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please empty your brain below

I've *only* been reading you for about a dozen years, but the experience has been consistently enjoyable and educative. You've helped me see London in a new light, not least because I can't go past Bus Stop M without thinking - ah, the famous Bus Stop M! This is an invaluable chronicle of London life, and I'm Looking forward to the next twenty years.

Harry | 08.09.22 - 7:18 a.m. | #

An excellent read on the ins and outs of London.

Will be reading as long as you're writing.

Nic | 08.09.22 - 7:27 a.m. | #

Thank you for all your researching and wanderings. As with everything in life, your blog has sometimes been interesting and informative, especially when describing those long walks. At my time of life I can’t quite manage distances of that nature, but your blog takes us along with you,even to sharing a mini bag of cheddars. 😂
Please forgive me when I speed read through your posts that involve technical details of buses,trains etc. I’m only interested in where they’re going, when they arrive and when they get back. I’ve never been interested in where they were made.😉
Keep on blogging, please,or I’ll have nothing to read with my first cup of builders!

Jo W | 08.09.22 - 7:30 a.m. | #

Happy birthday from another blogger (wine, a mere 12 years). Your writings are early morning treat, every day.

Richard Morris | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 7:34 a.m. | #

I eagerly read your blog every morning. Always interesting, well written and witty.
All the best for the future.

John | 08.09.22 - 7:37 a.m. | #

Happy Happy Birthday dg & thanks for all the hours of intersting visits to Canvey Island etc.

Lorenzo | 08.09.22 - 7:43 a.m. | #

Your blog is firmly part of my daily routine and I am always amazed by the variety of content and how few mistakes there are! I’ll miss it when it’s gone.

David | 08.09.22 - 7:50 a.m. | #

Happy birthday and well done. How many other websites from 2002 are still going in broadly the same format?

CG | 08.09.22 - 7:51 a.m. | #

Many thanks for your insights and observations over the years - and hopefully you will be enlightening us for another 20 years

cleggster | 08.09.22 - 7:51 a.m. | #

Happy blog birthday!

Simon G | 08.09.22 - 7:57 a.m. | #

Somewhere out there is a version of the universe where the internet wasn't invented, what would that version of you be doing now?

In my view not being commercial also contributed to your longevity.

Still Anon | 08.09.22 - 7:58 a.m. | #

Thank you for the daily dose of interesting stuff!

Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 08.09.22 - 8:04 a.m. | #

You are a London institution. I'm convinced your blog will be regarded on a par with Pepys in centuries to come! Congratulations, and thank you for every word of it. Here's to another 20 years!

BP | 08.09.22 - 8:05 a.m. | #

...and that's why I've been following this blog daily for more than five years, since a recommendation from the sadly defunct blog "London Leben". Thanks for all the great work - what would a new day be without a new story from dg?

deruf | 08.09.22 - 8:07 a.m. | #

I particularly enjoyed your exposure of the tacky candy stores in Oxford Street.

That's not to say that all the rest of your output isn't fascinating too !

Keep it up for as long as you feel able to produce variety of quality.

Petras409 | 08.09.22 - 8:11 a.m. | #

Congratulations, and here's to the next twenty years, if I am still around!

Barry Coppock | 08.09.22 - 8:12 a.m. | #

Congratulations on 20 years. This is one of the corners of the Internet that is most unapologetically itself while still being thoughtful, surprising, and - for those of us who have had to leave London - at times very comforting.

Ben | 08.09.22 - 8:19 a.m. | #

Thank you, dg! I’ve been reading the blog since about 2004 (I don’t keep a diary!) on an almost daily basis. There’s no better way to start the day.

Can’t wait for the next 20 years!

Dan | 08.09.22 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Congratulations and thank you. I wonder just how many of us wake up the computer and go immediately to "Diamond Geezer". I do! I've been caught out by trying to read your latest at 08:05 Eastern European time.

Mike Roberts | 08.09.22 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Many happy returns. Just as well you didn't give up yesterday after completing London

Ian | 08.09.22 - 8:25 a.m. | #

Thank you for your output. I started following sometime in the late noughties/early 10s after I moved to London in 2008 and was looking for things that were talking about my new home city. You have helped me find interesting things to see, and illuminated things I saw every day but didn't know the history of.

