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diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.04.22 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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5: That’s a bit concerning. Hope it is just teething troubles and not the new normal.
18: Snap!
Dan | 30.04.22 - 7:11 a.m. | #
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19. I believe this is Sundridge Park, not Sundridge, which is a village on the A25 between Sevenoaks and Westerham.
Deborah Kelly | 30.04.22 - 7:12 a.m. | #
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6. This begs the question, what is the longest length of straight road in London/UK.
dg writes: blogged that last month.
Mike | 30.04.22 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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27 Intriguing. Not what again?
Jo W | 30.04.22 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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1 & 30: Snap!
solar penguin | 30.04.22 - 7:23 a.m. | #
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4 - considering how long parts of London have been ethnically diverse - what is 'traditional'?, we drink tea and coffee eat curry and kebabs.
17 - probably interested in sniffing discomfort.
Still Anon | 30.04.22 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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25 - Re your query as to the most effective way of displaying directional information, I would have thought that the two lines to the right would be on the right of the sign, all the writing in the same size font and the LUL roundel on either none or all. In addition, there should be confirmation signs over the two entrances visible in the picture.
strawbrick | 30.04.22 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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12) The A1 may be unpleasant to live on, but to the north is the large Copthall open area, and to the south Sunnyhill Park, plus the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is nearby, which do compensate.
Mikey C | 30.04.22 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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16, 17: Whether intentional or not, you brightened up my morning - Wilson!
Michael T | 30.04.22 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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5. One of these days I will manage to be a foot passenger on the Woolwich ferry but when you add in the long walk to the piers if is always far quicker just to use the tunnel.
26. Trying to work out how on earth you managed to end up at Gatwick on a SWR journey from Southampton to Waterloo. That must have been a super-super-extra long journey home.
davews | 30.04.22 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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10. Enlightening. For 33 years I had assumed the Ferodo bridge carried disused tracks.
scrumpy | 30.04.22 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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26/davews... see blogs for 27/28 April. Doing it myself on Thursday (thanks for the tip), hope I don't have the same sushi/snog experience at LGW.
Richard | 30.04.22 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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26/davews, yes as Richard says, DG used the Southern service from Southampton to London Victoria-- its nearly always cheaper than SWT but takes much longer..
Jeremy | 30.04.22 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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FOMO duly triggered by the amount of Silinbbbdntba
commonliner | 30.04.22 - 9:46 a.m. | #
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25. That sign is a dog's dinner or should I say a Boris' breakfast. The mess that man has created by deciding on a whim to rename the mode as Elizabeth line, knowing that any objection would be perceived as a huge insult to Her Maj... That's why we now have interchange symbols that say Central/Jubilee/Elizabeth line. A line is NOT a MODE. He's messed it all up.but that's his M.O.
daveid76 | 30.04.22 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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5. I had to use the ferry yesterday and - being on a bike - it didn't trouble me too much that there's currently only a one boat service (until further notice, according to the website) as bikes are directed to the front of the queue and are the first to go on.
I was thankful it was actually running at all, now that the nearest (and effectively the only) alternative - the Blackwall Tunnel - now falls inside the extended London ULEZ zone.
RogerW | 30.04.22 - 10:24 a.m. | #
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8. I remember being taken in October 1960, to a road somewhere near where you had beenin Ruislip Gardens; to see a Boeing 707 which had landed by mistake at RAF Northolt.
Michael | 30.04.22 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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13 - Or traffic along Chiswick High Road is always at a crawl and the cycle lanes get the blame.
Andrew S | 30.04.22 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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13. As Andrew S points out, thus it has always been. Before the cycle lane, it was parking and people loading and unloading, so unused for moving traffic (or at least traffic that wished it was moving. Sadly now when I have used the cycle lane (when it isn't being dug up again), I have almost always come across a delivery van that has pulled into the cycle lane to make a delivery.
25: Agree with everything strawbrick said about how the signage should be.
