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diamond geezer | Homepage | 31.08.21 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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16. Comedy names are very funny though.
😂😂
Geofftech | 31.08.21 - 7:08 a.m. | #
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29. The Brighton based Weezy depot is also in a dingy unmarked arch - this one beneath Brighton station, just along from The Green Door Store (which is a gig venue/nightclub, as opposed to a retail outlet).
Their grocery dash rivals, Getir, operate out of a late 80s/early 90s light industrial estate near Aldrington station - while it's probably nicer, there's much less character to it.
Jamesthegill | 31.08.21 - 7:18 a.m. | #
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9. Olympic Breakfast will probably be back in February.
29. I took a remarkably similar photo of an arch under Leyton Midland Road station this month. I think Getir are in another arch further along the line.
not bert | 31.08.21 - 7:19 a.m. | #
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13. Has anyone ever insured a kettle?
Jim | 31.08.21 - 7:27 a.m. | #
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3. After endless misery with those rubbish flimsy white headphone adapters (as Apple removed the headphone Jack itself), I also took the plunge with Bluetooth headphones. Got a pair for £15 on Amazon and still going strong after more than 1.5 years.
Jacques S | 31.08.21 - 7:38 a.m. | #
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1. Stepney Mini Store was a much nicer place in the days when it was a friendly local pub called "The Pride Of Stepney" where I won a competition one Wednesday evening beating some very stiff competition.
fishislandskin | 31.08.21 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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25. Those plastic tenners slip out of your pocket too easily. They don't fold properly and are desperate to ping back into shape. The slightest provocation and they're out. You could scrunch a paper ten pound note into the bottom corner of your trousers and be confident it'd stay there indefinitely.
Scott | Homepage | 31.08.21 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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8. Last year I often saw an open top Stagecoach Megabus at Mile End bus stand. I think it was being used as a crew bus during the pandemic.
dickturpin | 31.08.21 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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15: I got one of that variety of fuchsia a couple of years ago. They are exceedingly vigorous and fast-growing and it is rapidly taking over the garden. Nab a cutting for your balcony (it'll probably behave better in a pot)
Sarah | Homepage | 31.08.21 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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11, Not even any UHT long life milk, which would be in a different section of the store than the fresh milk
The shortage possibly a "benefit" of Brexit
John | 31.08.21 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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25. Scott's right - have lost at least one fiver this way. The ease with which notes can slip out of your pocket is yet another argument against using cash.
Will | 31.08.21 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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3. Thumbs up.
11. Quite jarring when that happens. The distribution drivers went on strike over here a few years ago and we ended up hoarding UHT.
22. That's cool.
Kevin | 31.08.21 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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8 - took me a few minutes to realise the open top bus was being sent out on a tour route not a normal passenger service. Back when I was at school in the mid 1990s the long gone GM Buses would usually send its fleet out of open top buses out on normal passenger routes on sunny days. Always wanted to see that happen today. Anyway, impressive they rebranded the sides but forgot the back. And have kept the Stagecoach logo even though London's tour buses are owned by RATP.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 31.08.21 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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29 - How does an operation like that manage to generate so much rubbish?
Andrew S | 31.08.21 - 9:49 a.m. | #
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28. I too managed to finish the bank holiday special jigsaw crossword after a marathon session on Saturday evening. After several years of slightly disappointing 'specials', I thought that this weekend's offering was on a par with some of the fondly remembered Araucaria specials.
Nigel | 31.08.21 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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2. So annoying when they do that.
18. Thanks, I'll check it out.
19. Random!
20. I thought I was doing well having only just discovered a still unopened box of chocolates from 3 weeks ago!!
Cornish Cockney | 31.08.21 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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28 I agree an excellent and incredibly clever crossword. It involved a bit of googling on my part as I lacked detailed knowledge of the theme.
Incidentally, although I'm sure that you already know of it, there is an excellent site called 15 squared who offer explanations of the clues and comments on several papers' crosswords. Saturday's prize one will not be there yet as they wait a week until the solution appears in the printed paper.
Martin | 31.08.21 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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24. The whole thing about St Swithin's day has been screwed up anyway because of the calendar change in the 1750s.