Greg | 08.09.22 - 8:26 a.m. | #

Phwoaar what a score. Look forward to the next. Congrats.

daveid76 | 08.09.22 - 8:27 a.m. | #

Congratulations on 20 years of blogging. I have been reading the blog since I retired 12 years ago and husband and I have visited places in London we had never heard of after one of your visits. Thank you.

Sara | 08.09.22 - 8:33 a.m. | #

Congratulations, twenty years is such an achievement. I always enjoy reading your work and especially hearing about London's unexpected hidden corners.

Tanya | 08.09.22 - 8:33 a.m. | #

My favourite posts were the ones about your workplace/worklife. Alas, they came to a natural end 5(?) years ago. Shame.

Vic Flange | 08.09.22 - 8:34 a.m. | #

Many congratulations. For me, you are the Samuel Pepys of our time!

Alan S | 08.09.22 - 8:43 a.m. | #

Congratulations dg - that's a long old project! Thank you for showing me parts of a city that I've lived in for years and would never have stumbled across otherwise. Also, back in the Before Days, your excellent advice helped me secure Olympic and Paralympic tickets and for that alone I'll always be grateful! Any tips for Paris? ;)

Herrena | 08.09.22 - 8:45 a.m. | #

Congratulations! I've been reading every morning since... er... not sure, I am not the diligent diary-keeping type! - a bit before the Olympics I think.

As a reader, I'm grateful for the content which is nearly always interesting to me, and I'm even grateful for the ones which aren't, because your refusal to pander to easy clicks from any particular demographic instead of doing your own thing is one of your finest assets.

And as someone who attempts to churn out content of their own, on a distinct irregular basis, my awe at your maintaining *daily* output can hardly be overstated.

stevekeiretsu | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 8:48 a.m. | #

Thank you, just thank you. Your blog has been my most consistent fixed point for the last twenty years of my life on the Internet (I started out on Compuserve ...). Thank you for broadening my horizons when they needed it, for making me smile and/or think, and for feeding my curiosity.

Pippa | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 8:49 a.m. | #

This blog is one of the rare places that passes the test "Does it still ring true when you read them writing about something you know about yourself?" – which in the case of my childhood outer-London borough was an almost unique achievement. Always an interesting read – congrats!

Paul | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 8:52 a.m. | #

Congratulations and thank you for all your content. I've lost count of the number of places you have introduced me to. Here's to the next 20 years.

ganching | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 8:55 a.m. | #

Thank you. I've been reading since 2003. You're the first blog I visit in the morning (next stops BW, Razor Blade of Life and D4D). Sometimes the posts don't interest me and I skip past but that's fine.

The 2 most memorable posts were your tour of the Olympics Park during the Olympics - I printed it out and used it when I went to the Paralympics - and The Ceremony of the Keys which I subsequently booked for my friends and me. None of us (all living in London) had ever heard of it.

Sarah | 08.09.22 - 8:57 a.m. | #

A national institution as far as I’m concerned. Many thanks.

Mark | 08.09.22 - 8:58 a.m. | #

Happy Blog Birthday🎉

Michael | 08.09.22 - 9:02 a.m. | #

I've just now read your very first blog. While you were writing that, I was walking the South West Coastal Path, both of which occurred in the week of the 9/11 terrorist attack. I never did get to the end of the SWCP, and I hope you never reach the end of your daily blogging.

Alan S | 08.09.22 - 9:03 a.m. | #

I discovered you (I don't remember how) around about 2007 and have read daily ever since. I admire your ability to keep up with the output - there is always interest, sometimes lots.

The Banbury Man | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 9:04 a.m. | #

Happy Birthday
Enjoyed the journey with you and reminders of how great a city London is now I no longer live in the city I was born in.
Also enjoyed your excursions out to the sticks and other urban centres especially when I know them too.
Live long and prosper

Big Al | 08.09.22 - 9:04 a.m. | #

Happy 20th Birthday!
I've been reading for a few years now, and the variety and quirkiness are what keep me coming back. Also, being a Londoner myself means that seeing posts relevant to places I know (or don't yet know) is especially interesting!
Keep up the good work, long may you continue.

Chris | 08.09.22 - 9:10 a.m. | #

thank you and keep up the good work

Caroline | 08.09.22 - 9:11 a.m. | #

Many thanks from Australia.
For both family and research reasons I try to get to London every 4 or 5 years. In the last few years this has been difficult but you provide the perfect alternative.

