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Rail renationalisation lists Rail renationalisation lists The key minute 1:59am: South Western Railway is a privately-owned...
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Rail renationalisation lists The key minute 1:59am: South Western Railway is a privately-owned company 2:00am: South Western Railway is a government-owned company Already-nationalised rail services 2018: London North Eastern Railway (formerly Virgin Trains East Coast)...
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Whole Beast, Blackhorse Road and The Friendly, San Diego Earlier this month I was lucky enough to eat probably the best burger I've ever had in my life. It...
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Earlier this month I was lucky enough to eat probably the best burger I've ever had in my life. It was a smash burger, cooked quickly on a flat-top to a good crust, placed inside a toasted sweet bun and dressed with little more than deli cheese. And before I get accused of being...
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7 Floor Malaysia Tea Room, Holborn In a world of sprawling Mercato Metropolitanos, Market Halls and Arcade Food Halls, the miniscule...
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In a world of sprawling Mercato Metropolitanos, Market Halls and Arcade Food Halls, the miniscule Holborn Food Hub is a reminder that food courts come in all shapes and sizes. I'm sure they had very good reasons for filling a space the size of a mobile phone repair shop with...
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VE Day - 80 years of peace VE Day 1945-2025: eighty years of peace 1946 Greece civil...
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VE Day 1945-2025: eighty years of peace 1946 Greece civil war 1600001947 India independence 8000001948 Madagascar independence 150001949 China civil war 10000001950 Korea Korean War 3000000 1951 Malaysia civil...
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Why Disney Is the Best Alaska Cruise for Families
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You meet ten people… Two will like you. There is potential to become best friends. Seven will feel indifferent towards...
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Two will like you. There is potential to become best friends. Seven will feel indifferent towards you. You will become acquaintances at best. One will dislike you. At best, you will both treat each other with civility. You can’t please everyone. Sometimes—perhaps many times—in...
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This Wrapping Paper Turns All Your Presents into Bread At first glance, these wrapped objects see like freshly bakes loaves straight from the bakery. With...
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At first glance, these wrapped objects see like freshly bakes loaves straight from the bakery. With toasty brown hues, signature flour dusting, and even hand-scored patterns mimicking artisanal baguettes, this genius wrapping paper turns all your gifts into bread. Conceived by...
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7 Must-Visit Lakes and Rivers in Appalachia
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Participate, even if you’re not prepared In an ideal world, you’d be prepared for everything you want to participate in. That’s not realistic...
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In an ideal world, you’d be prepared for everything you want to participate in. That’s not realistic though. New opportunities pop up all the time. It can feel tempting to want more time to prepare for all of it. What tends to happen is you don’t have energy to, or you’re not...
Herbert Lui
Optimism vs. delusion Making the choice to be optimistic is always worth it, especially when it’s the more difficult...
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Making the choice to be optimistic is always worth it, especially when it’s the more difficult decision to make. As Bob Iger, who leads Disney, puts it, optimism is the ability to focus on what matters—steering your team towards the best possible outcome, and moving forward in...
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Define your work What do you do? Who do you do it for? Why? Answering these questions, and others like them, is hard...
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What do you do? Who do you do it for? Why? Answering these questions, and others like them, is hard work. It can also feel painful, because you commit to being labelled. Even though you contain multitudes, you’re making a decision: you will be known for one thing, for now and in...
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Tate Modern 25 Today is the 25th anniversary of Tate Modern being opened by the Queen on 11th May 2000. I might...
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Today is the 25th anniversary of Tate Modern being opened by the Queen on 11th May 2000. I might have written a full-on 25th anniversary post, but my nephew got married yesterday and quite frankly I had better things to do last night. Hopefully it was all brilliant,...
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The Best Places to Eat in Detroit, per Chef Javier Bardauil
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Tramlink 25 Today is the 25th anniversary of the Croydon trams, which first entered operation on 10th May...
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Croydon trams, which first entered operation on 10th May 2000. 10 May 2000: route 3 from Croydon to New Addington 23 May 2000: route 2 from Croydon to Beckenham Junction 30 May 2000: route 1 from Elmers End to Wimbledon I was going to...
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205 to Marble Arch TfL are chopping and changing two more buses in central London, specifically the 30 and 205,...
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TfL are chopping and changing two more buses in central London, specifically the 30 and 205, according to the results of a consultation released on Friday. This is despite their proposals receiving the support of less than 5% of respondents and widespread disapproval from all 22...
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A wedding is a long time in the making A wedding is a long time in the making. A decade in the making, all the way back to the winter of...
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A wedding is a long time in the making. A decade in the making, all the way back to the winter of 2015 when the bride and groom first met. Their academic studies had taken them to the same corner of the country but not to the same city, in one case a last minute decision when...
