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Snail mail Yesterday Ofcom agreed to Royal Mail's request to deliver 2nd class mail slower and on fewer days....
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Yesterday Ofcom agreed to Royal Mail's request to deliver 2nd class mail slower and on fewer days. Great, said Royal Mail, we'll start doing just that from 28th July. You'll either have to post your letters and cards earlier or shrug and put up with it. a) Saturdays will be...
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c2c Senior Rover Often the best value travel comes from a rover ticket, and this is an absolute bargain. Senior...
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Often the best value travel comes from a rover ticket, and this is an absolute bargain. Senior Rover allows unlimited train travel on the c2c network beyond London, i.e. all the stations on this map, for the measly sum of £7. It can only be used after 9.30am on weekdays, not at...
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52 of the Best Places to Visit in the U.S.
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Spoon & Tamago
Haneno Suzuki Brings Playful Lines to Shibuya Tokyo-based artist Haneno Suzuki has a way of turning something everyday as paper into something...
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Tokyo-based artist Haneno Suzuki has a way of turning something everyday as paper into something completely unexpected in her solo exhibition “Playful Lines“, currently on view at (Place) by Method in Shibuya. Running from July 4th to 19th, 2025, the show invites visitors to...
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Why Spring and Fall Are the Best Seasons for a Yosemite Trip
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Spoon & Tamago
In a New Pop-Up Exhibition, Erica Ward Presents Tokyo as a Living, Breathing Organism all images courtesy the artist | used with permission Erica Ward is a California-born ink and...
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all images courtesy the artist | used with permission Erica Ward is a California-born ink and watercolor artist who has called Tokyo her home for over 10 years. Inspired by Japanese designs and imagery, as well as the ever-changing landscape of Tokyo, Ward reinterprets everyday...
diamond geezer
Rebranding the Waterloo & City The opportunity has arisen to spaff your brand across the Waterloo & City line. Bring your dosh,...
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The opportunity has arisen to spaff your brand across the Waterloo & City line. Bring your dosh, share your collateral, own the journey. To be clear you don't get to rename the line. TfL's commercial mavens would love to do that, prostituting their most iconic assets to...
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7 Events + Festivals Near Yosemite National Park to Attend
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diamond geezer
Springfield Park Earlier this week the Mayor opened London's largest new park since the 2012 Olympics. It's...
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Earlier this week the Mayor opened London's largest new park since the 2012 Olympics. It's Springfield Park in Tooting, and given Sadiq went to school less than half a mile away he was surely* well chuffed. Springfield Park covers 32 acres around the rim of a new health...
Spoon & Tamago
Joe Hisaishi’s ‘Summer’ Reimagined as a Short Film Originally composed as the main theme for Takeshi Kitano’s 1999 film Kikujiro, Joe Hisaishi’s...
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Originally composed as the main theme for Takeshi Kitano’s 1999 film Kikujiro, Joe Hisaishi’s timeless piece “Summer” has long been cherished in Japan as the soundtrack of nostalgic summer memories. Now, this beloved masterpiece is reimagined as a short film. Set in a high school...
Cheese and Biscuits
Bo.Tic, Corçà You will probably be aware that Catalonia has well more than its fair share of influential...
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You will probably be aware that Catalonia has well more than its fair share of influential restaurants, a tradition that runs from El Bulli through Can Roca and Disfrutar and has fanned out in all kinds of interesting ways across all levels of the culinary scene, from the most...
Cheese and Biscuits
El Molí de l’Escala, L'Escala I have eaten at El Moli a number of times over the 40 or so years I and my family have been visiting...
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I have eaten at El Moli a number of times over the 40 or so years I and my family have been visiting this part of the world. The first couple of visits were pre-blog and pre-camera phone and I don't remember much about it other than being sat in those same ancient vaulted rooms...
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Motspur Park 100 As part of this year's Railway200 celebrations, special events and community get-togethers with a...
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As part of this year's Railway200 celebrations, special events and community get-togethers with a rail connection are taking place across the country. And yesterday a very special one took place at Motspur Park station because, coincidentally in this 200th anniversary year, it...
Spoon & Tamago
Flushing into the Future: Toto’s High-Tech Health Tracker Imagine sitting on your toilet and getting a personalized health report sent straight to your phone....
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Imagine sitting on your toilet and getting a personalized health report sent straight to your phone. No clinic visit, no awkward conversations. Just data, insight, and… well, your poop. This isn’t science fiction anymore. Toilets in Japan have long been known for their...
