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diamond geezer
The village quiz From: Diamond Geezer Content Producing Minion 4 To: Diamond Geezer Content Coordination Tsar As a...
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a year ago
From: Diamond Geezer Content Producing Minion 4 To: Diamond Geezer Content Coordination Tsar As a result of my unexpected overnight stay I ended up being pressganged into the village quiz instead. This annual event brings the whole community together as teams of six from the...
diamond geezer
Still hanging around Yesterday was one of this blog's 20 busiest days, not because everyone's really interested in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday was one of this blog's 20 busiest days, not because everyone's really interested in National Trust properties but because an old post hit an international news aggregator. My post about Crossrail timewasting ended up on hckr news under the headline "25% of the 13 minute...
diamond geezer
The news from your borough The News From Your Borough If I went to your borough yesterday, here's some news from...
a year ago
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a year ago
The News From Your Borough If I went to your borough yesterday, here's some news from it. Barnet Brent Camden the same name for a pub they've rebranded on Camden High Street so I'm suddenly much less impressed. Also Tripadvisor reckons that Brondes Age is #14,524 of 15,760...
Londonist
There Are So Many Swan Lakes Coming To London This Summer The Year of the Swan.
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Energen Close While I was in Willesden, round the back of Taylors Lane Power Station, I came across this...
8 months ago
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While I was in Willesden, round the back of Taylors Lane Power Station, I came across this oddly-named cul-de-sac. That's an odd name for a cul-de-sac, I thought. Why was Energen Close named after a private company? Powergen, not Energen, although they were founded in 1989 so...
diamond geezer
Substacks For those who like writing online, the blogging platform of choice continues to evolve. Substack,...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
For those who like writing online, the blogging platform of choice continues to evolve. Substack, founded in 2017, which has been picking up more and more top writers of late. I have no intention of jumping ship, let's make that clear at the start, but I thought I'd take a...
Londonist
Fitzrovia Chapel - Gloriously Golden Church Is Now Open 3 Days A Week What. A. Ceiling.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Marlborough Street MARLBOROUGH STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets MARLBOROUGH STREET Colour group:...
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6 months ago
MARLBOROUGH STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets MARLBOROUGH STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price: £180 Rent: £14 Length: 300m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 Great Marlborough Street. To understand why, remember that the orange set of properties were originally all...
Spoon & Tamago
Creatures of the Echigo Sea Emerge from Straw in the 2023 Wara Art Festival Autumn is officially upon us. It’s the season of shorter days, brighter moons and bountiful...
a year ago
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a year ago
Autumn is officially upon us. It’s the season of shorter days, brighter moons and bountiful harvests. Niigata prefecture, in Northern Japan, is known for its rice paddies and rice production. Around this time of year the rice harvest becomes a big deal, as well as the tons of...
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15 Best Glamping Resorts Around the World
a year ago
diamond geezer
New year, new niggles My 2020 niggle arrived during lockdown. It started small. It wasn't much of a niggle to start with,...
a year ago
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a year ago
My 2020 niggle arrived during lockdown. It started small. It wasn't much of a niggle to start with, it just came on. They say it happens to most people so I shouldn't have been surprised. It was still a bit of a shock though. The first inkling was several years ago. It's got more...
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9 Must-Visit Religious UNESCO Sites in Germany
7 months ago
diamond geezer
Hog Hill and Dog Kennel Hill Things on Hills: Hog Hill and Dog Kennel Hill Where the heck are we? The far side of Redbridge,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Things on Hills: Hog Hill and Dog Kennel Hill Where the heck are we? The far side of Redbridge, almost in Havering Be more precise: On the southern edge of Hainault Country Park Nearest tube station: Fairlop, but 1½ miles away so hardly near Nearest bus routes: both the 247 and...
Londonist
Cycle All Day For £3, As Santander Cycles Introduces New Day Pass We feel a challenge coming on...
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Planned closures An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's...
a year ago
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a year ago
An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's 67 stations with no train service of any kind, or 25% of the entire tube network. What's more only 23 of these are getting a replacement bus service. Residents of Stanmore, Turnham...
diamond geezer
Snowflakes A lot has been added to the tube map in recent years. Accessibility blobs, walking connections,...
a year ago
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a year ago
A lot has been added to the tube map in recent years. Accessibility blobs, walking connections, cablecars, trams, river piers and most recently Thameslink, all have been shoehorned into an increasingly cluttered diagram. But whatever ridiculous woke nonsense have they added...
Spoon & Tamago
Oimachi’s New Shopping Oasis Coexists with the Mountains and Sea All images © Osamu Morishita Architect and Associates Built on reclaimed land that seamlessly blends...
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a year ago
All images © Osamu Morishita Architect and Associates Built on reclaimed land that seamlessly blends the expanse of the sea with the majestic mountains, ‘See-Sea Park‘ is a new commercial complex spanning over an area of 10,800 square meters in Oimachi, Fukui. The structure aims...
Londonist
Where To Celebrate Diwali 2023 In London Including the huge, free Diwali Festival.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Where's Gail's? The bakery chain Gail's has been busy spreading its sourdough tentacles across London over recent...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The bakery chain Gail's has been busy spreading its sourdough tentacles across London over recent years. It had been doing this successfully and also quietly until it dared to suggest opening a branch in Walthamstow Village whose residents promptly set up a petition to campaign...
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The Safest Countries for LGBTQ Travelers
a year ago
diamond geezer
Weather 2023 the dg weather review of the year used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too...
a year ago
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a year ago
the dg weather review of the year used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too much effort for too little reward so here's a breezier summary. All data is for Hampstead, as per usual.  temperaturerainfallsunshine Janmild then...
Londonist
Modern London Is Beautiful In This New Photographic Book London: A Modern City in Photographs by Mathew Browne.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Senko Hanabi Earrings are the Perfect Summer Accessory Summer in Japan is not summer in Japan without fireworks. The tradition originated over 280 years...
a year ago
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a year ago
Summer in Japan is not summer in Japan without fireworks. The tradition originated over 280 years ago as a means of warding off epidemics and today, no matter where you are in Japan, you can be sure to encounter fireworks festivals both large and small. And while the grand...
