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diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.23 - 12:11 a.m. | #
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Your photo on 10 November of the road sign never noticed that before looks fairly new. I drive past it on some times on my way to my Doctors. I live just about 1 mile from it . Next time I’m on the 252 bus will look for it.
Robert | 01.12.23 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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19. Was that the Park Langley in Beckenham? What were you doing there?
Jo W | 01.12.23 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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17: thanks for that, I like those sort of sites. You never know where they can take you.
Richard | 01.12.23 - 8:15 a.m. | #
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2: Although the 'lowest pressure ever!' is interesting, nobody ever seems to explain (same with when we had the 'highest pressure ever! a while back) what it means in real terms - is this good or bad? Aside from 'high pressure = settled weather' and 'low pressure = unsettled weather', do these record numbers actually mean anything? Is it a climate change thing? Or just interesting numbers and nothing to worry about?
RG | 01.12.23 - 8:24 a.m. | #
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19. Ha Park Langley--I live in the area (well, parents do, I live down the road)-would have invited you in for a tea/coffee if I'd known haha!
Jonathan | 01.12.23 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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11. Being a tad older I often get offered seats by kind persons. But last time, on a Victoria Line train, the instant the chap offered, the train started to move and I lurched right into the lap of a nice lady on the adjacent seat...
davews | 01.12.23 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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23 Glad you enjoyed Horsenden Hill, we go there a lot. But I didn't follow the reference to cats. Maybe it's a Dr Who thing. They are breeding harvest mice for release so I certainly hope there aren't too many cats.
Lucy Garden | 01.12.23 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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28 - I agree about Bake Off. Looking back at some of the previous years' final showstoppers this year's were a big disappointment. Some big cakes - like wow, so what.
MKIan | 01.12.23 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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26 - Ooh, thank-you for that. Despite a mate of mine being a full on convention-attending Whovian, he hadn't known about that. Big Finish do a very good job of things.
Chz | 01.12.23 - 9:21 a.m. | #
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10 - That sign has been there for at least a couple of years - I live locally too. A quick check on Google Street View suggests that it has been in place since at least 2012!
Steeevooo | 01.12.23 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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11) In my early 50s a schoolboy did the same to me when I boarded a 262 with a couple of bags of shopping. I was so offended and grunted a rude response. Later, on reflection, I considered that the youth of today is not all bad, but it was too late for me to apologise, so he possibly thinks the oldies of today are all short tempered and abrupt.
scrumpy | 01.12.23 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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11. As a (now elderly) man, it was especially galling for me the first time I was offered a seat by a young woman.
jack hopkins | 01.12.23 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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10. Coming out of Guildford, there was a sign for A'shot and B'shot -- meaning Aldershot and Bagshot.
jack hopkins | 01.12.23 - 9:41 a.m. | #
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4. Whenever I see it, it's one with replacement windows. If the windows don't wind down, it's not a proper Routemaster!
ap | 01.12.23 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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22. Know the feeling. The tree outside my window is now bereft of leaves and I've got my view right over to east London back again. Yay
Caroline | 01.12.23 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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7 - When the new Thameslink trains were being introduced I had a similar experience at Brighton, being invited to board through the driver's cab as the doors wouldn't open. I was chuffed with this.
I was much less chuffed on my next Thameslink trip, when a similar failure at St Pancras (the train refused to believe that it was at a station) led to everyone being carried through to Kentish Town after a very long delay. Not wanting to risk it again I took the Northern Line back to King's Cross. You win some and you lose some, I suppose.
10 - At least Rain'm matches common pronunciation of the name. Never heard anyone say H'nchurch though.
Leo | 01.12.23 - 11:01 a.m. | #
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1) It's quite a nice walk if you continue northeastwards from Waggon Road along the footpath which runs along the Enfield/Herts border, especially once you cross the M25.
18) A stunning interior. I'm sure I've eaten the calf's liver there too!
28) I'm still surprised Josh didn't win. I had assumed they were tough on Josh's showstopper just to create a bit of tension, rather than because they seriously thought Matty could win.
Mikey C | 01.12.23 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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3: This probably shows sign of neglect or even giving up of whatever provider of the said RSS. I suspect this is deliberate.
Patrickov | 01.12.23 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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22: Ditto, but for me the trees are the other side of the railway and the view is of the little patch of common beyond.
Jonathan Wadman | 01.12.23 - 12:07 p.m. | #
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22. I have a winter-only sea view, on a similar basis.