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The Square 45 45 Squared 24) THE SQUARE, TW9 Borough of Richmond, 60m come together beneath a zinc-scaled dome....
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45 45 Squared 24) THE SQUARE, TW9 Borough of Richmond, 60m come together beneath a zinc-scaled dome. One of the main streets is The Quadrant, one of the passageways is The Passage and stretching briefly to the east is The Square. This isn't square, just as The Quadrant isn't...
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The Swithinometer Yesterday was St Swithin's Day. n.b. It may not have rained for you but it rained where I was and...
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Yesterday was St Swithin's Day. n.b. It may not have rained for you but it rained where I was and that's what counts. I had to hide in a hedge near Heathrow to avoid getting drenched, and I thought ah well, rain every day until August 24th. disproved as rubbish, obviously,...
diamond geezer
Tables Back in 2003 I saw a table on Jonathan's blog and thought "ooh, I wonder how he did that". I checked...
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Back in 2003 I saw a table on Jonathan's blog and thought "ooh, I wonder how he did that". I checked the source code and tried to unpick it, also consulted my Teach Yourself HTML4 book, and so sussed out how tables worked. And since then tables have been a regular feature on this...
diamond geezer
I remember I remember film for cameras. You couldn't just wander around with a smartphone snapping willynilly,...
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I remember film for cameras. You couldn't just wander around with a smartphone snapping willynilly, you needed special film like Colourprint II designed for instant loading cameras. You bought a box of film from the shop, in this case Boots, and had to manoeuvre the cartridge...
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Market Square 45 45 Squared 25) MARKET SQUARE, N9 Borough of Enfield, 70m×50m Market Square in Edmonton. New not...
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45 45 Squared 25) MARKET SQUARE, N9 Borough of Enfield, 70m×50m Market Square in Edmonton. New not old, enclosed not open, basic not aspirational, blouses not yogawear, also you can't drive a vehicle into it which I think is a first in this year-long series. Come with me to the...
diamond geezer
Go Find Miracles TfL sometimes struggle to get the media to notice a good press launch, but I got lucky yesterday and...
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TfL sometimes struggle to get the media to notice a good press launch, but I got lucky yesterday and stumbled upon their latest project at Waterloo station while travelling home from riding a duff bus. I knew something was up when I noticed an art workshop at the top of the...
diamond geezer
45 Squared map 45 45 Squared (this because 2025 = 45², remember) ...
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45 45 Squared (this because 2025 = 45², remember) Harrow  BarnetEnfield MarketHaringey MarwoodW ForestRedbridge ShakespeareHavering Balgores Hillingdon The SquareEaling HallidayBrentCamden CentralIslington NorthamptonHackneyBark&Dag Osborne Hounslow FerryH'smith &FK&...
diamond geezer
The London Lens The London Lens In today's edition we investigate art, science, conspiracy and just what did the...
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The London Lens In today's edition we investigate art, science, conspiracy and just what did the councillors know? It looks important, heavily signposted in gleaming red letters from both Greenhill Way and Station Road. A chain of blue and green lights beckons through an...
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Hatton Cross 50 Another Saturday, another significant station birthday. This time it's a 50th birthday and it's on...
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Another Saturday, another significant station birthday. This time it's a 50th birthday and it's on the Underground, the anniversary station being Hatton Cross. brand new rolling stock was introduced on the Piccadilly line, freshly fitted out with additional luggage space. The...
diamond geezer
Route 700 Route 700: Colliers Wood to Phipps Bridge Estate Location: London southwest Length of bus journey:...
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Route 700: Colliers Wood to Phipps Bridge Estate Location: London southwest Length of bus journey: 1½ miles, 7 minutes new temporary bus route with a high number. The latest is the 700, a number chosen because it replaces part of route 200, a lowly twiddler in the borough of...
diamond geezer
Grove Park Nature Reserve For today's post I selected a six-figure grid reference somewhere in London, entirely at random, and...
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For today's post I selected a six-figure grid reference somewhere in London, entirely at random, and then visited the selected spot. That'll make a change from posting about railways, I thought. But I thought wrong. Random grid reference: TQ402727 Grove Park Nature Reserve...
diamond geezer
Thirties The third week of July has more 30°+ temperatures than any other week of the year. heatwave...