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What to Know About Renting an Electric Vehicle
a year ago
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6 Reasons To Travel by Private Yacht in Croatia
10 months ago
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7 Best Travel Credit Cards of July 2023
a year ago
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London: January 2024 Cuteness overload and a light show to kick off a capital year of culture.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Evolving Themes of Absence and Presence in the Paintings of Minoru Nomata Still-28 1986 Painting is an escapist world, but I would like it to be a place to become energized...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Still-28 1986 Painting is an escapist world, but I would like it to be a place to become energized Minoru Nomata Over the past four decades, Minoru Nomata has developed a distinctive painting style characterized by imaginary architectonic and topographical forms. His works...
diamond geezer
London's wind turbines I was in Dagenham and I saw this wind turbine and I wondered How many wind turbines are there in...
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6 months ago
I was in Dagenham and I saw this wind turbine and I wondered How many wind turbines are there in London? So I made a map using OpenStreetMap and OverpassTurbo. It produced a map showing 44 wind turbines in the Greater London area. Except I looked a bit closer and some of...
diamond geezer
Unblogged October 31 unblogged things I did in October Sun 1: If you're putting together a 'Joyridden Cars Smashed...
a year ago
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a year ago
31 unblogged things I did in October Sun 1: If you're putting together a 'Joyridden Cars Smashed Into Bus Shelters' Calendar, this is the ideal photo for November. Mon 2: I've been enjoying the podcast Uncharted with Hannah Fry in which the BBC's go-to mathematician tells...
Londonist
The Biggest Exhibitions To See In London This Winter Over 30 excellent exhibitions to choose from
a year ago
diamond geezer
Pudding Mill Lane 10 The DLR's youngest station is ten years old today. Pudding Mill Lane opened on 28th April 2014...
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The DLR's youngest station is ten years old today. Pudding Mill Lane opened on 28th April 2014 and remains unnecessarily enormous. Caveat: The station which opened 10 years ago was a rebuild paid for by Crossrail, because the original sat on the precise site where purple...
Londonist
Paul Foot Is Barmy Brilliance In A Boiler Suit A hilarious, uncynical, remarkable piece of comedy.
10 months ago
diamond geezer
Canary Wharf 25 Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail station (that's 2) but the Jubilee line station which opened mid-afternoon on Friday 17th September 1999. The relentless commercialisation of Canary Wharf station "Twenty banks of...
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Navigating Austria by Rail: A Guide
6 months ago
Londonist
Buy A Toy For One Of The 5,000 Poorest London Kids In London This Christmas Winter Toy Appeal back for 10th year.
a year ago
Londonist
Dive Into This Astoundingly Detailed Illustration Of Somerset House Adam Dant is at it again.
9 months ago
Londonist
Never Before Seen Images Of The Rolling Stones To Go On Show In Notting Hill 27 rare pics of Mick, Keef and co.
10 months ago
Londonist
Art Of The Brick: New LEGO Show Comes To London In March 90 sculptures, one million bricks.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Coventry Street COVENTRY STREET £260   London's Monopoly Streets COVENTRY STREET Colour group: yellow Purchase...
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COVENTRY STREET £260   London's Monopoly Streets COVENTRY STREET Colour group: yellow Purchase price: £260 Rent: £22 Length: 200m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1/WC2 Coventry Street owes its name to Charles II's secretary of state, Henry Coventry, who'd built a house here...
diamond geezer
Carpenters Road Carpenters Road has reopened again. It has a habit of doing this. 2007 so its rundown automotive...
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7 months ago
Carpenters Road has reopened again. It has a habit of doing this. 2007 so its rundown automotive industries could be snuffed out in readiness for the Olympics. It took until 2014 to reopen, freshly sanitised, as a link road round the back of the Olympic Park. It then closed...
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What to Know About Europe’s 2024 ETIAS Entry Program
a year ago
Londonist
Celebrate The Bicentenary Of This Great Gothic Revival Architect G E Street tours, talks and more.
9 months ago
Londonist
Santa Steam Express: Meet Father Christmas On A Vintage Train In London The kids will be chuffed.
a year ago
Londonist
Tube And Trains Will Be Off-Peak All Day Friday For 3-Month Trial Drive to revive Fridays.
11 months ago
The Forney Flyer
Run For Radios This week our whole family ran for radios in support of Every Village. If you're not familiar with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week our whole family ran for radios in support of Every Village. If you're not familiar with them, take a moment to check them out now.  Joy and the kids walked a brisk (and dizzying) 32 laps around our yard... ...which not coincidentally equals a solid 5K! As I've...
Cheese and Biscuits
AngloThai at Outcrop, the Strand Part of the vast, shiny new 180 Strand development, AngloThai at Outcrop is an entirely outside -...
a year ago
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a year ago
Part of the vast, shiny new 180 Strand development, AngloThai at Outcrop is an entirely outside - albeit thankfully mainly covered - restaurant designed to make the most of the summer months. Unfortunately on Friday the weather was a bit more traditionally Anglo than Thai,...
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How to Plan a Relaxing Getaway in the Austrian Alps
6 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Oren, Dalston Mumbling and grumbling during my journey to Dalston the other night, as the 38 bus did an average...
a year ago
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a year ago
Mumbling and grumbling during my journey to Dalston the other night, as the 38 bus did an average speed of just less than walking pace all the way from Holborn in the pouring rain, just helped to highlight how I end up travelling to some parts of town for dinner over and over...
