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diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.25 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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1) I think that's an old box that been taken out of use. The new ones have solar panels on top.
dg writes: updated, thanks.
Michael | 01.12.25 - 7:26 a.m. | #
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30) Vowelless carols would have been SO much easier but alas they were consonantless.
dg writes: updated, thanks.
JP | 01.12.25 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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1. From the finished ones I've seen, the top will indeed end up as one with solar panels. The main back bit (still there in your photo) should form the main part of the updated box with a new front door added that includes a smaller letter posting slot and barcode scanner / parcel posting drawer. So I think the end result should be a mixture of old and new.
Chris Atkins | Homepage | 01.12.25 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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10. I quite often go to theatre performances outside London (including in Norwich) if they’re something I’m interested in which isn’t likely to transfer to London. But I don’t generally find out about them from leaflets in Tesco, so you’re probably right.
22. I kept a list of Pimlico Plumbers number plates for a while, cross-referenced to the vans’ serial numbers (P161 on your picture). But after a while, I realised that they seem to swap the plates between vans, so gave up.
Baldassaro | 01.12.25 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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21. The GP surgery that serves my 90 year old father-in-law has recently told him that they will no longer accept emails for repeat prescriptions (of which he, understandably, has quite a few). Instead he needed to register with the NHS App. It took my husband a big chunk of a weekend visit to him in Shropshire to get a photo and ID approved. I'm sure it will be great now it's set up, but how many very elderly people don't have the support network to sort this stuff out.
Joan | 01.12.25 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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2. Point of order. It's a fugly widebeam, not a narrowboat.
(with apologies for pedantry)
Mr Peloton | 01.12.25 - 8:57 a.m. | #
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26. Very pleased and honoured to know that both our book and my Sutton trek get the DG seal of approval!
Mike Hall | Homepage | 01.12.25 - 9:08 a.m. | #
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21 - The government replaced the Liverpool Care Pathway with bureaucracy that requires the use of technology that many of a certain age aren't familiar with.
Still Anon | 01.12.25 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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1. As there is almost as much pillar box below ground as there is above ground, it would be too difficult/expensive to dig them out - so they are merely modifying them (as |Chris above says). Several have already been done around here and the results have hugely upset those who make post box toppers, and those who enjoy them: toppers can't now be put on the tops due to the solar panels.
25. I've never found Richard Herring funny and I find his comment about "hopefully he has died by now" in very bad taste. How could anyone construe that as amusing?
30. Thank [insert deity of choice] for that.
Blue Witch | 01.12.25 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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24. I'm still working through the Map Men book, and I see what you mean about certain chapters feeling a bit thin. I think the YouTube series is brilliant but the book does feel light and frothy (still enjoyable though).
WoodfordWanderer | 01.12.25 - 9:55 a.m. | #
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23. Chalky mud might might be marl (a loose or crumbly earthy deposit containing a substantial amount of calcium carbonate). Possibly more or less calcareous (limestoney) or argillaceous (clayey)
Andrew | 01.12.25 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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8. For more details of the Bluebird K7 and the presentation at the Lady Mayor's Show, see here
The Company prides itself in promoting engineering, but it's a bit weird to show this tragic memento - with no real connection to London - as a symbol of British competence.
martin'O'Holcombe | 01.12.25 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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23. God, that windmill photo is gorgeous!
All Over 2a | Homepage | 01.12.25 - 10:40 a.m. | #
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10) The tourist attraction leaflets you find in general places like supermarkets, shopping centres and motorway service stations always seem rather geographically random. The Norwich Tesco probably has ones for Warwickshire or Windsor.
28) Are they definitely "new season" Creme Eggs, and not ones left over from Easter 2025?
Mikey C | 01.12.25 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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8) historical pedantry: in some of the 700 years it wasn't described as a show, but as a triumph. (More pedantry in the comments stream on ianvisits)
10) potentially cheaper to see a show in Norwich, rail ticket included. But still not the right demographic for the leaflet.
MilesT | 01.12.25 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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27 - I would be interested to know whether there are any specific regulations concerning the addition of a cat flap in a grade 1 listed cathedral.
kev | 01.12.25 - 10:59 a.m. | #
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22 - Do Pimlico Plumbers still acquire those punning number plates following Mullins sale of the firm and departure?
Kim | 01.12.25 - 11:16 a.m. | #
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20. The only time I agreed to buy cigarettes for someone (on Scout camp for a fellow leader ironically), the transaction was accompanied by much "They're not for me" mumbling. I've since always refused; if you can't get them yourself you can go without, and perhaps resolve to give them up to save the hassle. Mind you, as a confirmed tea drinker I'm not much better ordering someone a coffee now it's all got so complicated.