Greg | 30.04.22 - 11:43 a.m. | #
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1/30 : I'm not sure when it was exactly that oven fans became "a thing". I suspect they cause more problems than they solve, however.
cau1khead | 30.04.22 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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19. David Bowie spent some of his early years, till he was 18, just a short distance from Sundridge Park station: 4 Plaistow Grove, apparently.
dg writes: ✉ That’s the comment in today’s sealed envelope, which means I get to celebrate with a Creme Egg. :)
RogerW | 30.04.22 - 12:39 p.m. | #
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21: Well, let's see what the figure is if she catches up her mum in 5 years.
Patrickov | 30.04.22 - 2:14 p.m. | #
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22. Glad it's not just me that sometimes finds this process problematic: wrong card, wrong code, buttons that obstinately refuse to register a letter however much you jab at them..
Frank F | 30.04.22 - 3:28 p.m. | #
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8. commonliner - Somewhere In London I Haven't Been Before But Do Not Think Blogging's Acceptable/Achievable. Of course, I will not be correct...
Happy Harry | 30.04.22 - 4:06 p.m. | #
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25. The thing with this sign is that it's at the bottom of an escalator that is specifically for the Northern Line. The majority of people looking at it are here for the Northern Line and want to be directed to it. Only people who've made a dreadful mistake will be there for the other two and will be directed as such. The route to the Central Line from there takes ages, chances are the Elizabeth Line route will be long too.
Sean | 30.04.22 - 5:34 p.m. | #
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10. Awaiting your appearance as a special effect in EastEnders (or as a major disaster in Corrie).
Rich G | Homepage | 30.04.22 - 10:26 p.m. | #
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13: Chiswick High Road cycle lanes are a huge bone of contention here, with opinion on them, and local other 'traffic calming and modal change initiatives', ranging from the work of the devil to a vital step toward saving the planet!
ActonMan | 30.04.22 - 11:37 p.m. | #
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1 and 30. Not impressed by your landlord's unwillingness to promptly fix things in your property.
dg writes: Try to avoid jumpingtoconclusion-ness.
ActonMan | 30.04.22 - 11:40 p.m. | #
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Days which have not inspired comment:
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(but the majority just about have, cheers!)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.04.22 - 11:59 p.m. | #
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9 - Even as someone who lives in the area, I can't imagine why you'd be there. Though it is a pleasant walk over to Oaks Park from there, via a little laneway behind Wally Girls' School and Queen Mary's Park. Agreed that some of the houses in Woodcote proper are a bit bonkers on the showing off front.
Chz | 01.05.22 - 9:32 a.m. | #
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11. Not Cooks Road, but I had a similar shock just recently at the pace of change along the riverfront.
Arriving early to pick up a friend from City Airport, I pulled into Bradfield Road, partly as somewhere to park up and partly to see again the industrial units - a whole line of them alongside what is now Royal Crest Avenue - which, years ago, I used to visit regularly through work.
They're all now gone, with yet another development of new apartments going up in their place. Oh well, at least Lyle Park is still there.
RogerW | 01.05.22 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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6: Clayhall Avenue, I know it well. Many years ago my late father was stopped for speeding at the bottom of the hill there. And although the surrounding housing is indeed resolutely inter-war, 'The Unicorn' pub is in fact post-war - 1950s. Unlike quite a few now ex-pubs in LB Redbridge, it is still a functioning pub.
Alan S | 02.05.22 - 12:22 p.m. | #
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What does Silinbbbdntba mean?
Doris | 02.05.22 - 2:21 p.m. | #
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Doris, see entry for Wed 6th
Jeremy | 02.05.22 - 6:53 p.m. | #
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1 & 30 - I have the same problem with my oven. Bought a counter top convection oven. Solved the problem.
Steven | 02.05.22 - 8:50 p.m. | #
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It was the post today (18/06/22) about Kate Bush which got me thinking of the various celebrities who have come from my part of London... including David Bowie and my reference to him here ^.
Gotta say, I never understood the "red envelope." It wasn't a link I could open and if it was meant to say 'you have mail' I never received any
RogerW | 18.06.22 - 12:48 p.m. | #
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Ah. Got it :)
RogerW | 18.06.22 - 9:07 p.m. | #
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