Londonist
Punk Bands In 1970s London: Rescued And Never-Before-Seen-Photos Free exhibition only on for a month.
a year ago
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7 Must-Try Winter Activities in Park City, Utah
2 weeks ago
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A Walking Guide to Pasadena's Hidden Gems
3 months ago
The Forney Flyer
Flood Relief Flying You may remember that I mentioned in a previous blog post a few weeks ago, that there had been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You may remember that I mentioned in a previous blog post a few weeks ago, that there had been severe floods in Western Uganda (and other parts of the country) in early-mid May. Well, several weeks later, we were given special permission by various authorities to fly relief...
diamond geezer
100 tuts and a sigh 100 tuts and a sigh beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
100 tuts and a sigh beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the aisle? Why did you set the ringer on your phone to maximum volume? Who rotated the Cyclists Beware sign so traffic can't read it? Why has nobody rotated the sign back to where it...
Londonist
Time Travel Back To 17th Century London - With This Royalist Reenactment Along The Mall Commemorating the execution of Charles I.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Tube map gaps It's exactly 11 months since London last had a new tube map. Intervals between tube maps in reverse...
a month ago
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a month ago
It's exactly 11 months since London last had a new tube map. Intervals between tube maps in reverse chronological order 11 months Dec 2023  A Little Slice of Paradise ← Brent Cross West 7 months May 2023  Come Out, Come Out 6 months Nov 2022  Routes/Roots ← Bond Street 6...
Spoon & Tamago
Exploring Japanese Hell Through Art from the 12th to 19th Century As a child, growing up in Japan, there was one book that terrified me. Luckily, I didn’t own it. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
As a child, growing up in Japan, there was one book that terrified me. Luckily, I didn’t own it. The red hardback sat on the bottom shelf in my friend’s room and every time I went over to play I could see it, out of the corner of my eye, staring me in the face. […] Related...
diamond geezer
Borough visitor websites Some London boroughs like to have a web presence that draws tourists in, should anyone be...
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Some London boroughs like to have a web presence that draws tourists in, should anyone be interested, or highlights places of interest for the benefit of local residents. These websites attempt to reinforce the idea that a borough has history, or culture, or some sort of life,...
Londonist
Things To Do In London In The Christmas Holidays With Kids Theatre shows, exhibitions and Christmas events.
a year ago
Londonist
Theatreship: London's Newest Cultural Venue Is On A Boat Cinema, theatre, lecture hall, bar...
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Anorak Corner - bus edition Anorak Corner [bus edition] (annual update) Once again TfL have silently published their annual...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anorak Corner [bus edition] (annual update) Once again TfL have silently published their annual spreadsheet listing the number of passengers using every London bus route and how many kilometres those buses travelled. Data is for April 2022 - March 2023. Comparisons are with the...
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These Airlines Make Flying Easier for Travelers With Autism
a year ago
diamond geezer
It's this blog's 21st birthday It's diamond geezer's 21st birthday. I hope we get through the day without entering a period of...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's diamond geezer's 21st birthday. I hope we get through the day without entering a period of national mourning because that really put a damper on last year's celebrations. comments if(postComments['2129182084125'] != null){document.write(' (' + postComments['2129182084125']...
diamond geezer
Bus stops served by the most buses Sunday was the 5th best day ever on diamond geezer, visitornumberswise, and came within a smidge of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Sunday was the 5th best day ever on diamond geezer, visitornumberswise, and came within a smidge of being the 4th. As usual it had nothing to do with something I'd just written, just thousands of people piling onto an old post which just happened to answer a question someone had...
Londonist
Black History Month Events In London 2023 Walks, talks, markets and music legends.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Trunk Hotel’s Newest Yoyogi Park Location Embraces Its Neighboring Park and City photos by Tomooki Kengaki courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Architects Trunk Hotel Yoyogi Park is a new...
a year ago
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photos by Tomooki Kengaki courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Architects Trunk Hotel Yoyogi Park is a new boutique hotel located in Tokyo’s quiet Tomigaya neighborhood that just opened this month. Designed by architect Keiji Ashizawa, the 7-story hotel has 25 rooms, a restaurant and a...
Londonist
Hundreds Of Boats Race On The Thames The Week Before Oxford Vs Cambridge Ever seen the Head of the River Race?
9 months ago
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How to Visit Japan's "Art Islands"
a year ago
Londonist
20+ Cheery Things To Do In London In January 2024 Events to get you through the dark winter days.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Gherkin Christmas
a year ago
Herbert Lui
Deliberate play When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those...
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a week ago
When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those were long years. Every day, I was tasked with practicing two or three songs six times. During exam season, I would need to practice my exam songs ten times perfectly—which meant that...
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17+ Crowd-Free Things to Do in Paris This Summer
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Med Salleh Viet, Earl's Court It's a funny old part of town is Earl's Court. Not quite Kensington, not quite Chelsea, not many...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
It's a funny old part of town is Earl's Court. Not quite Kensington, not quite Chelsea, not many reasons to visit (certainly not since the conference center/arena got pulled down), it's these days little more than a fairly ordinary provincial high street dumped in West London,...
diamond geezer
Stratford & Bow election roundup Stratford & Bow election roundup my constituency? Leaflets yes • Uma Kumaran (Labour) A letter...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Stratford & Bow election roundup my constituency? Leaflets yes • Uma Kumaran (Labour) A letter from Keir with his six pledges, minimal promises. Looks like they sent out millions of these. • Halima Khan (Workers Party) Roughly-folded and left sticking out of all our...
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Here's Your 7-Day Escape to the British Virgin Islands
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
OMA, Borough Market Dave Carter, a big friendly giant of a man with a completely impenetrable Barbadian accent, began...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Dave Carter, a big friendly giant of a man with a completely impenetrable Barbadian accent, began his London restaurant journey at Smokestak, the hugely influential East London BBQ joint. Smokestak, together with a tiny handful of other brave pioneers around the same time...
Londonist
Get Toasty In This King's Cross Sauna For Just £6 A Session Slow Motion Sauna is in town for three weeks.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Trafalgar Square TRAFALGAR SQUARE £240   London's Monopoly Streets TRAFALGAR SQUARE Colour group: red Purchase...