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Jurassic Coast 1 Jurassic Coast (part 1) The Jurassic Coast is the umbrella name for the shoreline between Exmouth...
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Jurassic Coast (part 1) The Jurassic Coast is the umbrella name for the shoreline between Exmouth and Swanage, renowned for undulating hills, pebble beaches and crumbling cliffs. It's partly in Devon but mostly in Dorset, and famed for its fossils as the wave-lapped rocks...
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Catch-up While I've been preoccupied on the south coast, London has continued unabated. Monday 5th May Red...
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While I've been preoccupied on the south coast, London has continued unabated. Monday 5th May Red Arrows didn't arrive until 2pm. Tuesday 6th May ceramic poppies are back at the Tower of London to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day. However this time there are only...
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6 Must-Visit Sonoma County Restaurants for Wine Pairings
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Charles Holden 150 Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Holden, tube station builder extraordinaire,...
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Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Holden, tube station builder extraordinaire, on 12th May 1875. I might have written a full-on 150th birthday post, but I'm still in Dorset following my nephew's wedding and Charles didn't build anything round here. As far...
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Jurassic Coast 3 Jurassic Coast (part 3) Hive Beach (50.70°N, 2.72°W) Hive Beach just down the coast is much...
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Jurassic Coast (part 3) Hive Beach (50.70°N, 2.72°W) Hive Beach just down the coast is much quieter. It's accessed down the beach road from Burton Bradstock, another picture postcard Dorset village, where a National Trust car park nestles in the sandy gap between two sets of...
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Jurassic Coast 2 Jurassic Coast (part 2) Colmer's Hill (50.74°N, 2.79°W) Colmer's Hill. Stand in the town's main...
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Jurassic Coast (part 2) Colmer's Hill (50.74°N, 2.79°W) Colmer's Hill. Stand in the town's main street and its summit is perfectly framed on the near horizon, a silhouette so simplistic it's what a child would draw. Get closer and it looks even better. The hill is an uplift...
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Roding Valley If you want to use the least used tube station, from today you're semi-buggered. You probably...
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If you want to use the least used tube station, from today you're semi-buggered. You probably don't, it is the least used tube station after all, but the Londoners who live nearby are being inconvenienced even more than normal. RODING VALLEY STATION: From Tuesday 6 May until...
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The longest journey in a single zone The longest possible journey in a single zone  z1 29 stationsEdgware Road to...
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The longest possible journey in a single zone  z1 29 stationsEdgware Road to PaddingtonCircle£2.80 z223 stationsStratford to Clapham JunctionMildmay£2.00 z315 stationsStratford International to BecktonDLR£2.00 z412 stationsLeytonstone to Woodford†Central£2.00 z55 stationsWaddon...
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Local news I've battled the pop-ups to bring you this list of important stories from local news websites,...
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I've battled the pop-ups to bring you this list of important stories from local news websites, county by county. Bedfordshire: "Idiotic" driver crashes after showing off during car meet Berkshire: Independent pasta restaurant changes its name after one year Bristol: 'Bonkers'...
Herbert Lui
Customer satisfaction builds momentum A business delivers a good product or service to a customer. A satisfied customer tells other people...
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A business delivers a good product or service to a customer. A satisfied customer tells other people about the business. Those people find the business and become customers. As the years go by, the business builds enough of a reputation and customer base to sustain itself. If we...
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On holiday I don't know if you've noticed but I'm on holiday this week. I don't normally go away on holiday so...
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I don't know if you've noticed but I'm on holiday this week. I don't normally go away on holiday so you might have got used to me always being around. But I'm not around at the moment, I am very much away from home, so what you've been reading recently are a number of posts I...
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The bluebell scale The bluebell photo scale 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Score not awarded.
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All the Overgrounds How long would it take to ride all the Overground lines? I gave it a go, and I started in the...
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How long would it take to ride all the Overground lines? I gave it a go, and I started in the obvious place. Intermission two members of staff on duty, one sweeping the platforms and the other holed up in his kiosk in case any situation transpired that required his...
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The Best 6 Festivals in the British Virgin Islands
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Seething Wells This would be a good street for an opticians.
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Herbert Lui
Style = best traits + taste + flair In her book Executive Style, Judith Price covers a lot of really cool offices from the 1970s—think...
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In her book Executive Style, Judith Price covers a lot of really cool offices from the 1970s—think Diane Von Furstenberg, Estée Lauder, Malcolm Forbes. What won me over was this paragraph in her introduction: Style isn’t something you’re born with or something you acquire when...
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Enjoy an Intimate Cruise for Seamless Peak Seasonal Travel
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Emerson Park redux On Monday I spotted that the Liberty line signage at Emerson Park had never been unpeeled. blogged...
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On Monday I spotted that the Liberty line signage at Emerson Park had never been unpeeled. blogged about it. Result, thanks.