Andrew S | 01.12.25 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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4. Congrats on recognising Ginger, she's certainly not the most memorable winner! Hope you enjoyed the latest series of Drag Race UK.
dncn | 01.12.25 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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27. On one of my recent visits to the Cathedral I caught glimpse of the Bishop surveying the congregation in the cafe, but I have yet to meet Hodge. You are very fortunate, though it is perhaps unsurprising that the frequency of sighting a clergyman over a cat in a cathedral falls the way it does.
Michael T | 01.12.25 - 12:11 p.m. | #
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5: They should get Michael Caine to re-open it.
sheepdog | 01.12.25 - 1:21 p.m. | #
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27. The 7th century church on the Dengie Peninsula is well worth the effort, indeed the pilgrimage-like effort required to get to the church in the middle of nowhere is part of what makes it feel special. One can definitely feel the weight of history as one walks the final stretch on the old Roman road.
Suffolker | Homepage | 01.12.25 - 1:32 p.m. | #
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22. I’ve added this to my collection of Pimlico Plumbers number plate photos that I took while working around London a few years ago:
C15 TEN
2 BOG
8 OG
B16 LAV
K1 BOG
GAS 6
TO11 LET (my favourite)
F10 ODD
13 OG
RAD150N
PM11 LCO (as Eric Morecambe would say: “All the right letters but not necessarily in the right order!”)
Chris C | 01.12.25 - 1:36 p.m. | #
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(unusually, no comments so far on 11-19)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.25 - 3:07 p.m. | #
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27: Ah, the Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, brought to my attention by Robert Macfarlane in his Landmarks book.
As Suffolker says, well worth the effort, especially if you've walked St Peter's Way (from Chipping Ongar) to get there. Then walking to Southminster railway station to return home.
sheepdog | 01.12.25 - 3:08 p.m. | #
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11. Somewhat eerie, I would not want to walk past on a dark night.
15. A poster I first saw in 2016 at Moorgate station of a V&A exhibition from 1997, unearthed as part of renovations is one of my favourite poster ads. Surprisingly I haven't been back since Covid to see if it's still there, I imagine not.
16. This is my fear from decriminalising weed, the strains over the last 10-15 years are so rank-smelling.
18. Quantifiably worse than primary school children are Spanish teens, had to damn near punch my way through to get off after they boarded at Cutty Sark in a pre-pandemic encounter.
19. At least no apostrophes are involved.
anon | 01.12.25 - 4:02 p.m. | #
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2: Laughing out Loud - what a classic!
21: I'm dreading having to apply for a postal vote online as they didn't send me a paper form and I have no idea how to put my signature on an online form!
It will look like one of those squiggles the post office face when presenting their machine!
25: I'm sure this blog end up triumphant!
Cornish Cockney | 01.12.25 - 4:23 p.m. | #
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17. The truth is out there.
David B | 01.12.25 - 4:23 p.m. | #
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13. Is a pancake really more a meal than a 'dinner'.
popartist | 01.12.25 - 4:52 p.m. | #
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14. I went on this walk after you wrote about it for the first time (2016?) and really enjoyed it. Even then the end of it's lonely fate was inevitable. I'll will try and go again soon to see for myself.
MikeK | 01.12.25 - 4:52 p.m. | #
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28 Lots of different bags of mini eggs in the festive selection at Wimbledon Aldi last week. I went since when's that been a Christmas thing?
ap | 01.12.25 - 6:31 p.m. | #
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#20. Was this shopping trip a result of a passive addiction which began with #16 ?
#16 - The weed epidemic is so widespread that there aren't many public places that don't stink of it at any time of day. Monged out Britain!
Anyoldname | 01.12.25 - 7:59 p.m. | #
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Days that haven't attracted comment:
3 6 7 12 29
(but the vast majority have, thanks)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.25 - 11:55 p.m. | #
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3. I also live on the same street as a Poldark, Aunt Agatha in this case. She's well into her 90s, still regularly out & about, and easily the best dressed person on the road.
Steve | 02.12.25 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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20, 27, 29: more socialising and “we”’s than is normal in a typical unblogged!
David | 02.12.25 - 11:36 p.m. | #
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1. Why does a pilar box need electric power?
dg writes: there's a link in the post where the answer is given in the second paragraph.
John Rimmer | 03.12.25 - 3:23 p.m. | #
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