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5 months ago
TRAFALGAR SQUARE £240   London's Monopoly Streets TRAFALGAR SQUARE Colour group: red Purchase price: £240 Rent: £20 Area: 3 acres Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 four streets on the Monopoly board (all the pinks plus Strand) and is also a property in its own right. I've...
diamond geezer
The news from Barking and Dagenham Yesterday I went to the Becontree estate to take some photos of its churches. Then I added those...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Yesterday I went to the Becontree estate to take some photos of its churches. Then I added those photos to yesterday's post about churches on estates. I didn't add this photo, even though it was my favourite. This is St Cedd's in Becontree. It has a lovely postwar copper roof...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Royal Oak, Whatcote There are so many different types of restaurant, so much variety in the ways and manner and styles...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
There are so many different types of restaurant, so much variety in the ways and manner and styles that we eat out, that sometimes it's amazing we find anything in common about the experience at all. And yet somehow we do, and restaurant critics and food blogs exist because, by...
Londonist
Quirky Christmas Eats To Sink Your Teeth Into Around London From mince pie doughnuts to spiced Aperol spritzes.
a year ago
Londonist
'Stand Against Suella' Protest Takes Place In Central London On Sunday LGBTQ groups rally against dehumanising rhetoric.
a year ago
Londonist
Five Big Firsts For West End Cinemas From the first British talkie to the first circular cinema.
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 2-3 March 2024 Foodie events, live music, and last chance to see a flower festival before it closes.
10 months ago
Londonist
Wish You Were (Still) Here: Piccadilly's Egyptian Hall London's most beautiful pastiche?
10 months ago
Londonist
50+ Excellent Things To Do In London This Month: October 2023 Black History Month, live music, Comic Con and more.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Wembley Brook THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Wembley Brook Sudbury → Wembley → Tokyngton (2½ miles) This one's minor...
a year ago
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a year ago
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Wembley Brook Sudbury → Wembley → Tokyngton (2½ miles) This one's minor enough that I'd never heard of it before squinting more closely at a map of Wembley. This may be because the brook only spends a mile on the surface and spends the rest of its...
Londonist
An Airport In Hyde Park? It Could Have Happened 1920s proposal envisaged a VERY central aerodrome.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Kawazu Cherry Blossoms in Shizuoka Now in Full Bloom The Kawazu-Zakura cherry blossoms  If you’re sick of winter and ready for spring, head to Shizuoka’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The Kawazu-Zakura cherry blossoms  If you’re sick of winter and ready for spring, head to Shizuoka’s Kawazu City, the host of one of Japan’s earliest cherry blossom festivals. The Kawazu-zakura cherry blossoms are known for blossoming early and some trees are already beginning to...
Spoon & Tamago
Osaka Celebrates Star Festival with River of 40,000 LED Lights Evoking the Milky Way The Okawa River, which runs through central Osaka, was lit up on Friday with 40,000 LED lights...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Okawa River, which runs through central Osaka, was lit up on Friday with 40,000 LED lights floating down the river as they evoked the celestial milky way. The surreal scene was part of a celebration of Tanabata, or the Star Festival, which is a major summer festival in Japan...
diamond geezer
Marylebone MARYLEBONE  STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets MARYLEBONE STATION Group: British...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
MARYLEBONE  STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets MARYLEBONE STATION Group: British Railways Purchase price: £200 Rent: £25 Annual passengers: 10 million Borough: Westminster Postcode: NW1 that question, announcements on the Bakerloo line pronounce it MARR-le-bone. A...
diamond geezer
Route 24 A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen...
a year ago
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a year ago
A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen to start with London's oldest unchanged bus route, the 24's north/south run from Hampstead down to Pimlico. Rest assured I won't be writing a full travelogue because I did that...
Londonist
London Overground Lines Get New Names And Colours The Liberty line?
10 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Little Cellars, Camberwell Having enjoyed the original Peckham Cellars very much, I eagerly jumped on a very kind invitation to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Having enjoyed the original Peckham Cellars very much, I eagerly jumped on a very kind invitation to their new Camberwell offshoot. Little Cellars is aptly named - there's a couple of high tables for 6 in the middle of the room and 8 lower seats arranged looking out of the two...
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Fort Myers: Your Gateway to Unforgettable Outdoor Adventures
7 months ago
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U.S. Airplane Bathrooms Must Meet New Accessibility Rules
a year ago
diamond geezer
Fenchurch Street FENCHURCH   STREET STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets FENCHURCH STREET STATION Group:...
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4 months ago
FENCHURCH   STREET STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets FENCHURCH STREET STATION Group: British Railways Purchase price: £200 Rent: £25 Annual passengers: 10 million Borough: City of London Postcode: EC3 Fenchurch Street was between 1923 and 1948. It's a small and mostly...
diamond geezer
Extinguishing the 497 This post is about little-used buses on the eastern edge of Havering. If you've never ridden the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This post is about little-used buses on the eastern edge of Havering. If you've never ridden the 346, 347 or 497 it may not be for you. least frequent bus (speciality routes excepted), and Geoff's just made a video about it. consultation to tweak/combine/withdraw these three...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 20-21 January 2024 Two words: cheese market.
11 months ago
Londonist
Petition Launched As Stratford's Beloved Market Village Suddenly Closes It'd been going for over 30 years.
11 months ago
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Hammersmith And City Line It's London's newest line; or second-oldest.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Ealing NEWS North Ealing northernmost point in the borough of Ealing. Which is here in the corner of Roxeth...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
North Ealing northernmost point in the borough of Ealing. Which is here in the corner of Roxeth Recreation Ground. North Ealing station is 4 miles away. Roxeth Rec may be large but it's tucked into a dead end wedge between two railway lines, hidden behind a rack of terraced...
Londonist
Another Free Quentin Blake Exhibition In April The master illustrator is back.