16. Every year my sister would send me a tenner for my birthday but she'd include all the funny story newspaper or health cuttings she'd clipped out (can't have too many prostate scare stories y'know). One year it exceeded weight or thickness and I got a card from the postie to say pick this up at the depot and pay the penalty (I just "knew" it was my sister's card). So I paid up the penalty. Net gain about a fiver instead of a tenner. I bemoaned it to my mum who sent me a fiver in compensation ;-)
Marmaduke Jinks | 31.08.21 - 11:31 a.m. | #
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21. I didn't know about this 50p either. Certainly a worthy thing to celebrate, but the design just makes me think of the Crystal Dome from The Crystal Maze.
the wub | 31.08.21 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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19: Around the same time I saw a limping rat in Hampstead, staggering around on the Rosslyn Hill pavement. Poisoned I assume.
Mikey C | 31.08.21 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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17) I had a great view of a kingfisher on Saturday. I was on a long walk home having been dropped off about 7 miles away and, while I paused by a stream a couple of miles in, it flew up the stream, perched on a twig about 10m away and waited there for a few seconds before flying back again.
X-Plaistow | 31.08.21 - 11:55 a.m. | #
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4: The battery issue is negligible if they are charged regularly (my usage means that once per week suffices, but less frequent than that risks the phones going out)
Patrickov | 31.08.21 - 12:37 p.m. | #
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28. Glad to hear it's finishable - two of us have been hammering away for three days (with heavy use of Google) and the grid is still only 2/3rds complete. I appreciate this setter's effort but they do seem to rely heavily on obscurities and doubtful parsing; there also always seems to be some unsatisfying exception to the rules, e.g. the split 'normal' clue this time.
Tom | 31.08.21 - 12:54 p.m. | #
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1) My local big Tesco only sells 'west country' own brand milk, so no Brexit dramas. About time we had a Buy British campaign. Seem to recall that east London Tesco sourced theirs in Ireland, although that could have been Sainsbury's. Whichever, unnecessary miles.
scrumpy | 31.08.21 - 1:10 p.m. | #
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Point 16. Someone sent me something addressed to Highriser, St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Did the PO give me a hard time when collecting, yes.
Andrew | Homepage | 31.08.21 - 1:10 p.m. | #
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8. AB, head to Dorset, where you can travel topless on routes 501 and X52.
miker | 31.08.21 - 1:20 p.m. | #
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8 - Miker - bit of a trek for me. Bit nearer for me will be the open top routes run by Stagecoach in the Lake District! Not quite the same as pounding the streets of Greater Manchester though.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 31.08.21 - 1:35 p.m. | #
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22. I'm completely bummed that this event didn't warrant a full blog post. You could have titled it Just Can't Get Enough....Accuracy.
Steven | 31.08.21 - 7:25 p.m. | #
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28. It is indeed finishable. But my goodness, some of the answers...
Tom | 31.08.21 - 9:34 p.m. | #
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14. Do visit us at Greenwich Parkrun. You will be more than welcome!
H SE18 | 31.08.21 - 10:16 p.m. | #
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Days which have not inspired comment:
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(but the majority have, cheers!)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 31.08.21 - 11:58 p.m. | #
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13) As a (very recent) ex-Argos-employee, I can hazard a guess at the colleague's iciness: all till-trained staff work under financial services targets (tied into insurance and/or in-store credit cards) and buying directly from the till (as opposed to the browsers on the shop floor) inadvertantly casues the staff member to accrue a 'failure' if they don't manage to successfully flog you a care service or a card. Irritating for customers and colleagues alike, I know.
Josh | 01.09.21 - 1:17 p.m. | #
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12. You can make it bigger in the settings (accessibility > display)
JG | Homepage | 03.09.21 - 12:23 a.m. | #
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8) I used to live on the route of the Cambridge tour bus. A summer spent revising with the window open was interrupted regularly by the same 10 seconds of commentary: “by the end of the road the students were on their hands and knees, giving us the expression ‘pub crawl’” never took the bus myself to hear the start of the sentence.
(Catching up after a week away from the laptop and wondering if you ever notice old comments, but this one seems more relevant than most I make!)
TomH | 03.09.21 - 2:38 p.m. | #
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