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27. Pedant alert. E170 models are not the predominant type at City Airport, you didn't watch a stream of E170s. You probably did watch a stream of the slightly bigger E190 type though. (And you deliberately tease us with a photo that isn't an Embraer at all)
17- "Wiv a ladder an some glasses,you could see to 'ackney marshes,if it wasn't for the 'ouses in between!" 😄😄
30: I'm sure @whs_carpet would enjoy your discovery (and maybe have something even older in their archive)
30. Did you get to Redbridge in the end?
3. Have also been. And was quite underwhelmed (even after discovering that until September it has inherited the limited service Angel Road had). Convenient for IKEA, though.

26. Tilbury is maybe a rival, albeit a little bit further out
These are fast becoming my favourite blog posts. Well done DG.
14. Glad to know I'm not the only one; the deli counter at the Tesco in Huddersfield has closed as well, with loaves of prepackaged bread taking its place and only the halal meat counter remaining as a social good. Now I go to the deli counter at Sainsbury's and ask the staff to cut me my preffered portion of cheese, hoping that they don't go the same way as Tesco's. (and now I have a sinister project name to Google). Those Tesco numbers in full.

21. Another privately-owned public space for London, I take it. Be sure to keep an eye out for any security staff if you visit, DG.
4. Thank you for mentioning 63up, been following that for years and didn't realise it had been on
22/23. Hope you get your confidence back. Maybe a visit to a cat cafe is needed.
11. Reading through the Unblogged list puts the reader in the position of George Smiley analysing the Merlin documents in Tinker, Tailor, as the plainly topical are sorted from those that could have been prepared in advance to cover, for example, a day traveling.
28. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-police-facial-recognition?

dg writes: No
4. I look forward to this every 7 years, and somewhere have them all recorded.
The Tower Hamlets girls made great contributions to society, but the premature deaths are sobering, as I am a touch younger at 61 Up.
11. Morden Hall Park floods on purpose. If the walkway in question was anywhere near the river, they're using the park as reserve capacity to prevent flooding downstream. A lot of the embankments have been removed or changed to a more porous type to allow this to happen. Turns out concrete embankments just make flooding worse.

If it was nowhere near the river, that's just poor landscaping.
5) Did they send a reminder to renew your licence ? I have been told they don't, so if that's true there must be many people who do not realise theirs has expired.

dg writes: You have been told wrong.
4 I have also enjoyed following ___up. I'm slightly older than them so have watched from the beginning.
26: Many years ago I had my worst ever supermarket cafe meal in that ASDA. Followed by a public consultation meeting where I was lucky to get away afterwards without being beaten up.
8. (And you deliberately tease us with a photo that isn't a Freikörper at all). Though actually a pretty good photo.

How would one be intentionally interrupted by such a band?
30: I can do you a millennium dome, never been out of its box. 20 years of dust included for free...
8: We saw a Red Arrows flypast from the platform of Folkestone West Station yesterday afternoon.This was after a weekend visit to Dover Castle - the things we chose to explore in detail exactly mirrored your choices - an amazing place. The new marina area is nearly finished and it is definitely up and coming on the sea front.
15. Apparently there isn't a code for Upminster-Hammersmith on the S Stock (at least not via the top side of the Circle), so that may explain the switcheroo.
5. an "EU" driving licence that won't be a EU driving licence...in my opinion our European "friends" will be pleased in making us apply for an International Driving Permit once (if) when/however we end-up leaving. We'll probably also have to cough-up a Green Card. Plus continue to abide by their "enhanced" rules when it comes to items such as spare bulbs/warning triangles/hi-viz jackets, etc.

30. Once every 4 or 5 years, i take a stroll into a WH Smith...and every time not disappointed in feeling as if i've stepped into a place where time has stood still.
30. WHSmith is definitely in a pocket dimension that lags between two and twenty years behind the real world.