9 months ago
Londonist
HOW MUCH Sewage Did Thames Water Pump Into The Thames? We do the math.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Tube 160 Treasure Hunt Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a surprise birthday gift from TfL? If the answer to all these questions is yes then why not take part in the Tube 160 Treasure Hunt? You even get to travel round central London for...
Spoon & Tamago
The Playable Poetry of Zeni Tainaka The Day I Couldn’t Write a Poem is a short, playable game in which the reader moves a character...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The Day I Couldn’t Write a Poem is a short, playable game in which the reader moves a character through text, interacting with obstacles and making your way through a narrative. It’s the work of Zennyan (Zeni Tainaka), a Japanese pixel artist who has been experimenting with...
diamond geezer
The greatest sport Why is football the world's greatest sport? It might not be your favourite sport but that's not...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Why is football the world's greatest sport? It might not be your favourite sport but that's not relevant here - on a global stage football dominates all. One reason is that football's so simple to play. It's just you and a ball and all you have to do is kick it. Most other...
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Twenty years ago today I brought you my very first Random Borough report from the London borough of Merton. But it was fairly brief - most of my posts were back then - so two decades on I'm having another go to do Merton justice. Yesterday somewhere sporty and somewhere pretty,...
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On Saturday I proposed that 18U Brondesbury Park NW6 7BT is London's highest lettered house. Nothing's going to beat a run of houses that goes 18J, 18K, 18L, 18M, 18N, 18P, 18Q, 18R, 18S, 18T, 18U, I thought. Not so. There are in fact over 50 properties in the capital that can...
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Sometimes while out and about I see something intriguing, take a photo and research it when I get home. Here are three of this week's serendipitous discoveries. North: Gilpin's Bell Where: Fore Street, Edmonton, N18 What I thought: Hmm, what's that lump of concrete in the...
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Inconsequential transport news The graphic shows a child standing beside an adult, well away from the teeth at the edge. But it also breaks the cardinal rule of "standing on the right", indeed if every parent chose to behave this way it'd block walker-uppers and...
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Is there no limit to the number of tube map variants? It prioritises the Circle line whose traditional loop has been manipulated into a perfect circle, but it distorts the hell out of all the other tube lines. Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus are on opposite sides of the...
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I said I wasn't going to make a habit of this, and I'm not, but I've ticked off two more. The black ticks are all the crossings I've crossed and the latest two are the pair just northeast of Noak Hill. I walked out of one and back in via the other. In the middle were...
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The 25th bus stop on route 25 I'm starting at the western end of the route, or at least where route 25 now starts following several sequential truncations. In 1950 the western end was at Victoria station, the 25 being the route that plied through Mayfair, then in 1992 this...
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photos courtesy Wara Art Festival Autumn is officially upon us. It’s the season of shorter days, brighter moons and bountiful harvests. Niigata prefecture, in Northern Japan, is known for its rice paddies and rice production. Around this time of year the rice harvest becomes a...
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Would you like to see another tube map typo? It's not a spelling mistake it's a missing word, if that helps you spot it. Nobody at TfL spotted it, nor anybody at the printers, or if they did they just thought never mind let's use these duff maps anyway. I've checked other...
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Yesterday I took the train to Surrey to tick off two more National Trust properties. Cost of off-peak return from Waterloo to Clandon: £14.50 Cost of off-peak return from Wimbledon to Clandon: £8.00 (so maybe do that) You alight the train a couple of stops before Guildford and...
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2023 felt like a turning point for Japan. After several years of covid-induced seclusion, tourism rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. And although just anecdotal, so many people we spoke to who previously had no connection to Japan, were planning trips and honeymoons that it truly...
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Every London borough hosts a Remembrance event, maybe several. The parade lines up outside the museum and awaits the signal. Everyone important's here, all the civic dignitaries apart from those who've been delegated to officiate at the borough's three other memorials. The...
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While I was in Enfield, heading away from the power station, I decided to depart across Sewardstone Marsh. Why exit the dull way when you can cross the Lea and walk through a minor Essex village? The riverside path passed nosey ponies and a pumping station and crossed three...
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Subscribe now to get a dose of London transport news in your inbox every Tuesday. The Main Drag acton mail line. What's more they'd made this spelling error previously in spring 2021 and now they'd made it again in autumn 2023. It wasn't clever. We may have giggled. acton...
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Artist Yukihiro Akama is set to unveil his largest exhibition to date, ‘Basho no Kankaku – A Sense of Place,’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). Related posts: Whimsical Wooden Automata by Kazuaki Harada A Wooden Cabin Constructed Locally in the Mountains of Japan Using a 3D...
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You Can Play With This Miniature Tube Train At Hounslow West Underground Station There's no way you're not pressing that button.
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Simple and common acts of nature often inspire brilliant design. Such is the case with “Puddle,” a series of flower vessels that mimic a puddle of water. Using properties of transparency and surface tension, these whimsical vessels create the illusion of a single plant growing...
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According to statistics, Tokyo is home to over 1800 Shinto shrines. You have your major shrines like Meiji-Jingu and Hie Shrine but there are many other tiny shrines, often unstaffed and nestled in the depths of back streets and behind buildings. Tearing down a shrine would be...
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2024 fares TfL's annual fare rise was announced last yesterday. And it's no fare rise at all. "The Mayor of...
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TfL's annual fare rise was announced last yesterday. And it's no fare rise at all. "The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today announced bold action to freeze TfL fares this year, to support Londoners struggling with the cost of living and London’s recovery from the pandemic....
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Route SL5: Bromley North - Croydon Town Centre Length of journey: 7 miles, 35 minutes Superloop sprang into action yesterday, and it's an oddity. Firstly it's the shortest of the seven circuitous routes. Secondly it doesn't serve any major centres of population other than at its...
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10 Centuries In 1 Day may not have been a very good walk. London's a Roman city, can we do 20 centuries? 16th-21st century This is the easy bit. 21st century Gherkin (2004) I'm going to pick The Shard (2013). It's still the tallest building in western Europe. 20th...
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Extremities of extremities For today's post I've visited the least extreme points in London's most extreme boroughs. As...
