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Might have been from any Premier Inn and accidently dropped, which is not the same as discarded.
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It may or may not be obvious where I went.
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You gave it away when you mentioned "hot estate agent". There are very few hot estates in London.
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Funnily enough I saw the rail adhesion train at White City last night and vouchers for Northolt McDonald's had been delivered when I arrived home. Is that close?
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A Paisley headscarf turns out to be something different to what I expected. I thought it would be a sarcastic term like Croydon face-lift or Brixton briefcase. So disappointed. I thought my street talk would be enhanced.
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There's a very good reason why Superloop consultation should include stops the propsoed service won't serve, as the plan usually involves reducing the frequency of the all-stops service it is intended to duplicate.
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Funny you should mention 'pensioner who walked to the station just to pick up a Metro'. I was on a bus last week and a lady put her hand out to stop the bus and told the driver she just wanted a copy of the Metro - she promptly boarded the bus, grabbed her paper and immediately got off again.
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Did you go to Hanwell?
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I don't hold out much hope for that particular pub, sadly. I do hope however that we will get to read about your perambulations yesterday, however bleak.
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The pendant in me takes issue with 'discarded keycard from nearby Premier Inn.'
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What is a hot estate agent. Is it someone marketing property in Dubai?
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Word of advice scrumpy, don’t risk being a pedant if you can’t spell it.
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...and it's "accidentally"...!
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I'm intrigued by the reference to the age of the telephone. Nothing to do with dialling code changes so far as I can tell.
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'Annoyingly wet gap' - were you visiting Streatham Hill station?
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Thanks for prompting me to find out what a rail adhesion train is. I notice the destination is 'not in service' so wonder why these cannot take passengers.
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kev, because they're converted older stock trains that carry equipment needed to remove leaves and leaf mulch from the tracks.
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Reading about the emerging Star Bar provoked an instant craving, then I remembered the three most recent Cadbury's products I'd eaten (Twirl, Time Out, Giant Buttons) all tasted out of date even though they were all mid-2026. Maybe it's my taste-buds but other 'treats' taste the same.
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So far nobody's within 10km of where I actually went.
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Probably unrelated but a hot estate agent could be Hotblack Desiato, the Islington/Highbury/Camden agent's name that Douglas Adams recycled as a character in HHTTG.
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Woolwich has colourful illuminated fountains and a enormous Tesco, but temporary traffic lights could be anywhere (and everywhere, currently)
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Late comment but maybe somewhere near Tottenham?
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I find the comments that highlight other contributors spelling mistakes or poor grammar unnecessary and snobbish. Not everyone that might visit and enjoy this daily blog is university educated or has English as their first language. I would imagine it will discourage readers from posting their thoughts in future for fear of being mocked over their writing abilities. Be kind.
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...agreed, except in the special case when the comment was specifically attempting to be pedantic.
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The parts of the Rail Adhesion Train that carried passengers are now full of tanks of stuff used to clean the tracks, remove leaf mulch and make the rails more "grippy" (ie improve adhesion, hence the name). It's a very messy process and not really compatible with carrying any passengers who don't want a big dry-cleaning bill at the end of their journey.
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The poppies may be a permanent feature of the Rail Adhesion Train as it carried them back in July when I saw it from a passing train, parked in Ealing Common depot yard. Lest we forget indeed, although I suppose it is most active in the "poppy season".
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Fred, probably not, as he's spending a year dead for tax reasons.
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