James Potter | 08.09.22 - 9:16 a.m. | #

I'm another daily reader. I hope it is all backed up!

dg writes: see risk log .

Tim W. | 08.09.22 - 9:18 a.m. | #

(doffs hat)

David | 08.09.22 - 9:19 a.m. | #

7 year (ish...) daily reader, first time commenter.

Many thanks for the morning entertainment every day, and here's to many more!

Lewis P | 08.09.22 - 9:23 a.m. | #

You were one the first blogs I read back in 2003 and contributed to me setting up my own (no longer updated) blog. It makes me so happy to see you still going, when so many others - blogs and writers I love reading - faltered over the years. Your blog is a spectacular achievement, a solid body of work, and I hope you’re very proud - you should be. Congrats on reaching the big 20 x

Zoe Margolis | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 9:29 a.m. | #

Thanks for informing and entertaining me for about the last 12 years. (Another person who doesn't keep a diary so can't properly remember) Rarely comment because I can seldom think of anything that contributes further to the conversation or hasn't already been said.

Andy S | 08.09.22 - 9:32 a.m. | #

Congratulations and long may you continue. I'm a daily reader but very intermittent commenter.

You should be proud of your incredible body of work. You have a rare ability to write hundreds of words on often obscure topics which are invariably interesting to read.

Here's to the next twenty years and hopefully in that time the mystery count will not be zero at some point!

Martin | 08.09.22 - 9:41 a.m. | #

I've only been reading for about 3 years, so a real infant when it comes to this blog; but just want to add my thanks for your interesting, informative, unusual, sardonic, niche content that brightens up the first 10 minutes of a working day.

The times when you visit somewhere specific that I know are always a highlight. Keep it up! (Please)

Huw | 08.09.22 - 9:41 a.m. | #

Congratulations from someone whose blog's first version was a runner-up in that 2002 list in the Guardian. (I won £100!)

I read your blog every morning and I'm amazed that you have been so prolific for so long. Well done.

I only manage a maximum of two or three posts a month, and don't have anything like the traffic you have, but I reckon it's something still worth doing. (Although I do have another work-related blog which does get a reasonable number of visitors.)

Charles | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 9:52 a.m. | #

Congratulations on the anniversary, and thanks for providing a reliable daily read for all that time. I've only been reading the blog for 18 of them, something constant-ish in a world that barely stands still.

Dominic H | 08.09.22 - 9:58 a.m. | #

I can't remember when or how I discovered your blog, but I do know it immediately became part of my daily routine. Many congratulations on your 20th anniversary and I look forward to going wherever you take me in the future.

Jonathan Wadman | 08.09.22 - 10:02 a.m. | #

I’m a former Fleet Street sub-editor and your use of language and “clean copy” are among the many aspects of your blog that I enjoy. Long may it continue!

Bakerloon | 08.09.22 - 10:03 a.m. | #

It’s our delight (and education) that you’ve been squeezing out the essence of all London throughout this time. What an amazing diary.

I have particularly enjoyed your constancy of attitude towards commercial crapmongers and official Jobsworths. It’s one of the things that makes me want to pop in once or twice every day.

I appreciate the fact that you are doing this for yourself: all the more joy that you are sharing it with us. We are both looking forward to many more of your surprising posts.

Say hallo to bus stop M for us when you next go past, hope it has something to tell you in return.

Herbof | 08.09.22 - 10:03 a.m. | #

Congratulations and thank you for providing us with such interesting content on a daily basis. I have lost count of the times my day has been enriched by following you down a rabbit hole, metaphorically or on my bike.

If you are looking for another long term project, there is now a website that records visits to squares of about 161 metres. Not so much a completion task (too many "T2"s), more a jam jar to dip into on a regular basis.

JonF | 08.09.22 - 10:05 a.m. | #

Really enjoy reading your blog and have done for many, many years. It's inspired us numerous times to get and do something a bit different.
First time commenting, don't know why I've not before.
Here's to many mnay more years.
Thanks.

Colin Rance | 08.09.22 - 10:07 a.m. | #

Congratulations and thanks. I’ve read your blog every day for 10 years or more - mostly for the bits about London, also because you have a gift for writing so even stuff that’d usually bore me seems interesting, & partly because the comments are usually worthwhile too.

