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diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.10.24 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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6. Train carriage? Ugh!
Pedantic of Purley | 01.10.24 - 7:15 a.m. | #
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26. I always thought it odd that for years after the King's Cross fire there were small areas underground filled with flammable materials.
mclm | 01.10.24 - 7:15 a.m. | #
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29. And not just any old ship, but one of a kind.
Brightside | 01.10.24 - 7:30 a.m. | #
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27) and you'd have to go to Lakeside to find a Lakeland - the Stratford centre is now a blood donor clinic, so I'm there more often than when it was a kitchenware shop.
martin | 01.10.24 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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19) Contrary to your occasional exhortations to your commentators, you DID risk a Shirley.
Notts Observer | 01.10.24 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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29. Done that twice, then went back to watch it do it from the shore. A great sight and a lovely ship.
ap | 01.10.24 - 7:59 a.m. | #
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10 possible trip to Joderal Bank
Profcox | 01.10.24 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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12. I enjoyed “The Critic” at the cinema recently without realising until later that it is based on a novel I enjoyed reading some years ago :Anthony Quinn’s “Curtain Call”.
Keith from N2 | 01.10.24 - 8:05 a.m. | #
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Well I was fine, everyone was making such a fuss.
DGD | 01.10.24 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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10. There I was thinking the Wilmslow call was from the Information Commissioner’s Office rather than Jodrell Bank.
Robert Butlin | 01.10.24 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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12: I wager that you'll want to read more than one.
24: You for coffee?
Waterhouse | 01.10.24 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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2. That's Fanny, The Gipsy Hill Cat, who has her own blog and is on Instagram and X/Twitter.
Andrew S | 01.10.24 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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11. I saw mince pies in the Forest Gate Iceland on 30th August this year. I think that's the earliest I can personally recall seeing them.
Charlie | 01.10.24 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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28. What is the obsession among so many drivers to change the format of number plates and how are they getting away with it when they’re so easy to spot?
Hiding in plain sight | 01.10.24 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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19. Never risk a Shirley!
LS | 01.10.24 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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9. I had a go and after a while got all pinks. Who would have thought LABORIOUS and LACONIC would be so popular?
Ian | 01.10.24 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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18. I'm struggling to remember how much the Standard used to cost when you had to pay for it, but I'm guessing we may well have paid more than the equivalent of £80 a year back in the day and thought nothing of it, yet I too wouldn't pay that much now for online news. How things change.
28. I must be too innocent. Doesn't mean anything to me.
29. Steering a narrowboat under it is pretty cool too.
Andrew S | 01.10.24 - 10:34 a.m. | #
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6. Definitely window for me
27. Still mourning the loss of Wilko. Thankfully, Falmouth has a Trago instead so I made good use of it while down there earlier in the month!
Cornish Cockney | 01.10.24 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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9. I just had a go and got three Blues, 4 pinks, 1 Yellow and a Unicorn. Never having played this before I take it the Unicorn is an answer nobody else had used before.
Barry | 01.10.24 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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21. Someone else still playing Threes! I finally got a 6144 last year, followed a few months later by another, but nothing since.
Steve | 01.10.24 - 10:48 a.m. | #
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6. It depends on where I am. On the deep tube I will usually read a book or magazine, on longer journeys above ground I like to look out of the window, while flicking with my phone (and listening to music)
15. Just googled Melvyn Hayes, and he's still very recognisable!
Mikey C | 01.10.24 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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26 - How long before supermarkets stop selling newspapers like they did with CDs and DVDs, just have one delivery a week for magazines.
30 - Perhaps it’s the cyber attack.
Still Anon | 01.10.24 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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12 - Anthony Quinn is excellent and I find surprisingly little known. If you read from the Curtain Call trilogy then they're all excellent and very London.
19 - as someone who doesn't live in London I sometimes surprised how often we are in the same areas on or near the same day. I was also in Addiscombe on this day.
27 - with the closure of Wilko and my local John Lewis there's now nowhere within easy reach where there's a decent range of kitchenware that you can browse. It's turned me into a grumpy old man bemoaning the loss of physical stores and being forced to buy on the internet.
Anders | 01.10.24 - 11:12 a.m. | #
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I hope 14 wasn’t a result of 8. Too much celebration perhaps.
16 is a great photo and I’m glad you were allowed to keep it (or went back to retake later, whichever it was!)
