please empty your brain below
I’m sad about not getting the M26 sliproads but can live without the rest. Please can I have some more bus posts?

B2024 | 25.01.24 - 7:03 a.m. | #

There are 51 titles listed, though, so does that mean that one of them *will* be written about?

Trevor S | 25.01.24 - 7:20 a.m. | #

How I order my bookshelves: from IKEA.

Martin | 25.01.24 - 7:39 a.m. | #

I feel this list is a hostage to fortune.

Steve | 25.01.24 - 7:39 a.m. | #

All palindromic numbers with an even number of digits are divisible by 11. So none are prime, other than 11 itself.

Andrew | 25.01.24 - 7:40 a.m. | #

Some are tantalising tangents to possible topics!

Half a physicist | 25.01.24 - 7:41 a.m. | #

I could conceivably write about 4 of those. But I probably won't.

Blue Witch | 25.01.24 - 7:47 a.m. | #

After breakfast, cats find somewhere warm and comfy to wait until dinner time. That's what ours do.

Mike | 25.01.24 - 8:03 a.m. | #

A surprisingly interesting list in places, never mind 🙂

Al | 25.01.24 - 8:05 a.m. | #

Heysham railway station is definitely worth a post!

Taffy | 25.01.24 - 8:16 a.m. | #

Thursday is the best bin night.

Keith | 25.01.24 - 8:27 a.m. | #

Oh go on! Some of these sound fascinating.

Debster | 25.01.24 - 8:27 a.m. | #

I am now on the edge of my seat awaiting your guide to the best nesting boxes for sparrows

Simon | Homepage | 25.01.24 - 8:29 a.m. | #

I'm also furious you're deliberately choosing to ignore M26 sliproads.

I once went to a very weird street party for residents of Oxted.amd Westerham on the M25 between junctions 6 and 5, immediately prior to its opening. (My recollection was that it was on the anticlockwise as there was some issue with the concrete on the clockwise).

Dan W | 25.01.24 - 8:44 a.m. | #

I have just spend an enjoyable few minutes watching otters chasing a butterfly, reading about London's most common tree, and proving that palindromic primes (except 11) can't have an even number of digits. I have also been astonished at what I found about the top and bottom of a (chocolate) hobnob. Thanks!

Alan | 25.01.24 - 8:48 a.m. | #

Does this mean there will be a post about Kardomah Cafés? I’m almost tempted to make a trip to Swansea, where one remains, to enjoy the distinctive smell of coffee that filled the street. The one I remember best was the one in Bromley High Street.

Bryn Davies | 25.01.24 - 9:17 a.m. | #

Plenty there for Geoff Marshall and Ianvisits to mop up

Nigel | 25.01.24 - 9:18 a.m. | #

I'm not keen on hobnobs, but I find myself eating all biscuits upside down (the biscuit, not me). It's a deep-seated psychological issue. See also: burgers.

Wendy | 25.01.24 - 9:19 a.m. | #

Susan Stranks!

tops | 25.01.24 - 9:20 a.m. | #

I’m sorely tempted to take this post as a challenge to create the Cubic Zirconia Geezer blog and write all of these.

Radinden | 25.01.24 - 9:35 a.m. | #

You'll love visiting Lancaster, Morecambe, and Heysham, so please reconsider at least one of these.

Doktorb | 25.01.24 - 9:48 a.m. | #

To be properly woke, it should be the Inspection Covers of Bromley that we won’t read about!

ActonMan | 25.01.24 - 9:50 a.m. | #

I will have a lingering sadness over the fabulous potential posts on Bexley and Worksop which were conjured up, then dashed.

cau1khead | 25.01.24 - 9:59 a.m. | #

You're right Trevor, 51 titles are listed, so one of them will be appearing here later today. :)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.01.24 - 10:02 a.m. | #

There are several four-digit reversed pairs where each member is prime. e.g 3803 and 3083, 7207 and 7027.

William | 25.01.24 - 10:16 a.m. | #

My money is on London’s lost swimming pools.

Mike on a bike | 25.01.24 - 10:26 a.m. | #

Glad to see Grangewood Park and Whitehorse Meadows are not on the list. I was worried you may have forgotten them. Just for the record they are both in S.E.25 not Thornton Heath so maybe worth a visit early January next year.

Keith the Kraut | 25.01.24 - 10:29 a.m. | #

While the content matters, so does the writer. I'd be happy to read most (admittedly not all) of those if penned by Diamond Geezer himself. And did we not already trace some of Terry and June in the past?

dg writes: no.

Chz | 25.01.24 - 10:30 a.m. | #

I think todays post will be Name That sutton Station, although retracing Terry and June is a strong contender

Boneyboy | 25.01.24 - 10:33 a.m. | #

Article 52: the most variable and random list ever devised

Herned | 25.01.24 - 10:53 a.m. | #

What? You have tattoos?

Patrickov | 25.01.24 - 12:05 p.m. | #

Can we vote?

Andrew S | 25.01.24 - 1:51 p.m. | #

I counted 18 I would have believed as genuine DG posts

Well done to the commenters who twigged what was going on before the rest of us!

alex f | 25.01.24 - 5:13 p.m. | #

I'm so glad I saw the Nestlé building on a visit to Croydon in 2019. I have a feeling it was being prepared for demolition even then, but the logo was still resplendent on one exterior wall. Luckily, I got a photo.

cau1khead | 25.01.24 - 6:00 p.m. | #

Street access covers: I assert that telecoms access covers (which can now date over a century old) offers a diagnostic for long term wealth of a residential area or well established retail/wholesale/light industry

MilesT | 25.01.24 - 6:46 p.m. | #

1. the Nestle building was horrid to work in in the late 60s, being opposite a bunch of idiots who kept sending in "There's a bomb in the building" calls and emptying us all out into the street

2. the threepenny bit building was much nicer, except during the power cuts (3day week) when I worked on the 22nd floor.

3. I'm happy to see a comment from Blue Witch. I can't get into her blog any more - bitdefender says it is no longer available. Is this true?
dg writes: no.
I do hope not, it was such a pleasure to read. In any case, if BW has stopped writing, may I send her through DG my thanks and good wishes for the future?

Nedd | 25.01.24 - 7:29 p.m. | #

I went down the rabbit hole of wondering who on earth Susan Stranks is, only to find out Ted Ray wasn't Ted Ray but Charles Olden.

Caroline | 25.01.24 - 10:49 p.m. | #

Dang, I was looking forward to reading about Eastcote’s station but never mind.

rab | 26.01.24 - 2:21 a.m. | #

Note to self: People are much more interested in what I didn't write than what I did.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 26.01.24 - 7:24 a.m. | #

I'm going to hold out hope that we'll get 'All the pubs I went to in 1999' eventually ;)

Joseph Clift | 26.01.24 - 9:08 a.m. | #

Threepenny bit/50p building - how wonderful!
Must look out for it if I find myself in Croydon.

Cornish Cockney | 26.01.24 - 11:55 a.m. | #

My cousins kept on threatening to take me to the Blue Orchid nightclub in the basement of the Nestle building when I was younger. Apparently it was very dodgy.

Neil | 26.01.24 - 12:40 p.m. | #

‘Demolishment’? What happened to ‘demolition’?

Escalators under an open shopping centre roof doesn’t sound like a good idea.

David B | 27.01.24 - 6:21 a.m. | #











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