Toni | 08.09.22 - 10:09 a.m. | #

After 6000000 words do you still type with 2 fingers or have you improved?
Congratulations.

mclm | 08.09.22 - 10:12 a.m. | #

Congratulations, and thanks!

I think I've been reading every day for at least twelve years. Could be much more, I'm not sure I have a way of finding out.

I can only think of three London websites I've been reading for such a long time, and I still think of them as: Londonist for the cool/hip London, IanVisits for the nerdy London, Diamond Geezer for ALL of London.

I'm amazed that you manage a long article every day, I especially enjoy the ones that spin something interesting out of the most mundane parts of the city.

It's stayed part of my morning ritual all this time, even surviving the switches from desktop PC to laptop to phone, and from commute to home working.

Thanks!

Peter of London | 08.09.22 - 10:32 a.m. | #

Many happy returns. Continually impressed by both your blogging skill and capacity.
More, much more, please.

jpmac | 08.09.22 - 10:35 a.m. | #

All the above.

Just keep carrying on with this right old carry-on.

Dave | 08.09.22 - 10:45 a.m. | #

Well, congratulations then. As only an very occasional commenter, and I don't believe you have ever commented on mine, you break the interactive style of building a blog audience, that is mutual blog comments with people you find that you like and they like you. Yours is successful as a stand alone work of interest to many, no mean feat.

Andrew | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 10:51 a.m. | #

Well done! I've been a reader for most of the 20 years, although as you demonstrated a couple of days ago I am not likely to be around when you reach 40.

Peter | 08.09.22 - 10:53 a.m. | #

Congratulations and thanks! Your blog has been part of my morning routine for a few years now and the day in 2019 when you did a post on a map that I made was a particular highlight!

Sally | 08.09.22 - 10:58 a.m. | #

Congratulations and thank you. It has now become a routine to read your blog every morning wherever I am in the world with access to the internet.
Cheers!

Dave | 08.09.22 - 11:01 a.m. | #

Many Happy Returns, Diamond Geezer.

Some people still wake up to the Today programme, but why do that when this far more interesting blog exists, with a new post daily circa 7am.

Here then is the perfect way to start a day. Chin chin.

yeoldemother | 08.09.22 - 11:25 a.m. | #

Thank you. You don't need me to tell you to carry on, but many readers are cheering you on.
I am not in your league, but I keep thinking I should stop blogging, but then either I read what you have to say, or something I say starts up a very interesting conversation, so I carry on.

Peter Cameron | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 11:33 a.m. | #

The world needs independent interesting investigative intriguing output more than ever these days....

Absolutely!
I've been following you since (I think!) 2007/2008) and while other blogs have come and gone, yours has had me reading every post since!

Particular favourite features (in no particular order):
The Count
Next train indicator saga of Bow Station
Lost/Unlost rivers
Olympic coverage
Birthday Bus Journeys
Not to mention the various wanderings to places we'll never go!

I could spend another 20 years happily reading it all over again - and maybe when I'm old and housebound, I will!!

Cornish Cockney | 08.09.22 - 11:36 a.m. | #

Congratulations! Have been reading since approx. 2006 (at which point I think I went through your entire flikr backlog for extra London inspiration) and it is still my lunch break staple, always entertaining, always leaving me with a further bunch of tabs to read through on some random walk or bus route. Long may this blog continue, please! Also, re: the book - can't you just get a book version of the past 20 years of posts, without changing a thing?

dg writes: 6m words = 75 books

NeverSitStillUK | 08.09.22 - 11:46 a.m. | #

Huge congrats. I may not look at the blog every day but it's always entertaining. As someone who's "done" the Capital Ring, now doing the London Loop and gone on countless Open House adventures I have found your pages (and Pics) invaluable (and links).

Cheers. Long May You Run.
MJ

Marmaduke Jinks | 08.09.22 - 12:02 p.m. | #

Congratulations on a tremendous achievement. I never fail to be amazed at the breadth of your interests and your command of language. Like others I find that if I have some knowledge myself of a place or subject you cover, not only is it accurate and sensitive to the vibe of a place but it also invariably prompts involuntary nods and mutters of agreement as well as bringing a fresh perspective.