20 If you’re desperate, Chrome will do it, you can even see which site set it so you can copy just the specific ones.
Nick | 01.10.24 - 11:53 a.m. | #
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2- The moggy doesn't appear to be particularly interested in the step free access notices.
kev | 01.10.24 - 12:20 p.m. | #
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3 - patently a retrograde step, but why?
6 - I presume the person with the Osman book had lost their phone.
15 - time for a repeat airing of my experience of spending several boozy lunchtimes with Melvyn (and Windsor) in The Crab Inn, Shanklin IoW - Summer 1978.
Frank F | 01.10.24 - 12:57 p.m. | #
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17. The mortuary building?
20. If you register a NYT account, I think your score goes with you. Can you not just copy the files from one machine to the other?
Ian | 01.10.24 - 1:35 p.m. | #
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27. Martin, there's a Lakeland in Kingston.
dg writes: Kingston is even further away. Brent Cross would be nearer.
David B | 01.10.24 - 1:59 p.m. | #
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8. Would be interested to see said carrot, if a photo exists
James Matcham | 01.10.24 - 2:29 p.m. | #
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2) Instagram silver: for Instagram gold you need an Oystercatcher on an Oyster reader.
Basil Jet | 01.10.24 - 3:13 p.m. | #
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6. This information would be interesting on your many bus journeys. If only for the occasional non-phone sighting.
Steven | 01.10.24 - 4:46 p.m. | #
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9: now I have a new game to play after Wordle every morning. Seven pinks isn't the worst start, I think.
16: It makes me a bit anxious, the thought I could be stopped for taking a mundane photo. Public photography isn't illegal, after all.
19: I am not pleased, I'd have loved a Shirley/Addiscombe side roads post. I wonder which parts in particular underwhelmed you.
23: I wonder why they wanted so many, and am curious about how many Bountys will be left behind.
29: Certainly looks stunning.
All Over 2a | Homepage | 01.10.24 - 6:23 p.m. | #
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24. Decades ago, I sat opposite Siobhan Redmond on a train to Bedford. She was reading Errol Flynn's autobiography "My Wicked Wicked Ways".
Patrick | 01.10.24 - 7:26 p.m. | #
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4. First double mini rather than first pair of minis (there is a difference). But ground breaking thinking at the time. Then they let him (Frank Blackmore) loose in Swindon!
MO | 01.10.24 - 10:21 p.m. | #
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Days which have not inspired comment:
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(but the vast majority have, cheers)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.10.24 - 11:59 p.m. | #
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13. I worked by the new Headless Cross water tower for 7 years. The office is now being converted into flats (not really sure where all the people living there will work as the company I worked for was the main employer and is no longer there).
My dim recollection is that the brick water tower was for sale in 1987 for 43K (already converted into a house) when the crappy 3 bedroom semi I bought in one of the crappier new bits of Redditch cost 25K. No sign of it on Rightmove that I can see so I guess it hasn't changed hands for ages.
John Styles | 02.10.24 - 12:33 a.m. | #
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All over 2a / 16 - The Canary Wharf Estate (and presumably Wood Wharf) is private land. I once got told off by a guard for taking a photo of a statue because it was right in front of a 'sensitive banking operations room'. I wanted to point out the stupidity of putting soemthing that sensitive right behind a thing that people may want to take photos of, and the stupidity of telling me all about it, but frankly I didn't want to risk getting banned from the estate as it's where my office was, so I had to shut up and just quietly move on.
Peter of London | 02.10.24 - 6:59 a.m. | #
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27) When I was in a similar situation a few years ago (replacing part of a much loved nesting set of 3 clear arcoroc branded) I found the cheapest equivalent option was Argos (Pyrex nesting set), by a long way, with not many other options for that sort of item (presumably not popular). Not even eBay.
MilesT | 02.10.24 - 2:16 p.m. | #
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5) Went there many a time to see a film so there's a piece of my childhood gone.
X-Plaistow | 02.10.24 - 3:33 p.m. | #
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6: Just on the 21:30 out of Liverpool Street towards Enfield Town. In my section of carriage: 15 people, 10 on their phones, 1 eating a pasta salad, 1 staring into space/listening to music, 2 having a conversation, 1 commenting on DG’s blog (so technically also on my phone).
DB83 | 03.10.24 - 9:36 p.m. | #
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