which is usually twice the price
MilesT | 28.12.23 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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20. Miles - please refer back to Unblogged September where you queried the same thing.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.12.23 - 10:10 a.m. | #
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8 All three conjectures are true.
Pianowerk | 28.12.23 - 10:17 a.m. | #
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20. Obviously the big plus of turning 60 (which I did this year) is the Oyster 60+ pass) but I hadn't realised that prescriptions become free too. And eye tests. So you've got that to look forward to!
Joan | 28.12.23 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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Always enjoy your unblogged lists.
18. This is on a regular running route and I can confirm it’s a b*gger to run up. And down. Where you took your photo was the site of my biggest scare when running, spotting two white tigers resting as I approached the bottom of the path. Turns out someone had dumped two life-sized soft toys. flic.kr/p/2pp5tXq
Lux | 28.12.23 - 10:44 a.m. | #
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11 - that could easily have been me smiling at the next table (it wasn’t)
Stephen | 28.12.23 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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Drinking in Highgate, eh?
Kim | 28.12.23 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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4 - Pedant's corner. Am I the first person to notice your mis-spelling of Margaret Atwood's surname?
Ian Paton | 28.12.23 - 11:24 a.m. | #
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4 - Opens the concept of suggesting acclaimed authors whose surname begins with 'C' that you could read. Albert Camus, perhaps.
Trevor S | 28.12.23 - 12:34 p.m. | #
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17 : at some times you can see parakeets in Ramsgate. Alleged descendants of escapee parakeets from 1950s who survive in mild climate. There are some in South London too.
Half a physicist | 28.12.23 - 1:10 p.m. | #
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4 - I'm consumed by a new-found curiosity about Catherine Cookson.
18 - Surprising to find Brockley Footpath in SE15 rather than SE4.
cau1khead | 28.12.23 - 1:34 p.m. | #
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17. There are a lot more than ‘some’ parakeets in south London.
Vlad | 28.12.23 - 1:49 p.m. | #
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17. Recently had the first parakeet sighting in rural Oxfordshire (cycle / footpath between Abingdon and Sutton Courtenay)
John Styles | 28.12.23 - 3:42 p.m. | #
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17 South London has been swarming with parakeets for years.
AlanBG | 28.12.23 - 3:47 p.m. | #
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17 About 120 parakeets meet at the woods by South Norwood Lake at dusk and fly off to the South en masse. Probably to Waddon Ponds where about 800 roost.
18 At the north end of Brockley Footpath (which was called Nunhead Path at one time) was a cast iron gents urinal. It was very rusty and stank. Do any of these survive?
Alan JS | 28.12.23 - 5:27 p.m. | #
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13) Since the Radio Times in a normal week is a rather pricey £4.50, I was pleasantly surprised to have to pay only a pound more.
20) You're lucky. Ever since I've needed more than one medication, my GP surgery has insisted that I can only be given one month's supply at a time.
Chris L | 28.12.23 - 5:44 p.m. | #
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18. brockley passage locally known as dog shit alley, with good reason
chris torrible | 28.12.23 - 6:23 p.m. | #
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2 - The beginning of December was bitterly cold, but the rest of the month has been ridiculously mild!
9 (and 25) - I found the 3 Tennant specials OK, but nothing special. Ditto the Christmas Special. I hope the new series next year has better stories.
Mikey C | 28.12.23 - 6:24 p.m. | #
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1) are you with OVO? They recently decided to triple my direct debit, and when I looked at my online account my usage and bills were so wrong they could have been hallucinated by ChatGPT. Can’t help but think they had a systems issue which affected more than just me!
Rob | 28.12.23 - 7:08 p.m. | #
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3. I hadn’t imagined you saying “divine”, though I fully understand the reason.
20. Prescription? Should you blog any health issues? We followers of many years do care about you, you know.
Sally Hirst | 28.12.23 - 9:19 p.m. | #
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(questions will not be answered)
...is often followed by half a dozen questions.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.12.23 - 9:48 p.m. | #
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28) Thank you for going back to the Christmas Eve post and enhancing it. Public service blogging at its best.
Bob L-S | 28.12.23 - 11:21 p.m. | #
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3. That cafe is at the end of my road!
9. Best Dr Who's ever! Haven't seen the Xmas special yet though.
17. Parakeets are old hat - now I look out for red kites from my windows!
25. For me those Xmas reviews fall into 2 two-word categories; 'still unwatched' and 'never watched'!
28. Off to re-read the 24th.....
Cornish Cockney | 29.12.23 - 12:36 a.m. | #
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Days which have not inspired comment:
5 6 12 14 15 19 21 23 24 26
(but the majority have, cheers!)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.12.23 - 12:47 a.m. | #
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29. I enjoyed reading about Bethlehem Close.
Hadders | 29.12.23 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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6: As a matter of fact I brought a can of Coca-cola home before Christmas, but after that I have only drunk two cups of Pepsis.
Patrickov | 29.12.23 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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9/25 Dr Who is now drop-dead gorgeous too.
NickW | 29.12.23 - 9:21 a.m. | #
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1 - EDF forcibly switching from quarterly to monthly billing, then failing to be honest about it, saying the Energy Ombudsman (after saying / retracting it was OfGem) to do it, which only improves their cash flow. Same people who mulcted Grayson Perry for £39k and then said it was an 'error'. How many others have been conned by them?
17 - parakeets thronging Victoria Park - noisy communal flashes of high speed green!
Joel | 29.12.23 - 12:23 p.m. | #
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1. In the US, we get a 'cheerful' pre-bill letter from the electric company informing us how our current usage compares to our neighbors. A recent one said we were doing "GREAT"--saving more than all our neighbors. And then the bill arrived a week later: it was twice as much as the previous monthly bill. God help the neighbors.
Mary | 29.12.23 - 7:39 p.m. | #
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As others have said, the Brockley Footpath really is grim. Shortcut of last resort. When I do end up taking it the temptation is always to sneak up onto the reservoir which reputedly has amazing views. They have recently started doing open days apparently.
Tom | 31.12.23 - 1:54 p.m. | #
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