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The third week of July has more 30°+ temperatures than any other week of the year. heatwave update. Dates on which the temperature at Hampstead reached 30°C  JunJulAugSep 2010279/10   201127    2012 2518  2013 13  15/16/17...
diamond geezer
Random I wondered if there was any mileage in further 'Random' blog series. Random grid reference: ...
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I wondered if there was any mileage in further 'Random' blog series. Random grid reference: TQ269722 Springfield Park Wandsworth SW17 precise spot is a block of flats just over the wall, but I was in Springfield Park just last week and blogged all about it so there's no point...
Cheese and Biscuits
Luna, Shad Thames This is not going to be a long post. Not because Luna - a cosy little new wine bar from the people...
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This is not going to be a long post. Not because Luna - a cosy little new wine bar from the people behind Legare just over the road - isn't good, but rather because it really isn't going to take me long to describe why it's good. Because it's really not rocket science - take...
diamond geezer
Inspiration 200 Railways are 200 years old this year, and one of the highlights of the anniversary celebrations is...
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Railways are 200 years old this year, and one of the highlights of the anniversary celebrations is the Inspiration Train. pre-book but I chanced my luck at Waterloo station yesterday while the rest of the station was in total signalling meltdown, smiled sweetly and got...
Spoon & Tamago
Earth, Reimagined on the Shores of Ishigaki Sou Fujimoto’s newest project, Earth, is a vacation home that nearly disappears into the landscape...
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Sou Fujimoto’s newest project, Earth, is a vacation home that nearly disappears into the landscape of Ishigaki Island. Built for NOT A HOTEL, the circular villa is topped with a green roof and designed to feel like part of the land itself. From above, it reads more like a natural...
diamond geezer
Transport News July 2025 What's new this week in the world of London transport? Cutting the DLR timetable walk-through...
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What's new this week in the world of London transport? Cutting the DLR timetable walk-through train arrived for testing in January 2023 and should have entered public service in April 2024, yet somehow still hasn't. The latest official estimate for the first new train in public...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 21-27 July 2025 The best articles from the past week.
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diamond geezer
Three questions I was on the train between Norwood Junction and London Bridge and I said "this is quite a long way...
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I was on the train between Norwood Junction and London Bridge and I said "this is quite a long way isn't it?" "Longer than most," they said. "I wonder what the longest journey between stations in London is?" I said. "That sounds like the sort of thing you'd blog about," they...
diamond geezer
Cannon Brook THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Cannon Brook Northwood → Ruislip Common → Ruislip (2½ miles) upstream,...
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THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Cannon Brook Northwood → Ruislip Common → Ruislip (2½ miles) upstream, climbing from Ruislip's HS2 edgelands to Northwood's Iron Bridge. River Pinn just north of Ruislip Golf Course, which is currently sealed off having been conscripted for use as a...
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Bonnington Square 45 45 Squared 26) BONNINGTON SQUARE, SW8 Borough of Lambeth, 80m×40m terraced loop sandwiched midway...
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45 45 Squared 26) BONNINGTON SQUARE, SW8 Borough of Lambeth, 80m×40m terraced loop sandwiched midway between the station and the Oval Cricket Ground, tantalisingly close to both but impressively well screened. It has a similar neighbour called Vauxhall Grove which is both leafy...
diamond geezer
More transport news July 2025 What's else is new this week in the world of London transport? The Silvertown Tunnel is a success...
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What's else is new this week in the world of London transport? The Silvertown Tunnel is a success unless it isn't detailed data reports on how the Silvertown Tunnel's doing every three months and the first report is just out. Here are ten things I noticed. » Since the...
diamond geezer
All the royal cyphers The first pillar boxes were introduced in 1853, since when Britain has had seven monarchs. I wanted...
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The first pillar boxes were introduced in 1853, since when Britain has had seven monarchs. I wanted to track down one postbox from each reign, noting that two of these could prove quite tricky, so I did my research and headed off to Dartford in Kent to try to grab the full set. I...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 2-3 August 2025 A rooftop beach, a free street party and a new chippy with a twist.
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diamond geezer
Euros final liveblog Euros final liveblog  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸 09:00 The day of destiny is here! A nation dares to...
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Euros final liveblog  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸 09:00 The day of destiny is here! A nation dares to dream! 11:00 The Lionesses can rewrite history! 12:00 Mentality! Passion! Togetherness! 13:00 England expects a famous victory! 14:00 (Spain are also potential winners) 15:00 One final...
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Tate Modern To Open Late Every Friday And Saturday From September Stay up to three hours after normal closing time.