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Why the BVI Is Perfect for Outdoor Adventures
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Square days Today is 5.5.25, a square day. It's also the second time a square day has been a bank...
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Today is 5.5.25, a square day. It's also the second time a square day has been a bank holiday. 1.1.01 (Monday) century ending with a double-zero year. The reason for this is that there was no year 0, the first century starting in AD 1 and running until AD 100. Thus every...
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Dorset and Devonshire Sorry, couldn't resist. 45 45 Squared 17) DORSET SQUARE, NW1 Borough of Westminster,...
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Sorry, couldn't resist. 45 45 Squared 17) DORSET SQUARE, NW1 Borough of Westminster, 100m×60m Dorset Square is the greenspace you pass if you walk the backroads between Marylebone and Baker Street stations. It's rectangular, Georgian, semi-private and generally unsung, yet...
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London's three fare scales Ever since contactless travel became the norm, people have got used to swanning round London without...
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Ever since contactless travel became the norm, people have got used to swanning round London without knowing what their journey costs. Swipe, travel, swipe, and somewhere around four the next morning your bank balance is adjusted by the requisite total. The capital's fare system...
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Time Out are liars - official Time Out are liars - official blogpost highlighting Time Out's tendency to lift research from...
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Time Out are liars - official blogpost highlighting Time Out's tendency to lift research from dubious sources and then claim the information is 'official'. They did it again yesterday in a piece called "It’s official: 6 of the UK’s dirtiest beaches for water quality are near...
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33 facts you never knew about London's boroughs 33 facts you never knew about London's boroughs Barking and Dagenham: Barking and Dagenham has the...
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33 facts you never knew about London's boroughs Barking and Dagenham: Barking and Dagenham has the highest proportion of overweight 11 year-olds in London [data] Barnet: Barnet has 60 miles of 'A' Roads, more than any other London borough [data] Bexley: 1.6% of Bexley residents...
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Untold I went out yesterday morning, inspired by something I'd read, and visited somewhere on the other...
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I went out yesterday morning, inspired by something I'd read, and visited somewhere on the other side of London. When I got there I had a quick look round and took some photos. And I haven't told anyone else about it. One thing about living by yourself is that there's nobody...
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The Parakeet, Kentish Town I'm going to start this post about the Parakeet, with - unfortunately (for them, and possibly for...
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I'm going to start this post about the Parakeet, with - unfortunately (for them, and possibly for you) - a bit of a rant. Why is it that no matter how much money has been lavished on a place, no matter how starry the chefs, how extensive the wine list, how exclusive the whisky...
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8 Ways to Enjoy the Great Outdoors in Telluride
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The Best BVI Hotels for Couples, Families, and Groups
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Bonesgate Stream THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Bonesgate Stream Malden Rushett → Chessington → Tolworth (4...
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THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Bonesgate Stream Malden Rushett → Chessington → Tolworth (4 miles) Bonesgate Stream is the river which drains this elongated extrusion, from a field in sight of Chessington World of Adventures to a rewilded channel on the Watersedge Estate. Most of it...
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Unhidden London UNHIDDEN LONDON - Knightsbridge Step into secret parts of the underground network! An exclusive...
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UNHIDDEN LONDON - Knightsbridge Step into secret parts of the underground network! An exclusive behind the scenes tour exploring time-capsule corridors unseen by the travelling public for decades. For many years the London Transport Museum has run guided tours of secret...
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St Andrew's/Jubilee Square 45 45 Squared 15) ST ANDREW'S SQUARE, KT6 Borough of Kingston, 100m×60m Surbiton, the quintessential...
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45 45 Squared 15) ST ANDREW'S SQUARE, KT6 Borough of Kingston, 100m×60m Surbiton, the quintessential Surrey suburb, although it's no longer in Surrey and the etymology of 'suburb' and 'Surbiton' are entirely separate. As is so often the case the town owes its existence to the...
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IKEA Oxford Circus Central London now has an IKEA, right beside Oxford Circus where Top Shop used to be. It opened on...
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Central London now has an IKEA, right beside Oxford Circus where Top Shop used to be. It opened on Thursday, a balloon-infested occasion attended by the Mayor because he's very keen to see Oxford Street full of successful businesses again. It brings the number of IKEA stores in...
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The Knave of Clubs, Shoreditch I wouldn't normally feel comfortable sticking a score on a place after sampling just 2 dishes from a...
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I wouldn't normally feel comfortable sticking a score on a place after sampling just 2 dishes from a menu, but I will make an exception for the Knave of Clubs for two reasons. Firstly, they have put the rotisserie "centre stage" at one end of the large dining room and that is...
Herbert Lui
Getting rich One path to getting rich looks more like saving money. While your friends buy the fancier options,...