Malcolm of Kent | 01.12.23 - 12:14 p.m. | #
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8. One could report Emily to the Information Commissioner for not taking GDPR seriously
MilesT | 01.12.23 - 12:21 p.m. | #
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27. Thanks for the opportunity to see that roundel again. Roundels are strictly regulated, and still there are plenty of excentric ones (like this one: no text, awkward proportions). Niche pleasure one could call that.
Roland | 01.12.23 - 2:37 p.m. | #
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22 - All the leaves fell from my neighbour’s huge walnut tree yesterday in one go as a result of the first severe frost. I can see the sky now but not the front garden as it’s ankle deep in leaves!
Bob S | 01.12.23 - 2:55 p.m. | #
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11 Being offered a seat on public transport for the first time is a truly life changing/affirming/upsetting moment. Suddenly your own view of yourself and the world's view of you are no longer in sync. Hasn't happened to me for a few years now for which I am truly grateful/appalled/nonplussed...
south london lad | 01.12.23 - 3:44 p.m. | #
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11. I had a good mind to ask for my seat back again when I offered my seat to a lady carrying a baby and she promptly let the older (6-7 yr old?) child sit down! The child's legs were evidently less tired than mine, the way she was bouncing up and down!
Cornish Cockney | 01.12.23 - 3:49 p.m. | #
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9-The word Guano was one of the Wordle answers a few months ago. I'm embarrassed to say I'd never heard of it before.
It ruined a good long running sequence of correct answers.
Richard | 01.12.23 - 3:58 p.m. | #
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28 - I too was pleased for Matty to win. I felt Josh was over confident and threw it away.
Jon Jones | 01.12.23 - 8:30 p.m. | #
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27 - Shocking its still not been repaired, I went by it recently and couldn't believe it hadn't been fixed.
steve | 01.12.23 - 8:54 p.m. | #
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27. This wasn't cheap or simple glazing - it was a fairly sophisticated glass curtain walling setup, which also had a subtle fritted pattern reflecting the diagonal patterns on the brick walls either side. Real shame it's been destroyed so quickly. Maybe TfL should have gone for something cheap and tough for this location, but at least they tried to be more ambitious and imaginative. Sadly I suspect the frontage may now be replaced with an advertising hoarding rather than glazing.
David | 01.12.23 - 9:28 p.m. | #
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27. I'm excited to see the special glazing was manufactured by a company called DG Glass.
It won't be replaced by adverts.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.23 - 9:31 p.m. | #
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10) there's a sign in Leyton pointing towards the Waste Managem't Centre, which annoys me every time.
martin | 01.12.23 - 9:44 p.m. | #
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14. It's very distracting if you know a TV / film location and keep spotting continuity errors (that's not en route from A to B!!).
17. Thanks! Also has air, bus and canal news today.
28. More Cambs wonkiness to go with the March Christmas tree.
miker | 01.12.23 - 9:48 p.m. | #
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9. Apparently it's a squadron, pod, pouch or scoop of pelicans. There are currently 6 in St James's Park as confirmed by a recent photo on Twitter, but in my experience from lunchtime walks a while back, getting them all together is a matter of luck (or possibly turning up at dusk when they bed down for the night).
Andrew S | 01.12.23 - 10:07 p.m. | #
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(but the majority have, cheers!)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.23 - 11:59 p.m. | #
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27. Did the good folks at DG Glass reappropriate your March 2020 photos for their portfolio?
Z | 02.12.23 - 12:12 a.m. | #
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27. I'm not answering questions.
(but blimey, that's shameless)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.12.23 - 12:17 a.m. | #
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1. If you'd come that far, you should have stopped in for a coffee, 1 road away! Always good to see you visit Hadley Wood.
Jordan D | 02.12.23 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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1. Did you notice Waggon Road changes its name to Wagon Road halfway up? There's an idea for a post, roads changing spelling.
David Styles | Homepage | 02.12.23 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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30. Two days later the old 339 timetables have now been removed from the bus stops where the 339 no longer stops. Also the yellow 'Bus stop closed' panels have been removed from the new stops on Monier Lane. Fast work, well done.
Still no 339 timetables at the four new stops, though.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.12.23 - 2:45 p.m. | #
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I think I love the 'unblogged things' posts more than any others. They are the dopamine hit that fire me in to the month. Such variety! Thanks DG.
Simeon Bennett | 03.12.23 - 9:32 p.m. | #
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