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diamond geezer
Horseguards to Buckingham Palace London's newest bus L10: Horseguards to Buckingham Palace Location: London central Length of bus...
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London's newest bus L10: Horseguards to Buckingham Palace Location: London central Length of bus journey: ½ mile, 14 minutes The route is relatively straightforward, running from a temporary bus stand at the northern end of Horse Guards Road to a terminus outside the front...
diamond geezer
Ofcom media trends report Ofcom's annual report on UK media trends was released yesterday, packed with fascinating insights...
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Ofcom's annual report on UK media trends was released yesterday, packed with fascinating insights about how we consume audio, video, news and all kinds of on-demand streaming. [94 page pdf] Over a typical month, (85%) than live TV (67%) (68%) than streamed music (62%) (53%)...
diamond geezer
A tribute to Tom Lehrer A tribute to Tom Lehrer (1928-2025)   🔊
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Londonist
Victorious Lionesses To Parade Through Central London On An Open Top Bus A chance to celebrate with your heroes.
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Twin Peaks Festival Comes To London This September It's the first since David Lynch's death.
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London Month Of The Dead 2025 - A Spine-Chilling Array Of Events Lots of things happening by candlelight 🕯️
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Ride On Vintage London Buses For Free This September All aboard the 54!
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NBA Basketball Returns To London In 2026 - As Memphis Grizzlies Take On Orlando Magic O2 to host regular-season clash.
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diamond geezer
London's dialling codes 020 is the dialling code for London. This is Wikipedia's map of the 020 dialling code area. It...
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020 is the dialling code for London. This is Wikipedia's map of the 020 dialling code area. It forms an approximate circle spreading 20 miles from the centre of London. But London is not circular. Places outside London with an 020 dialling code telephone exchanges outside...
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New Podcast Alert: TimeTable London London trivia geeks sit down over a pint, for a podcast.
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What Goes On Inside Duck Island Cottage In St James's Park? "It is the glamping version of office work."
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diamond geezer goes YouTube I'm pleased to announce that your daily diamond geezer blogpost is now available on YouTube. Here's...
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I'm pleased to announce that your daily diamond geezer blogpost is now available on YouTube. Here's yesterday's bus route post presented in video format. My thanks to Ryan, the AI voiceover bot, for doing the commentary. And wow, who realised a single 1200-word post could...
Londonist
Why You Should Go To... Hastings: Things To Do In The East Sussex Town According to someone who grew up there.
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What's The Average Rent In Each London Borough? The 2025 stats are in.
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Famous Simpsons In The Strand Restaurant To Reopen This Autumn Return of the beef trolleys.
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The Soaring Suffragist: Muriel Matters That time a flying suffragist tried to drop leaflets on the King.
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In Pictures: Lionesses Celebrate In Front Of Buckingham Palace Might as well make Sweet Caroline the national anthem now.
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When A 17-Metre-Long Whale Washed Up In Greenwich... But All Wasn't As It Seemed Spouting lies.
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A First Look At Lucy Sparrow's Fantastic New Felt Chippy In Mayfair A fish and chip made entirely from felt — and it's a delight!
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diamond geezer
Unblogged July 31 unblogged things I did in July Tue 1: Thanks for your 57 comments on Unblogged June, even if...
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31 unblogged things I did in July Tue 1: Thanks for your 57 comments on Unblogged June, even if they were predominantly about smoke alarms. I have now sorted the issue, thanks (and the replacement will itself need to be replaced in ten years' time). Wed 2: In surprising news, as...
Londonist
Mayor Of London Opposes Latest Heathrow Third Runway Plans Cites "severe impact it will have in terms of noise, air pollution."
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diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in July 2025 25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in July 2025 1) It's anticipated that buses on route SL7...
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25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in July 2025 1) It's anticipated that buses on route SL7 will eventually be replaced by electric double deck vehicles with single doors and 2m of luggage space. Current vehicles have either 1m or 3m. 2) Non-foldable e-bikes without the...
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Ticket Alert: Chelsea History Festival 2025 Programme Announced Get booking for 80+ talks and tours this September.
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Their Majesties: Meet Croydon's Queer Royalty Long may this LGBTQ+ club night reign over us.
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The Hundred: The What, When And Where Of 2025's Cricket League Plenty happening at the Oval and Lord's.
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Samuel Pepys Day: Four Walking Tours Trace Footsteps Of London's Most Famous Diarist Put it in your diary!
