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diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.21 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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4 - terrific choice, I heartily echo your praise. Hoping next month you recommend something that I haven't already listened to.
Frank F | 01.12.21 - 7:09 a.m. | #
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22 - Canning Town, so that’s where the ‘allo ‘allo gendarme, Officer Crabtree, moved to after ze war. I’ve often wandered.
Jo W | 01.12.21 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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14 - is 'original' a protected term?, for example if the company no longer exists, or you acquire the name, then calling it 'The original xxxxx' is legally neutral, even if others infer that that it has a connection to the previous business.
For example in the USA in 1998 a rail company acquired the 'PAN-AM' identity after it went bankrupt and in 2006 rebranded itself as Pan Am Railways.
Still Anon | 01.12.21 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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14 - I'll forever associate Benjy's with a job I held for about a year. I had to go in at 7am every other week and Benjy's was what made it possible to get to lunch without fainting. Other breakfast options were available, but I'm a cheapskate.
Chz | 01.12.21 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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19. Are you sure it wasn’t Bluebell, the lost budgie?
Geofftech | 01.12.21 - 8:29 a.m. | #
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29 - and to think a few months ago Tesco was selling off excess stocks of pasta overordered during pandemic lockdowns very cheaply. And a glut of white Italian OO flour for 15p a bag
Milest | 01.12.21 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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A prime example of a DG random pot-pourri. And the sellotaped notice about Bluebell is heartbreaking...
cau1khead | 01.12.21 - 9:03 a.m. | #
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30 - I also immediately interpreted the sign as a chocolate bar before reading your description.
kev | 01.12.21 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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14 - ah Benjy's with its surley staff and rubbery torpedo rolls. Amazingly busy cos they were cheap and Greggs hadn't really turned up.
But looking at Companies House, I'm struggling to see a link between 'new' Benjy's (assuming the right company but it looks likely) and the original given the original collapsed in 2007 and was finally dissolved in 2013. Maybe someone retained the trademark. Or maybe they've used used the name.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 01.12.21 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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26. Intriguing. Have I missed something?
What special location did you visit unexpectedly last Friday?
Timbo | 01.12.21 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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9: While holding a civilian conversation is not only commendable, but also an expected behaviour, I certainly hope the neighbour in concern has not noticed or read this entry, nor would she ever do.
Patrickov | 01.12.21 - 10:02 a.m. | #
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29: A classic example of how shelf prices aren't always what you have to pay.
Sainsburys have also pushed up their pasta to 70p but that's only for people not signed up to their SmartShop and Nectar.
I can buy 70p packs of penne for 49p this week and one of those packs will also give me 15p worth of Nectar points in return.
I wish supermarket shopping wasn't so complicated. Yet to be in a Lidl this week but I bet their excellent pasta isn't 70p.
ap | 01.12.21 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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17 Quick thinking on your part, made me smile.
Michael | 01.12.21 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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14 - This is the type of vitally important news which I wouldn't have found out on any other site. Takes me right back to my student days in the early 00s, at Kings College London and having Benjy's probably 4 days a week.
gooneruk | Homepage | 01.12.21 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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26- Timbo, DG said questions won't be answered!I expect it will be the basis of a future post...
jeremy | 01.12.21 - 10:37 a.m. | #
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3. My area has various posters for a FOUND cat, which makes a change...
Mikey C | 01.12.21 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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3) Poor Bluebell
6) A blessing in disguise!
10) & 29) It always amazes me what's unavailable from my delivery order! Generally I've found prices have gone up about 30% over the last 20 months or so - but is it thanks to Brexit, the pandemic or both? Sadly having them both occur at the same time muddies the water when trying to calculate the impact of each individually.
17) Perfect timing!
23) This year I've decided to make my own using Publisher!!
26) I will have to go back and see if you blogged about that extra experience now.
28) Went to bed after midnight and noticed the house opposite was lit up like, well, a Christmas tree! Technically it was the 1st Dec, but as they hadn't taken them down all your it was only a case of switching them on again!
30) Oh dear! This is a prime example of why I don't favour roads being named after people!
Cornish Cockney | 01.12.21 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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20. "Ah" as an interjection has many meanings. But the variant spellings "aaah" and "aaaw" seem to have become very popular recently, always with the meaning "how sweet!".
Malcolm of Kent | 01.12.21 - 10:52 a.m. | #
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3. We lost a budgie when living in Stepney in the 1960s/70s. It was - with startling originality - called Bluey and made a break for it while its cage was being cleaned. As we lived on the 13th floor it had a head start. I remember the milkman helping us in the thankless task of looking for it. Another of our budgies died of natural causes and my dad buried it in the graveyard of Bow Church - reckoning that it would be sacrilegious to bury it in the grounds of our own Catholic Church but fine in a C of E one!
Joan | 01.12.21 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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17. The person I sent the photo to has only just worked out why I sent it.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.21 - 11:49 a.m. | #
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18. That will only work so many times ... up to 3 where I am, and you'd be out of luck before then if the book has been requested by someone else.
miker | 01.12.21 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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3/Mikey C - I don't think anyone truly 'finds' a cat, it finds you.
Still Anon | 01.12.21 - 12:04 p.m. | #
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2 - At last. I never understood why it was closed for so long. I shall make use the next time I'm in London.
11 - I'm sure two minute silences never used to be as much of a thing as they are now (except in Stoke Newington High Street perhaps) with people in the past only paying attention if they were actually at a remembrance service.
18 - I always borrow loads, read some of them, return most of them unread after I've renewed them on the website three times (which is the limit)
27 - I have the same feeling every time I visit. I much preferred it when it was at the National Theatre. It felt like more of an event rather than just a sideshow.
Anders | 01.12.21 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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25, Boring anecdote - I also changed the batteries in a thermostat for the first time this month!
Westerleigh Junction | 01.12.21 - 3:37 p.m. | #
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11. I am old enough to remember when everything did stop at 11am on the 11th. Pedestrians stood still on the pavement, cars stopped on the road and even the buses didn't move for 2 minutes.
29. Tesco's dark chocolate ice creams were £1 for a pack of eight earlier this year. Now they are £1 for pack of six of the same-sized ices.
popartist | 01.12.21 - 4:33 p.m. | #
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26. I didn't have a place worth mentioning (as far as I can recall) but I really enjoyed reading the comments.
Kevin | 01.12.21 - 6:24 p.m. | #
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26. I wanted to comment how enthralled I was, both by the original post, and by the many fascinating visits described by readers. But such a comment would have been out of place among such a treasure chest, I felt.
Malcolm of Kent | 01.12.21 - 11:05 p.m. | #
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Days which have not inspired comment:
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(but the majority have, cheers!)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.12.21 - 12:02 a.m. | #
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23. Bought an A5 2022 diary at WHS, same price for a 2 pages a day version as the 1 page a day version, odd!
J. | 02.12.21 - 12:10 a.m. | #
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4) Thanks for mentioning "What's Funny About". I have been listening to it and it's fantastic.
ST | 02.12.21 - 5:38 p.m. | #
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29. Cornish Cockney - it might also be a result of increased transportation costs following the expansion of the London ULEZ zone. It's £100 per a day for a lorry (though TfL have special deals for hauliers, such as £240,000 a year for an operator with a fleet of ten vehicles).
RogerW | 02.12.21 - 6:42 p.m. | #
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