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9 months ago
For today's post I've visited the least extreme points in London's most extreme boroughs. As posts go it's a lot of effort for scant reward. Hillingdon East [map] Borderline with: Ealing Location: Yeading/Southall Specifically: bend on Grand Union towpath Distance from...
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Having identified London's longest and shortest High Streets, I thought I'd better visit them. London's shortest High Street High Street (Wembley) [50 metres] The first thing that strikes you about High Street is it's on a hill, indeed this is likely how the road originally...
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As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the elderly becomes an increasingly important issue. And while elderly populations are typically seen as a burden, there are places around rural Japan that offer glimpses of a more...
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The centre of London The centre of London is generally taken to be the statue of Charles I on the south side of Trafalgar...
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8 months ago
The centre of London is generally taken to be the statue of Charles I on the south side of Trafalgar Square. It sits on the site of the original Charing Cross and is also the point from which mileages are measured, as a plaque at its foot attests. 1) The centroid centroid is...
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On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and wet, I thought it might be fun to review a taco shop in southern California, because it's days like this you need to remind yourself that there are places in the world where the sun...
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Which Tube Station Is Furthest From Its Namesake? How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?
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England's 100 largest towns One reason I went to Redditch is that it's one of England's largest towns and I'm trying to turn...
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One reason I went to Redditch is that it's one of England's largest towns and I'm trying to turn this list blue. Admittedly it's only number 98, but every blogpost counts. England's 100 largest towns and cities by population 1-10: London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol,...
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Past, Present and Future of Tokyo on Full Display in World’s Largest Architectural... From the deep forests of Okutama and the vibrant coral reefs of Ogasawara, to the sleepless neon...
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From the deep forests of Okutama and the vibrant coral reefs of Ogasawara, to the sleepless neon lights of Shinjuku, Tokyo truly is one of the most diverse cities. And while one could argue that it has enough night lights, a new nightly projection mapping display will light up...
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The introduction of line names on the Overground is sure to bring sightseers to Havering to see what the Liberty line is all about. So here's my tip-top tourist guide to help you find the finest places in the locality, some of which are actually rather fine. 10 things to see on...
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QEOP development check Ten years ago, when Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park fully opened, I showed you this graphic showing all...
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Ten years ago, when Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park fully opened, I showed you this graphic showing all the adjacent parcels of land proposed for development. Ignore the blues because they were already up and running in 2014, specifically the East Village (previously the Athletes...
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A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a very long time (below). Over the past year and a half quite a few of the upcountry airstrips in Uganda (especially in Karamoja) deteriorated so badly that we had to stop using...
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Spoon & Tamago
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Tamatsukuri Kindergarten is a school for early-learning that is located in a forested region of Japan’s Chiba prefecture. For over 40 years the school has dedicated itself to nourishing the souls, minds and bodies of its pupils. In 2022, the school decided to renew its main...
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all photos courtesy Eizan Electric Railway Along Kyoto’s Eizan Electric Railway is a section known as “Maple Tree Tunnel” (momiji tunnel, in Japanese) that is lined with hundreds of maple trees. They are, of course, beautiful any time of year. But maple trees are particularly...
Londonist
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diamond geezer
National Rail interchange symbols What does the National Rail symbol on the tube map mean? I ask because several stations with a...
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What does the National Rail symbol on the tube map mean? I ask because several stations with a National Rail service don't have the symbol, for example here in the northwest corner of the map. The two symbol-less Metropolitan line stations are Rickmansworth and Chorleywood....
diamond geezer
We're drinking less tea Yesterday the BBC website had a story about the amount of tea people aren't drinking any more. do...
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Yesterday the BBC website had a story about the amount of tea people aren't drinking any more. do drink tea it's often green tea, herbal tea or bubble tea, not traditional black tea. 18 year-old Sharma, for example, said she prefers herbal tea and hasn't even heard of Typhoo...
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Undercover’s Jun Takahashi Lights up Paris Fashion Week with Glowing Terrarium Dresses images courtesy Undercover Flora and fauna were abound as designer Jun Takahashi’s fertile...
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images courtesy Undercover Flora and fauna were abound as designer Jun Takahashi’s fertile creativity was unleashed during Paris Fashion Week 2023. The designer’s iconic brand Undercover, equally revered as a cult name in streetwear and as a fixture on Paris’ haute couture...
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photos by Osamu Nakamura In Niigata prefecture’s Murono Village, a surreal scene has unfolded…or should I say, inflated? From the rear of an abandoned townhouse a colossal, semi-transparent bubble has emerged, immediately transforming the quiet village into what could easily be...
Londonist
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diamond geezer
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London's next dead bus 549: Loughton to South Woodford Location: outer London/Essex Length of journey: 5 miles, 30 minutes 549, which dies tomorrow, is one of London's weirder bus routes. It was transferred to TfL control from Essex in 2003, hence the unusual opening digit. It...
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diamond geezer
The Hayes diagram TfL are proposing a small change to bus route 350 in Hayes, diverting it to terminate alongside new...
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TfL are proposing a small change to bus route 350 in Hayes, diverting it to terminate alongside new flats on Nestles Avenue rather than outside Asda. It's not a particularly controversial consultation, nor indeed terribly interesting unless you live very locally. this map titled...
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31 unblogged things I did in May Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican is dark and almost empty apart from 20 scant full-frontal paintings. I completely missed the subtext ("The exhibition highlights how The Curve’s shape reflects the Arabic letter...
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Bus Route Of The Day 187: West Hampstead to Park Royal Quadrant: London northwest Length of journey: 8 miles, 60 minutes Because it's 18th July I've been out riding the 187, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. It's no big hitter. twiddling round backstreets in an...
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I had a nice 2025-related post lined up for you today, but I have issues. lot of twiddling. lightning port. Yes, I've tried cleaning it but to no effect. online advice. There are potential getarounds to get the photos off the phone. comments if(postComments['91681514525519'] !=...