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One path to getting rich looks more like saving money. While your friends buy the fancier options, you don’t. You’re not broke, you’re living within your means and taking steps toward richness. Maybe you used to borrow from the future, and now you’ve given that inclination up....
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London Football Update London Football Update Premier League 2024-25 2nd Arsenal 4th Chelsea 10th Brentford 11th...
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London Football Update Premier League 2024-25 2nd Arsenal 4th Chelsea 10th Brentford 11th Fulham 12th Crystal Palace 14th West Ham United 17th Tottenham Hotspur Chelsea had an excellent year, ending the season two places higher than last year and qualifying for Europe and...
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Leeds Castle A Grand Day Out: LEEDS CASTLE Location: nr Maidstone, Kent, ME17 [map] Open: 10am-6pm Admission:...
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A Grand Day Out: LEEDS CASTLE Location: nr Maidstone, Kent, ME17 [map] Open: 10am-6pm Admission: £36.50 (£33 online) House open: 10.30am-5pm Website: leeds-castle.com Four word summary: moated glory amid parkland Time to allow: all day Kent, not Yorkshire, about five miles east...
Herbert Lui
Practicing Most days, I write and I don’t think about it much. Some days, I write and it doesn’t come out as...
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Most days, I write and I don’t think about it much. Some days, I write and it doesn’t come out as nice as I’d like for it to. I publish it anyway, though I wonder if I hit a plateau. It makes me reconsider this whole practice. Maybe this isn’t helping me write better. Maybe...
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Switch on to Capitalcard Back in January I spotted an original 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station. "I hope someone...
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Back in January I spotted an original 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station. "I hope someone preserves it," I wrote, and what do you know they have! It now has a secure glass frame across the front and also one of the London Transport Museum's blue heritage posters...
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Chocolate Digestives Experience The chocolate digestive biscuit, as manufactured aromatically in Harlesden, is 100 years old this...
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The chocolate digestive biscuit, as manufactured aromatically in Harlesden, is 100 years old this year. And to celebrate the centenary McVitie's have opened a pop-up experience in Piccadilly Circus inside a former Barclays bank for one long weekend only. I am not making this...
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The Best Beachfront Suites in the Caribbean
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Marwood Square 45 45 Squared 19) MARWOOD SQUARE, N10 Borough of Haringey, 120m×90m just north of Highgate Wood in...
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45 45 Squared 19) MARWOOD SQUARE, N10 Borough of Haringey, 120m×90m just north of Highgate Wood in the hinterland between Finchley and Muswell Hill, sometimes known as Fortis Green. It's relatively new with old bits, and occupies the final site of a former hospital that started...
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Explore Minnesota's Best LGBTQ+ Spots and Music Venues
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London's Natural Landscape Hierarchy London's Natural Landscape Hierarchy National Parks National Nature Reserves Richmond Park: Charles...
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London's Natural Landscape Hierarchy National Parks National Nature Reserves Richmond Park: Charles I's royal hunting park, an enormous roamable oasis of ancient woods and wide-open grasslands, perhaps best known for its historic herds of deer but also home to a multitude of...
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TfL FoI requests in May 2025 25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in May 2025 1) Last year 712 trips and falls were...
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25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in May 2025 1) Last year 712 trips and falls were reported on the stairs of buses in London, of which 52% led to a minor injury and 3% led to a serious injury. 2) The paint codes used to coat the exterior of tube rolling stock are RAL...
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Great West Road 100 One of west London's most important roads is 100 years old today, the Brentford By-Pass or as it's...
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One of west London's most important roads is 100 years old today, the Brentford By-Pass or as it's better known the Great West Road. Hounslow council are making a big thing of it. The new dual carriageway swept through fields and parkland to the north of Brentford and...
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Unblogged May 31 unblogged things I did in May Thu 1: After seeing the bluebells BestMate drove us on to Maldon....
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31 unblogged things I did in May Thu 1: After seeing the bluebells BestMate drove us on to Maldon. We watched the tide coming in, visibly, admired the sailing boats and stood by the squidgy creek at the point where the annual Mud Race would be taking place at the weekend. It...
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Broadband update Abbreviated version: Hurrah, my broadband finally started working again yesterday afternoon. I had eleven days without. What happened: A couple of Saturdays ago a fibre optic cabre somewhere in Mile End failed. Before dawn on Monday Openreach sent an engineer...
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The jellyfish knows how to survive uncertain times A lion’s mane jellyfish can release up to 45,000 eggs per day. The jellyfish’s strategy is to lay as...
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A lion’s mane jellyfish can release up to 45,000 eggs per day. The jellyfish’s strategy is to lay as many eggs as possible and leave them to fend for themselves. Most of these eggs don’t survive, probably fewer than 0.1%. In ecology, this approach is known as a high reproduction...
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