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diamond geezer
Footpath 47 - all change I've long loved Footpath 47 at Barking Riverside for its estuarine bleakness, a half mile of...
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I've long loved Footpath 47 at Barking Riverside for its estuarine bleakness, a half mile of undeveloped Thames foreshore with open access to the river. I've also long urged you to visit before a wall of flats encroaches and the river's edge is tidied up to incorporate a...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 28 July-3 August 2025 Things to do for a fiver or less.
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Why You Should Go To... Hastings: Things To Do In The East Sussex Town According to someone who grew up there.
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Best Of Londonist: 28 July-3 August 2025 Catch up on what you missed this week.
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Totally Thames 2025: London's Month-Long Festival Of All Things Riverine A marathon along the Thames and a gig in a pumping station.
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Londonist
NBA Basketball Returns To London In 2026 - As Memphis Grizzlies Take On Orlando Magic O2 to host regular-season clash.
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diamond geezer
Fleeting August is Local History Month on diamond geezer, or has been on 14 previous occasions. Themes have...
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August is Local History Month on diamond geezer, or has been on 14 previous occasions. Themes have included my immediate neighbourhood, Metro-land, the Lea Valley, the New River, the perimeter of Tower Hamlets, London borough tops and the 51½°N line of latitude. But perhaps the...
Londonist
The Soho Sculpture Celebrating The Arrival Of Asylum Seekers A memorial to Huguenot refugees.
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diamond geezer
Pond Square 45 45 Squared 27) POND SQUARE, N6 Borough of Camden, 90m×90m×90m The thing about Pond Square is it...
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45 45 Squared 27) POND SQUARE, N6 Borough of Camden, 90m×90m×90m The thing about Pond Square is it doesn't have a pond and it's more of a triangle. We're on the northern edge of Camden off Highgate High Street, shielded behind Oxfam and the pink-fronted cake shop if you choose...
Londonist
The Great River Race 2025: The London Marathon... But On The Thames Passing beneath 28 bridges.
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Free And Cheap Things To Do In London This Week: 4-10 August 2025 Things to do for a fiver or less.
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Take A Free Water Bike Ride In Stratford This Thursday A lovely way to admire the East Bank.
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Explore The 'Train Of The Future' At King's Cross Windows invite you to glimpse 50 years ahead.
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When Pigs That Could Spell, Read And Count Were All The Rage Clever swine.
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Where To Find Eduardo Paolozzi's Sculptures In London They're scattered across the city.
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Competition: Win A Free Weekend BMW Car Rental With SIXT To Celebrate The Oasis Tour Drive around London in a Bimmer, courtesy of SIXT.
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A 'Hogarthian Rave' Is Going Down In Trafalgar Square Next Weekend Odds bodkins!
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Dazzling Yellow PYO Sunflower Farms And Fields Near London: Summer 2025 And it was all yellow.
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Open House Festival 2025: Which Buildings Are Open? Which Need Booking? First details of this year's architecture fest.
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Things To Do In London In The Summer Holidays 2025 Family-friendly shows, exhibitions and events for all ages.
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diamond geezer
Fleeting - Hampstead Heath Fleeting HAMPSTEAD HEATH The Fleet starts at the highest point in inner London which is the top...
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Fleeting HAMPSTEAD HEATH The Fleet starts at the highest point in inner London which is the top of Hampstead Heath. It starts here because the clay hills are capped with sandy soil - specifically the Bagshot Formation and the Claygate Member - thus groundwater emerges from...
Londonist
Art Deco Hospital In West London To Become Apartments Former Ravenscourt Park Hospital granted planning permission.
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The Sidney Street Mural: Digging Into The Details Whitechapel's recent wall painting.
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Greenwich Planetarium To Close For More Than Two Years The Royal Observatory begins its major upgrade.
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Banksy's endangered animals On 5th August 2024 London woke to the news that Banksy had painted a goat on a wall in Kew. Over the...
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On 5th August 2024 London woke to the news that Banksy had painted a goat on a wall in Kew. Over the next eight days an entire menagerie emerged across the capital, and it filled the August silly season gap brilliantly. [original bloggage] Two of the animals vanished almost...
Londonist
Things To Do In London This Weekend: 9-10 August 2025 Fringe shows, guided walks and a taco festival.
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Things To Do In London Over The August 2025 Bank Holiday Weekend The best events in London, from festivals to Carnival.