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This is the town of Purley. three OS Landranger maps. Landranger maps, each drawn to a scale of 1:50000, and between them they cover the whole of Great Britain and its islands. maps tend to align precisely with their neighbours so places appear on one or the other. But...
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Trains Intersect with Everyday Life in Nostalgic Illustrations by Shinjiro Ogawa Trains are an integral part of daily life in Japan, supporting commutes, errands and all other forms...
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Trains are an integral part of daily life in Japan, supporting commutes, errands and all other forms of daily life. And while their existence can be taken for granted, their many forms and colors add to the uniqueness of each neighborhood they traverse. Capturing the scenery of...
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Canteenlessness I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of...
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I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of businessfolk buying lunch. They were flocking to nearby shops, mainly specialist food outlets, for a calorific haul to tide them over into the afternoon. You could tell it was peak...
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Life Under Lockdown in Uganda Hey folks. Several of you have been asking how things are going for us over here in Uganda,...
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Hey folks. Several of you have been asking how things are going for us over here in Uganda, considering how disruptive the Covid-19 stuff has been worldwide. Well, since my previous blog post (on March 24th) Uganda has basically gone under a virtual lockdown. I took these two...
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The 'Inside The Circle Line' Tube Challenge Let's celebrate the cancellation of today's tube strike by tackling a really pointless...
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Let's celebrate the cancellation of today's tube strike by tackling a really pointless challenge. The 'Inside The Circle Line' Tube Challenge No station can be visited more than once. So, for example, you might ride one stop from Queensway to Lancaster Gate, then get out...
diamond geezer
Unblogged 1984 30 unblogged things I did in September 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago,...
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30 unblogged things I did in September 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago, indeed my Sinclair ZX81 wasn't capable of much, but here are 30 things I didn't digitally publish at the time. To help you get your bearings I was 19 and most of this is the end...
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21 gun salute It struck me I'd never seen a 21 gun salute, and what better occasion than this blog's 21st...
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It struck me I'd never seen a 21 gun salute, and what better occasion than this blog's 21st birthday? So I headed to the Tower of London to watch the Honourable Artillery Company bang their big guns, officially to celebrate the first anniversary of the succession of the...
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Euros final liveblog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸 19:00 Only an hour to go. 19:10 I'm having steak and ale pie. 20:00 Kick-off. The score is nil nil. 20:48 Off for oranges at half time. 21:05 Back. 21:06 Goal 😢 21:32 Goal 😀 21:46 Goal 😢 21:54 ENGLAND HAVE COME SECOND! 21:55 I'm sure...
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Fender, the iconic guitar brand, has opened its first-ever flagship store in Harajuku, Tokyo, riding on the wave of soaring demand of Guitars during the COVID-19 pandemic. Related posts: House Tour: Yoyogi Artist Studio (with a hidden bed) #thatPOWER | Will.i.am’s new music...
The Forney Flyer
Rain Rain Go Away... This past year has been by far the wettest year since we've been in Uganda. Last year we had a very...
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This past year has been by far the wettest year since we've been in Uganda. Last year we had a very short dry season, and then the rains came again with extra vengeance. The second, shorter, dry season that is supposed to come about half way through the year--well it basically...
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Intricate and Organic Sculptures by Ceramicist Eriko Inazaki These white and intricate forms appear to be the work of mother nature, sculpted over hundreds and...
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These white and intricate forms appear to be the work of mother nature, sculpted over hundreds and thousands of years. Instead, they’re the work of Japanese ceramicist Eriko Inazaki, who painstakingly shapes and assembles each prick and piece by hand. And in doing so, she’s...
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Five Things To Look Forward to at the 2025 World Expo Japan Pavilion The 2025 World Expo in Osaka, slated to take place in Osaka, is just 6 months away. Taking place...
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The 2025 World Expo in Osaka, slated to take place in Osaka, is just 6 months away. Taking place from April 13 to October 13, 2025, the expo aims to be a participatory, experiential, solutions-oriented exposition, offering the world an opportunity to come together in one place to...
diamond geezer
Majority Sweepstake On polling day, let's have a sweepstake on the size of the Labour majority. comments...
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On polling day, let's have a sweepstake on the size of the Labour majority. comments if(postComments['51253209151424'] != null){document.write(' (' + postComments['51253209151424'] + ')')}else{document.write(' (0)')}; n.b. If you don't think Labour are going to get a majority, go...
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Trivia About Other Places Called London Around The World Including one which is FREAKISHLY similar to our own London.
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Twenty Two Artists Created Over 120 Artworks Throughout the Tokyo Offices of GREE When Japanese internet media company GREE relocated offices last year, they wanted to do something...
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a year ago
When Japanese internet media company GREE relocated offices last year, they wanted to do something special; something that would capture the unique creativity and artistic drive behind many of their employees. So the company worked with art agency TokyoDex and the architecural...
Londonist
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diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in September 2024 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2024 1) The average e-scooter hire trip...
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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2024 1) The average e-scooter hire trip lasts 16 minutes, is 1½ miles long and is undertaken at 6½ mph. 2) TfL plan to replace the Lodge Avenue flyover on the A13 with a like-for-like replacement, with construction starting...
Londonist
Superloop Gets A Bit Loopier With SL5 Bromley To Croydon Bus New fast service for south London.
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Two 24-Hour Tube Strikes Planned For April And May 2024 Aslef members say they're 'working harder and longer for less'.
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The Ballot Box Pub of the Day: the Ballot Box UB6 7QL Ballot Box, it's on Horsenden Lane between Perivale and...
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Pub of the Day: the Ballot Box UB6 7QL Ballot Box, it's on Horsenden Lane between Perivale and North Greenford. Nothing big drives this way thanks to a width restriction at the old bridge over the Grand Union, but the Capital Ring passes by just after its detour up Horsenden...
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Preparing rail fares for contactless The cost of travelling by train between London and Southend is changing. In today's post I'm going...