Richard Thomas | 08.09.22 - 12:02 p.m. | #

Congratulations, Happy Birthday and thanks for all the insights into London life you’ve posted over the years. Tuned in sometime in the late 2000’s and have pretty much read daily since.
I think this blog shows people don’t just want to read tweets all the time…

Rich C | 08.09.22 - 12:47 p.m. | #

Congrats, you certainly are a Diamond Geezer! Been reading (and thoroughly enjoying) the blog since the Greenwich Phantom disappeared. Thanks very much!

HansG | 08.09.22 - 12:53 p.m. | #

Thank you wholeheartedly for a consistently entertaining, insightful, informative, enlightening, analytical, quirky, stimulating, perceptive, motivational daily read. A source of daily inspiration and insight and a classic archive of our time.

Congratulations on the milestone and long may you continue to enrich our lives!

Strabismus | 08.09.22 - 1:08 p.m. | #

Congratulations! I've been a reader for maybe 15 years? Certainly has helped me learn a lot more about London, even though I don't live there anymore. Thank you!

Simon | 08.09.22 - 1:19 p.m. | #

Thanks for capturing and sharing unique snapshots of the world we share but often fail to see

Martin Bayes | 08.09.22 - 1:25 p.m. | #

Congratulations on a consistent 20 years, and thanks for the daily dose of whimsy - that I've read since around 2003 when moving to Mexico - that kept me attached to London.

Eddie | 08.09.22 - 1:48 p.m. | #

Congratulations and well done. I think I've been reading your blog regularly since the Random Borough days, I think around 12 years maybe as I wasn't there right at the start. Despite me having never lived in London it's cemented my love of the capital and made me realise I'm not alone in finding many of the nerdier elements of it fascinating.

Thank you for everything you've written.

Anders | 08.09.22 - 1:58 p.m. | #

Many thanks for capturing the essence of so many strands of London, and for so long. Doff of the titfer.

Philip Downer | 08.09.22 - 1:59 p.m. | #

"I'm still here because I'm self-disciplined - anyone who's kept a daily diary for 45 years is ideally suited to 20 years of daily blogging."

I've been keeping a diary for 20-ish years, but even so I am nowhere near self-motivated enough to write a daily blogpost too (my last on that front was in January!) What you do is extraordinary and rarely gets the credit it deserves. I will definitely keep reading as long as you keep writing!

James Matcham | 08.09.22 - 2:43 p.m. | #

Thanks for 20 years of interesting content. It is my habit to catch up over lunch. I like it when I have been busy and missed a few days as it means more to catch up with.

Here’s hoping for a further 20 years of interesting writing about London and beyond.

Paul | 08.09.22 - 2:49 p.m. | #

Happy Blogday dg
Best Blog Ever!
Cxx

Chris | 08.09.22 - 2:53 p.m. | #

I was a daily reader when I emigrated from London to Canada 13 years ago, and I'm still a daily reader now. Because of you, I'm still a Londoner. Thank you.

quin | 08.09.22 - 2:55 p.m. | #

Thank you for such an amazing blog and congratulations on 20 years.

Hadders | 08.09.22 - 3:00 p.m. | #

Happy blog Birthday!

I’m really pleased to have been able to offer you that Olympics ticket back in 2012. The words you wrote afterwards were extremely helpful when it came to my visit to watch the real thing later that week :-). Your content throughout the games was top notch and helped me, my friends and family make the most of our time in the park

Here’s to another 20 years

Rob | 08.09.22 - 3:29 p.m. | #

It's a fabulous blog. I've been reading it for years but never commented before. I'm full of admiration for the content, you have inspired many visits to places I would not have known about were if not for the blog. Congratulations on the anniversary and keep up the excellent work ! Best wishes. David

David | 08.09.22 - 4:16 p.m. | #

A wonderful achievement, congratulations!

I wish I could be so get up and go every day...

ap | 08.09.22 - 4:25 p.m. | #

My favourite dg-suggested exhibitions were the zebra finches playing electric guitars at the Barbican, and the End Game where the analogue TV channels slowly died. I would never have heard of them, let alone visited them without reading this blog.

Greg S | 08.09.22 - 4:34 p.m. | #

Thank you for all of your posts throughout the years. I'm from the USA, so have only visited London a few times, but I still regularly visit the blog. It has inspired my love for London! Congratulations! Here's to 20 more years!

Ryan | 08.09.22 - 6:23 p.m. | #

Congratulations.
Keep on blogging!!