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You Might Soon Be Able To Climb Brentford's Italianate Tower Again Crowdfunder launched to restore stand-pipe tower.
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Sip Your Way Around The World At This Huge Wine Festival The Laithwaites Wine Festival returns this autumn.
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 26-27 July 2025 A Saxon camp reenactment, Japanese ballet and a jerk cookout.
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London's Museum Lates: Top Evening Events In The Capital Late night events at London's museums and galleries.
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55+ Summery Things To Do In London This Month: August 2025 Carnival! Afternoon Tea Week! A lovely long bank holiday weekend!
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London Podcast Festival: Big Names On Line-Up For 10th Anniversary Inc. Dan Snow and No Such Thing.
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22 Events Worth Leaving London For This August Where to escape the summer heat of the city.
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What Lies Behind The Egyptian Facade Of The Old Carlton Cinema On Essex Road? You can now go on tours of the stunning picturehouse.
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Major Shake-Up To DLR Timetable Ahead Of New Trains Later This Year Inc. no Beckton to Canning Town/Stratford International services.
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Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 21-27 July 2025 Things to do for a fiver or less.
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Visit A Museum Of Vintage TVs, And A Moated Manor House: Heritage Open Days 2025 September = Xmas for London lovers.
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That Time Jayne Mansfield Opened The Chiswick Flyover Strange bedfellows indeed.
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North London's Poignant Prisoners-of-War Memorial London's first holocaust memorial.
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Do Make Me Laugh: A-List Comedians On Bill For Greenwich Comedy Festival Bridget Christie, Sara Pascoe and Nina Conti on starry line-up.
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The Human League Did '28 Days Later' 14 Years Earlier The video to Life on Your Own looks very familiar.
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8 Lovely Lakeside Walks Near London Water way to have a good time.
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Things To Do In Sevenoaks Spend a day there... just don't go looking for seven oak trees.
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Best Of Londonist: 14-20 July 2025 The best articles from the past week.
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Streatham Hill's A23 Set For Major Overhaul New crossings, cycle lanes, public spaces and more.
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Canada Water Is London's Next Hotspot: Here's Why A new town square, and London's first new high street for 100 years.
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Fergie Finally Finds The Correct London Bridge - Two Decades After Blundering Music Video Water under the bridge?
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diamond geezer
Hyperlocal signage news Hyperlocal Signage News Delays are expected to continue until October. It's probably related...
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Hyperlocal Signage News Delays are expected to continue until October. It's probably related to the aforementioned sewer repairs. But it has a misplaced apostrophe. I wish someone would take it away.
Londonist
Where To See Jane Austen's Works Live On Stage This Autumn London theatres celebrate 250th anniversary of the author's birth.
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Banksy Artwork Goes On Display At London Transport Museum Rat on clock was discovered in 2019.
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What's The Commonest Baby Name In London? 2024 Stats Announced Find out the commonest names in your borough.
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Would You Like To See More White Storks In London? They Could Be Making A Comeback Plans to rewild the leggy birds.
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Our flying has been quite slow lately because of the Covid-19 situation. I have, however, recently done several maintenance and test flights from our home airstrip, which as you can see, is about half underwater from the high levels of Lake Victoria. In fact, this is better than...
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Heading North, Way Back When... As promised, I'm continuing from my previous post about way back when...  After I graduated from...
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As promised, I'm continuing from my previous post about way back when...  After I graduated from University and flight school, we briefly moved to Oregon as we prepared for future, cross-cultural work/ministry. That fall I had the opportunity to go on a short vision trip to a...
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over a year ago
Here's a shot of the little village where we lived for several years. It was nestled on the banks of the Koyukuk River, just above the Arctic Circle, not too far South of Gates of the Arctic National Park. There were no roads to the village. You could only get there by airplane...
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When you’re exploring a new direction in your career, you are bound to experience confusion. It is a particularly painful, vulnerable, emotion. You may experience an emotional instinct to reach out and fall back into the familiar. All of a sudden, the old, familiar, well-trodden...
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Wow, it's been nothing but crickets chirping here on my blog for quite a while, but I'm still here! Those long periods of silence on my blog are indicative of how super busy it's been here. The summer was a blur, and it hasn't slowed down since.
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Here's some shots from South Sudan from the archives. These first three shots were taken just a few months ago, when I flew a Caravan load of medicines up to a remote health clinic in South Sudan. This is the only clinic that offers actual medicine and medical treatment in that...
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