Even their website is still celebrating their 225th anniversary, 227 years after the company was founded.
11 On 10 June, it rained almost continuously from around 04:00 - midnight around that area. Cheam had 66mm rain that day and Carshalton supposedly around 80mm. Some of the rain was extra heavy for short spells although the threatened thunderstorms and potentially heavier rain in the evening kept away.

Haven't been in the park for about a month, but I assume that there would have been a lot of surface water still draining away the next day.
27. i really hope that you experienced a bit more diversity than just E170s ... but then your photo suggests that you did :)
10. How long did your new licence take to arrive?
10. I left that as a comprehension exercise for the reader.
4) Thoroughly enjoyed it too. We watched 7, 14 & 21 over 3 terms as part of our child development class at uni in the 1980s. Have always wondered what happened to those who dropped out of the series over the years too.

8) Can you imagine if the naked bike ride had got mixed up with the Trooping of the Colour parade!

14) I've noticed a decline in deli counters too - maybe they'll make a comeback if people start taking their own containers to fill and demand that the ever diminishing choices be reinstated.

17) Having a NW/SE orientation to my house this time of the year is one of the few times I would probably be able to see both the sunrise and sunset from the same window - if it wasn't for all the other houses in the way!
Same would be true for the winter solstice sunrise/set out of the back window.

29) On the hottest day of the year it's more advisable to be inside the National Archives in Kew, than walking 7 miles of the Capital Ring nearby!
10) My cut up driving licence is still setting a bowl in the kitchen some si months after I did what you did yo get a new one. I have not had aggrieved DVLA henchmen knocking on the door.

30) Earlier this year I accidentally shoplifted a set of playing cards from the WH Smith in Lewisham.
15. The Upminster-Hammersmith service is a lot more common than you think - I've seen them at least once a day on weekday mornings. But they start off as District to Aldgate/Aldgate East (that's how you know) then they change to Hammersmith & City at Barking.
4. 63 Up was magnificent television and very moving. I was fascinated by the precociousness of 21/28 being replaced by a more relaxed and genuine wisdom. I found this very encouraging. It was also fascinating to see how some struggled with keeping on appearing in the series - so refreshing to have real 'reality' on TV. Next time will be the big round figure. I hope they make a season of it and repeat full episodes, as I felt that the time given to each person and the look-back clips were getting briefer than before. Finally, it left me with a very positive sense that every life is a fascinating and valuable thing.
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(but the majority have, cheers!)

15 - There'll be another unusual service on the 13/14 July: Barking to Edgware Road via Victoria, nominally as the Circle line. Since I plan to be in London on the 13th, I will make sure I go and see how that is handled.

And since I might as well comment on one of the as yet uncommented days:

9 - My guess is that they want to get on with building HS2 before anyone can cancel it!
7. The only time i use cash is for a monthly haircut at a barber who doesn't pay tax - sorry, i meant, only takes cash.

some interesting info here about the switch away from cash.
7. A shout out for the Nationwide branch on Roman Rd a few doors along from the Barclays. For all intents and purposes a bank and opens half an hour earlier, which is nice.

28. They are definitely tracking numberplates. You would enjoy perusing the datasets these surveys produce. They have been gathering the current motor traffic movements as part of the council's Liveable Streets programme. Trial road closures/bus gates will be implemented in a couple of week's time around the Tredegar Rd area. They'll then have a before and after dataset. Although the trial is only for a week which doesn't seem very long but then we're into the school holidays and the usual reduction in peak motor traffic journeys anyway.
13. Two people successfully conducting an illicit affair are highly unlikely to allow one party to be "doused in a cloud of perfume". Or so I'm led to believe.. (ahem).

Given the dress code and age differential, it may that the female was subordinate, and seeking advancement. Or they simply could be in love. I hope it is the latter.
28. I've now had a leaflet about the Bow Liveable Streets trial through my letterbox, and there's a website here. Comes with an impressively unhelpful map.










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