MikeK | 08.09.22 - 7:14 p.m. | #

Thank you for all that you've done the last 20 years. I've been reading the blog for about 10 years and I enjoy reading it now as much as when I first started. I only visit London about 2-3 weeks a year so I don't have time to see or walk everything you write about but the things I have been able to do I've enjoyed. That includes visiting an exhibit you wrote about at the Nunnery Gallery, and Bus Stop M after that.

If I ever win the lottery I'm sponsoring the cable car and renaming it 'The Dangleway'.

Bob | 08.09.22 - 7:38 p.m. | #

Always looks forward to seeing what today's post is about and have enjoyed reading all about London and beyond. Has some great inspiration of places to visit from this blog.
Thanks for the blogging!

Paul | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 7:52 p.m. | #

Congratulations. The blog is excellent and very often the best part of my day. Long may it last!!...and thank-you!

cottonsocks | 08.09.22 - 8:07 p.m. | #

I discovered your blog early on, probably because I did have a blog that did moderately okay back in the day (in that folk read it and I made some friends), and my blog was one that used to make your annual link list (I felt so proud!), but sadly I stopped blogging. Mostly as I was feeling a bit sad and more real life people started to know about my blog and it became harder to be open or write something upbeat when that wasn't how I was feeling. But I also wanted to concentrate on writing a novel, and realised a lot of time was going into the blog when perhaps I could move that time elsewhere, not that I have much to show for it (yet, still keeping the dream alive). I am glad you are still blogging and still getting a lot of enjoyment out of it. Congrats! (And nice touch with the black border.)

Jayne | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 8:11 p.m. | #

Congratulations on 20 years. I know how time consuming it can be to keep up even an erratic flow of content on a blog, so I have long marveled at your ability to post new articles every single day. I can't quite remember when I started following your blog but thank you for many years of interesting reads.

FolkestoneJack | 08.09.22 - 8:14 p.m. | #

I’ve been a daily reader for around 15 years; I was an honorary Londoner from 1978-1985 and 1990-2001, and enjoy reading about some of the places I used to know plus all the other incredibly diverse things DG comes up with.

Mark Miller | 08.09.22 - 8:55 p.m. | #

Many congratulations. I've been reading for 19 of the 20 years and can't thank you enough for your excellent continuing writing, rambling, and recording. Will wave a glass in your general direction shortly!

pepperpot80 | 08.09.22 - 8:57 p.m. | #

Congratulations, thank you for every day!

Sidney | 08.09.22 - 10:02 p.m. | #

'I had originally hoped that this blog would help me meet people...' Certainly in sharing your life of curious travels and thoughtful writing you enrich the lives of a wide circle who have become friends who call by daily.

Thank you for amazing blog.

Rod | 08.09.22 - 10:28 p.m. | #

Brilliant stuff - well done - always a good read.

NickW | Homepage | 08.09.22 - 10:41 p.m. | #

You’re a star Diamond Geezer. Happy 20th Anniversary.

Thanks for all your hard work. It’s much appreciated.

Neesi | 08.09.22 - 10:56 p.m. | #

Congratulations and thank you

Mikey C | 08.09.22 - 10:59 p.m. | #

Je vous découvre, le jour de votre vingtième anniversaire. J'ai "vu" Londres il y a cinquante ans et j'en garde un souvenir assez clair mais je ne m'y reconnaîtrais certainement plus. Ma fille aînée y séjourne assez fréquemment et je me ferai un plaisir de lui faire connaître votre blog pour lui offrir le plaisir de découvrir des coins de la ville inexplorées.
Bon anniversaire!!!

lise | 08.09.22 - 11:38 p.m. | #

Happy 20th and thank you!

O | 09.09.22 - 1:03 a.m. | #

Thank you for sharing your enjoyable and insightful commentary each day. It is a highlight of my day to read your latest entry during my lunch break.

Anonymous | 09.09.22 - 4:12 a.m. | #

Thank you. Always a good read.

IslandDweller | 09.09.22 - 6:34 a.m. | #

Happy 20th. Although my favourite post wasn't about London but Bob Dylan.

