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If relevant, please start your comment with a number from 1 to 31.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.11.18 - 12:10 a.m. | #

...no mention of job-search: have you retired?!

Grumpy Anon | 01.11.18 - 7:08 a.m. | #

18: Where’s that cafe in Epping Forest? Sounds great. Is it the biker hut?

Dan | 01.11.18 - 7:46 a.m. | #

31 - the nature of Hallowe'en seems to have changed, it now seems to be a primary school activity (text reminder from the school for your child to bring a pumpkin with them), as a result older teenagers are now 'too cool' to do the same stuff that little kids do (plus you can stay at home and play GTA or whatever).

Still Anon | 01.11.18 - 7:47 a.m. | #

31: I don't like years when the 31st is a Wednesday because that is wheelie bin day, meaning little in bin to wedge against gate, keeping out the trick or treat mob.

J. | 01.11.18 - 7:50 a.m. | #

24: No one fishing? Or don't they allow that anymore. Back in the day the rods were so long you had to hop over them as you went along the towpath.

Mike | 01.11.18 - 8:25 a.m. | #

26: As you seem to be a completionist, I take it you will be doing the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line sometime between now and the 31st of December.

Barry | 01.11.18 - 8:27 a.m. | #

1: Personalised number plates.
A very public demonstration of the trimuph of disposable income over common sense.

24: But how many boats did you pass. And of those how many were moving?

SAM
Ryde
IoW

SAM | 01.11.18 - 8:29 a.m. | #

15. Thanks,DG. Nearly choked on my cup of builders, still,there's nothing like a good guffaw to clear the chest. 👍🏻

Jo W | 01.11.18 - 8:38 a.m. | #

6. Surprised Dreamland can afford to turn any punters away on a rainy October day.

12. Sometimes the self-service queue is quicker than waiting for a manned till.

20. Ran over a seagull once. Crunch. Wings akimbo.

Andrew | 01.11.18 - 8:54 a.m. | #

17: I was sure they were cronuts, and Google tends to agree (1.97m v 13.7k hits).

Sashina | 01.11.18 - 9:15 a.m. | #

2. "This bus is ready to depart". Only heard it on one bus journey so far - I think it was a 69 or 97.

martin | 01.11.18 - 9:35 a.m. | #

How do you fit all this in the time available and write a blog too. Are you Superman - or is there more than one of you???

Boxer | 01.11.18 - 9:42 a.m. | #

#20 - I feel fairly certain that pheasants are the second-most suicidal animal that humans interact with on a regular basis. For the most suicidal, it is every sheep's life-long desire to die and the shepherd's job to stop them.

Chz | 01.11.18 - 10:00 a.m. | #

29 June Whitfield continues to be "and June Whitfield"

coffin dodger | 01.11.18 - 10:11 a.m. | #

22. Without realising this was the first day of operation I chose this day to bus into Stratford rather than my usual cycle or Tube. The bus driver announced a couple of times that the bus would be turning right at the next lights (Morrisons) but there was only minor confusion among some passengers. However at the bus station they had workers in hi viz vests shouting out to pedestrians that traffic now came from both sides, but as DG implies it seems an accident waiting to happen.

Tim | 01.11.18 - 10:20 a.m. | #

Even your non-blogged events are interesting!

16. I was really excited to recognise those flats you blogged about, on Sunday's episode! Almost in the same league as seeing someone you know on TV!

17. Never heard of Crodoughs though I agree, cronuts does roll off the tongue better, so clicked the link! Oh my days!!! I'm gutted to see they only seem to be in E1, but perhaps that's for the best!!

28. In my house it's more of a 'digging out the winter jammies and hogging a bit more of the duvet' day!

Cornish Cockney | 01.11.18 - 11:07 a.m. | #

16: While I appreciate the art of the apparently hand-drawn portrait, I am afraid that this is probably not the best illustration of the Doctor.

Patrickov | 01.11.18 - 11:52 a.m. | #

12. I wish Aldi and Lidl had handheld barcode scanners with their own self-serve checkout. I'd rather be out the door in 15 seconds instead of queueing forever behind someone who insists on laboriously packing each individual item into their trolley and who is gobsmacked to find they are expected to make a payment as well.

Gerry | 01.11.18 - 12:31 p.m. | #

1 Poncey numberplates are all but compulsory in Clacton. Sums those east of London immigrants (or is it emigrants) up to a tee.

9 Looking forward to viewing the finished article up close

Scrumpy | 01.11.18 - 12:56 p.m. | #

I could happily see this as a regular feature.

Harry | 01.11.18 - 1:34 p.m. | #

17. @Sashina: Cronuts are a registered invention of a New York-based baker.

Crodoughs are similar enough and different enough.

Anon | 01.11.18 - 2:24 p.m. | #

21. Unless someone with deep pockets buys the rights for the specific purpose of eradicating it, a la Byker Grove, there will NEVER be a last ever series of Big Brother.

Jonathan | 01.11.18 - 2:24 p.m. | #

30: I saw Princess Anne this morning in St James' with her outriders!

Flanders Valhalla | 01.11.18 - 3:26 p.m. | #

1. When you were in Farnborough did you visit the tomb of Napoleon III?

dg writes: It wasn't that Farnborough.

Arkady | 01.11.18 - 3:34 p.m. | #

15: most of October was spent on holiday by (lucky old) me. I drove up to the entry station at one particular Utah National Park, which I haven't visited since 2011. The kindly ranger checked my park pass and driving licence for photo ID, then asked, "Are you excited?" Well, yes, came my surprised response, it's been a while since I've visited.

"No, no, about the baby!"

I suppose, given that on my June trip to Vegas all the locals wanted to talk about was the wedding, it was inevitable.

And somewhere in Utah there's a National Park ranger who has promised to think of me on the day it is born. I am... bewildered.

mightymouse | 01.11.18 - 4:18 p.m. | #

7. Saw this through the window when I walked past there on a Sunday and it was closed and decided it wasn't worth going back on a day it would be open. (And I quite *like* minimalist abstract art).

It's not the first exhibition on City Island. The same gallery - Arebyte, used to be near Hackney Wick - has hosted a couple of shows since moving to this new location. Lawrence Lek's Nøtel - https://www.arebyte.com/lawrence-lek - was pretty intriguing. It had some VR stuff.

Joris Gillet | Homepage | 01.11.18 - 5:38 p.m. | #

Days which have not inspired comment:
3 4 5 8 10 11 13 14 19 23 25 27

...but the majority have, thanks!

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.11.18 - 6:02 p.m. | #

20. Is that a reflection of DG in the 80th birthday balloon? A rare sighting?

Wild Edric | 01.11.18 - 7:41 p.m. | #

1. I cannot imagine myself ever buying a personalised number plate, or even wanting to. But an otherwise sane relative has several, so I just have to remind myself that different things please different folks, and there's no accounting for taste.

Malcolm | 01.11.18 - 11:58 p.m. | #

I love these monthly comments, although about the only thing I can add is that I once killed a chicken while learning how to ride a scooter.

cjw714 | 03.11.18 - 2:04 a.m. | #

18: (partly @ Dan). If the cafe at Epping was 'the biker one' it'd be the one at High Beach.
The first time I saw a written reference to this place my first assumption was that it was a spelling error, because surely a forest location implied it ought to be Beech. (Nope, apparently it is supposed to be Beach.)
I'm guessing, however, that dg is referring to a different cafe. The 'biker cafe' may well have gone up in the world from the wooden shed it once was... but I can't say I've ever seen sausage paninis on their menu...

RogerW | 03.11.18 - 12:09 p.m. | #











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