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a year ago
The cost of travelling by train between London and Southend is changing. In today's post I'm going to focus on fares between Southend Central and Fenchurch Street to keep things simple but similar changes apply to other journeys. Also this kind of model is rolling out on other...
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Summer in Japan is not summer in Japan without festivals and watermelon. So if you’re looking to refresh your wardrobe with some playful pieces that celebrate the season, as well as festival-appropriate outfits, look no further than the watermelon kimono – a juicy take on a...
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Energy shock It's 2 years today since... a) all Covid-related legal restrictions were withdrawn b) Russian...
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It's 2 years today since... a) all Covid-related legal restrictions were withdrawn b) Russian invaded Ukraine It's also two years since the start of the energy shock that hoicked our gas and electricity bills to unheard-of levels. On the day of the invasion the annual energy...
diamond geezer
All lines challenge "How can you travel just one stop on every tube line?" is an interesting question. 2003 as part of...
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a year ago
"How can you travel just one stop on every tube line?" is an interesting question. 2003 as part of this blog's very first Tube Week, and again in 2015 when I went out and rode the solution. It's a question which can be varied according to how you choose to define a tube line,...
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Why did they say that? This post is about announcements I’ve heard on TfL services recently. The announcements split into...
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10 months ago
This post is about announcements I’ve heard on TfL services recently. The announcements split into two groups. a) Why did they say that? b) Why did they say that now? Why did they say that? "Customers using the escalators are advised to carry pets at all times" [Whitechapel...
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Londonist Speaks To Aunty Donna About Mayors, Theft... And The Word 'Piccadilly' Comic Aussie surrealists are in town.
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The Wombles April 1974 wasn't all about ABBA, it was also about the Wombles. Top 5 singles, week ending 27...
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April 1974 wasn't all about ABBA, it was also about the Wombles. Top 5 singles, week ending 27 April 1974 1) Seasons In The Sun (Terry Jacks) 2) Waterloo (Abba) 3) The Cat Crept In (Mud) 4) Remember You're A Womble (Wombles) 5) Angel Face (Glitter Band) As a nine year-old I was...
diamond geezer
Sharpenhoe Clappers Over the weekend I went to Sharpenhoe Clappers. The Canine Activity paragraph memorial stone at...
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9 months ago
Over the weekend I went to Sharpenhoe Clappers. The Canine Activity paragraph memorial stone at Sharpenhoe Clappers because just before I reached it I encountered a group of young people with two dogs. I wasn't at all pleased when the bull terrier looked up and started running...
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My 2015 interview with MC Jin In 2002, Jin Auyeung took over hip-hop by winning a weekly freestyle competition for seven...
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In 2002, Jin Auyeung took over hip-hop by winning a weekly freestyle competition for seven consecutive weeks on 106 & Park. His debut song, “Learn Chinese,” was on regular rotation in my elementary school, and my friends would holler out the Cantonese ad-libs. It was a moment...
diamond geezer
Rugby Gadabout: RUGBY Rugby is the easternmost town in Warwickshire, not far from Coventry, and the site...
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Gadabout: RUGBY Rugby is the easternmost town in Warwickshire, not far from Coventry, and the site of an important railway junction. It's big in cement, was big in electronics and has been a market town since medieval times. But it's best known worldwide for its school and the...
Londonist
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diamond geezer
Farewell Evening Standard The Evening Standard, first published in 1827, went to press for the last time on...
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3 months ago
The Evening Standard, first published in 1827, went to press for the last time on Thursday. <insert anecdotes here, including how it used to have competition, and how it used to be good, and how it used to cost money but you'd still buy it, and how it was never the same after...
diamond geezer
Leap day Leap day - 29 leap facts for February 29th 1) Leap years occur quadrennially, that's every four...
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Leap day - 29 leap facts for February 29th 1) Leap years occur quadrennially, that's every four years. They're required because a solar year is almost exactly 365¼ days long, and over a four year period those four quarter-days add up to make one whole extra day. 2) Today is the...
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diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #4 Four months of major roadworks were supposed to begin at the Bow Roundabout on Monday. So how's that...
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3 months ago
Four months of major roadworks were supposed to begin at the Bow Roundabout on Monday. So how's that going? Monday 30th September Tuesday 1st October I popped up to Old Ford to see what's happened with route 8 terminating one stop early. A temporary stand has been created...
diamond geezer
Open House (3) Yesterday's Open House tally was seven. • The repurposed building indelibly associated with a star...
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a year ago
Yesterday's Open House tally was seven. • The repurposed building indelibly associated with a star architect where everyone had to wear a name badge in case the over-excitable staff wanted to make conversation, but there was in fact hardly anything to see and I was out of there...
diamond geezer
East Anglia Pylons More News From Norfolk 110 mile line of pylons all the way from Norwich to the Thames. It's needed...
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5 months ago
More News From Norfolk 110 mile line of pylons all the way from Norwich to the Thames. It's needed to help connect an increasing number of wind farms in the North Sea to population centres in London and the southeast, because it's no good having all that cheap energy if you...
diamond geezer
The most/least popular journeys between tube stations What's the most popular journey between tube stations? an FOI request published yesterday. The...
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6 months ago
What's the most popular journey between tube stations? an FOI request published yesterday. The data is a) for journeys in the calendar year 2023 We have had similar spreadsheets before, but this is the first The most popular journey is from Liverpool Street to Tottenham...
diamond geezer
Waverley This is Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddle steamer. She's currently on a two week foray...
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3 months ago
This is Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddle steamer. She's currently on a two week foray up and down the Thames Estuary and adjacent coasts. And if you'd been in Gravesend on Sunday evening you could have enjoyed a two-hour voyage up the estuary to Tower Bridge for just...
Londonist
The Natural History Museum Is Throwing Another Epic New Year's Eve Bash It's going to be WILD.
a year ago
Londonist
Named: The First Person To Witness The Great Fire Of London New Museum of London research reveals who first discovered the blaze.
a year ago