Welcome | 09.09.22 - 7:00 a.m. | #

Wishing you many Jubilees.

international reader | 09.09.22 - 7:41 a.m. | #

Many congratulations on your exceptional achievement. Yesterday sadly turned out to be a memorable day in more ways than one (I was entering the RAH to be told the news and that the Prom was cancelled, however, the orchestra did play the National Anthem and Nimrod - most moving).

As mentioned a while ago and starting this weekend I will be reading all your posts for pleasure and to hopefully discover what post brought me here. That has to be my favourite one as I have been here ever since.

I know you will edit some of my comments and remove extraneous information, etc., and I admire your zeal in keeping your blog focused according to your parameters.

By the way I had never heard of Yiewsley until I read this post and have discovered it lies two miles south of Uxbridge. I must get out more often!

Ken | 09.09.22 - 7:53 a.m. | #

Congratulations on 20 years, dg.

Dave Walker | Homepage | 09.09.22 - 9:59 a.m. | #

Congrats and keep on blogging, as an outsider of London it is always interesting to hear about the less visited parts of London and quite often "I didn't know that was there" makes me put it on my to do list for a visit. Well done.

H | 09.09.22 - 10:01 a.m. | #

I'll keep this simple.... Amazing blog, and amazing blogger. Another 20 years please.

Frank | 09.09.22 - 10:03 a.m. | #

^ What they all said. I'm fortunate to have found you all those years ago.

Wayne | 09.09.22 - 8:50 p.m. | #

Congratulations!

Gareth | 10.09.22 - 1:05 a.m. | #

1 was first introduced to your website by another website 'Girl with a one track mind'. What does that tell you about me (or you!).

Fred Barker | 10.09.22 - 11:37 a.m. | #

Sometimes I visit regularly, sometimes I catch up after a year or two, but always enjoy the read year after year. Thank you and congrats.

Alex P | 10.09.22 - 7:05 p.m. | #

I think I’ve been reading you from the beginning more or less. I found you via BWs excellent blog which is also still going strong. I’ve not blogged since my late husband passed away but I do art journaling and writing instead which suffices. Congratulations, your posts always are worth reading even if it’s something I am not interested in. Or thought I wasn’t. Here’s to the next 20.

Ambermoggie | 10.09.22 - 9:20 p.m. | #

A belated happy birthday, I always enjoy the blog, thank you.

SJM | 11.09.22 - 12:41 a.m. | #

I'm strictly a once a week reader on a Saturday or Sunday and catch up on the week just passed. I've no idea how long I've been reading, but certainly more than 10 years.

A heartfelt thank you for all your writing. It's really inspiring and comforting in its sincerity, determination and sheer creativity, particularly as the world around us seems to get ever more extreme.

For me there's the added frisson of the pleasing mystery of your living anonymously not so far away. Last weekend when we were on the tube to Bromley-by-Bow to go to our studio, the automated PA announced Bromley Road - I added 'and home of Diamond Geezer' :-)

Colin | Homepage | 11.09.22 - 10:45 a.m. | #

Congratulations Diamond Geezer, both for the constancy and factual detail of your posts as well as the sheer tenacity in achieving twenty years at it! I live in Norfolk now, but decades ago was born in Rush Green. I try not to miss catching up with your antics at least once a week and frequently I’m treated to a nostalgia-fest. Thank you most sincerely.
Graham.

Graham Bould | 11.09.22 - 6:15 p.m. | #

Yours is the only blog I read,not daily but I catch up every week or so, skimming all the entries and reading in full those that interest me. Always a source of brilliant ideas for new, interesting including obscure places to visit in or near London.

Congratulations on your two decades of existence and I look forward to reading into the future.

Victoria | 12.09.22 - 6:22 a.m. | #

Congratulations and thank you! I've only been reading for 50% of that time, but I'm sure I've clicked through to many more historic posts.

You've been a happy ritual during many dull lunchtimes, taught me things I never would have learnt, and sent me to places I probably never would have gone to otherwise.

I think the writing is incisive, honest and witty - it's a public service, and I hope it's appropriately archived in a digital vault somewhere for posterity.

Bravo!

yman | 13.09.22 - 6:01 p.m. | #

Happy bloggiversary!

Just catching up, but I wanted to record my appreciation of what in many aspects has become a reference work for London. So perhaps a 75-book series as the literal Encyclopaedia Londinensis would be apt, although it would certainly be a collectors' item.

commonliner | 01.10.22 - 9:26 a.m. | #

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