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The Best BVI Hotels for Couples, Families, and Groups
3 months ago
diamond geezer
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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Enjoy an Intimate Cruise for Seamless Peak Seasonal Travel
3 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
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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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...
Spoon & Tamago
This is the Time of Year Bamboo Shoots Grow, Sometimes Wreaking Havoc a triptych by Toyokuni Utagawa depicting an excursion to gather bamboo shoots (early 1800s)...
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a triptych by Toyokuni Utagawa depicting an excursion to gather bamboo shoots (early 1800s) According to Japan’s ancient calendar of 72 microseasons, right now is microseason 21: the time of year when “Bamboo Shoots Sprout.” Known as takenoko in Japan, these voracious plants have...
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7 Must-Visit Lakes and Rivers in Appalachia
3 months ago
diamond geezer
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...
Cheese and Biscuits
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...
diamond geezer
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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West Virginia Summer Road Trip Guide
4 months ago
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...
diamond geezer
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...
Herbert Lui
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...
diamond geezer
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...
Herbert Lui
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...
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Why Disney Is the Best Alaska Cruise for Families
4 months ago
diamond geezer
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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Herbert Lui
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...
diamond geezer
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...
Spoon & Tamago
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...
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...
diamond geezer
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...
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...
diamond geezer
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...
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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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...
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....
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Places to Eat in Detroit, per Chef Javier Bardauil
4 months ago
diamond geezer
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...
Cheese and Biscuits
Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Great Milton I'm sure the Manoir (as I will call it for this post) can impress whatever the weather, but when the...
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I'm sure the Manoir (as I will call it for this post) can impress whatever the weather, but when the early summer sun is shining, and punters are welcomed into the gardens for their aperitifs and/or digestifs, the place is surely at its best. When you've got gardens like these,...
Herbert Lui
Your own project You should always have at least one project, or a performance, that you can complete with no...
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You should always have at least one project, or a performance, that you can complete with no meetings, no bosses, and no external accountability. Just you doing something for yourself, where you don’t need to explain yourself at all, or need to make money doing. If it resonates...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in April 2025 30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in April 2025 1) There are no current plans to shorten...
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30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in April 2025 1) There are no current plans to shorten route SL7 to allow for more stops, including Feltham (which is bypassed by the longest gap between stops on a TfL bus route). 2) There are a total of 1928 ULEZ signs. 3)...
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Rapper Ty Farris on Detroit’s Best Food and Music Spots
4 months ago
Herbert Lui
Two quotes about fans and enthusiasm “It’s not what you know. It’s who you know,” the cliché goes. (Not one of the quotes.)  If you’re...
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“It’s not what you know. It’s who you know,” the cliché goes. (Not one of the quotes.)  If you’re doing creative work—visual art, writing, music, entrepreneurship, programming, design, amongst the many other forms of expression—it’s entirely about who you know and who knows you. ...
diamond geezer
Unblogged April 30 unblogged things I did in April Tue 1: I still had no broadband at the start of the month, so my...
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30 unblogged things I did in April Tue 1: I still had no broadband at the start of the month, so my original plan for an April Fool's Day post had to go unimagined. Thankfully I'd already knocked up my monthly FoI round-up before the connection died on Saturday, so a fictional...
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Explore Sonoma’s French-Style Wineries and Eats
4 months ago
Herbert Lui
Making the money vs. collecting it Chris Rock asked a young comic what he did that day. “Nothing,” the young comic said. “But I’m going...
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Chris Rock asked a young comic what he did that day. “Nothing,” the young comic said. “But I’m going to do a set tonight.”  “You make money during the day. You collect it at night,” Chris responded. “During the day is where the money is made.” There’s a writing lesson here: While...
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How to get to Stansted Airport Need to get from London to Stansted Airport? A new player has entered the market and it's very...
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Need to get from London to Stansted Airport? A new player has entered the market and it's very green. Flibco, a Luxembourg-based company taking its first steps in the UK. They operate to airports in Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Spain and 15 other European countries, with the...
Spoon & Tamago
Kodansha Launches ‘Manga Manners’ to Educate Visitors on Japanese Etiquette Kodansha, one of Japan’s leading manga publishers, has launched an innovative campaign titled “MANGA...
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Kodansha, one of Japan’s leading manga publishers, has launched an innovative campaign titled “MANGA MANNERS” to educate visitors about Japanese etiquette through beloved manga characters. Following the success of a similar initiative at Narita Airport in 2024, this new campaign...
diamond geezer
Chipstead One Stop Beyond: Chipstead In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London...
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One Stop Beyond: Chipstead In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Chipstead, one stop beyond Wooodmansterne on the Tattenham Corner line. For positioning purposes it lies southwest of...
Spoon & Tamago
Goldwin Set to Open Expansive Nature Park in Toyama in 2027 Goldwin, the Japanese outdoor apparel company, has unveiled plans for an ambitious new project: the...
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Goldwin, the Japanese outdoor apparel company, has unveiled plans for an ambitious new project: the Play Earth Park Naturing Forest. Set to open in the summer of 2027, this expansive nature-themed facility will be located in Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture, the birthplace of...
diamond geezer
Myddelton House bluebells In late April the seasons move on from pink to blue, from blossom to bells. These then are the...
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In late April the seasons move on from pink to blue, from blossom to bells. These then are the weekends for a bluebell stroll, a rare treat before the flowers fade and summer greens overwhelm all. Myddelton House Gardens in Enfield, so when I found myself nearby yesterday I...
Herbert Lui
Cash covers things up Money makes it easy for people to lie to themselves, and to other people. None of the entrepreneurs...
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Money makes it easy for people to lie to themselves, and to other people. None of the entrepreneurs who started Theranos, Nikola, Fast, Juicero, and WeWork would have gotten very far with what they were doing if they didn’t raise cash from investors. Cash can cover up all sorts...
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London's escalatoriest stations London's escalatoriest stations an FoI request last week which revealed all. We learnt that 89...
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London's escalatoriest stations an FoI request last week which revealed all. We learnt that 89 stations maintained by London Underground have escalators, and we learned how many there are at each. Here's the Top 10. 1) BANK/MONUMENT (35 escalators) Also a lot of them are...
Herbert Lui
Memory, reliability, trust, and confidence People need time to learn. You and I are constantly in the role of a teacher, and in the role of a...
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People need time to learn. You and I are constantly in the role of a teacher, and in the role of a student. A teacher might go over a set of facts, an example, or a standard operating process once. That isn’t enough. Knowledge transfer happens over time, with application and...
diamond geezer
A crossword, by George ACROSS             DOWN
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Herbert Lui
Talking myself away from the fear of being seen Some people who have a lot to offer the internet feel too much doubt to write and publish it. Ashley...
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Some people who have a lot to offer the internet feel too much doubt to write and publish it. Ashley Willis wrote a great post about this. Even though I publish here every day, I identify with this group of people. I’ve written for over 1,000 days now. Sometimes, for me, it feels...
diamond geezer
Wallington Square 45 45 Squared 14) WALLINGTON SQUARE, SM6 Borough of Sutton, 130m Wallington, a town halfway between...
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45 45 Squared 14) WALLINGTON SQUARE, SM6 Borough of Sutton, 130m Wallington, a town halfway between Sutton and Croydon which once had its own town hall. Today's square lies just across the road, bang opposite David Weir's gold postbox, and has changed a fair bit over the years....
Herbert Lui
A new way of thinking One way to think about writing is to offer a new way of thinking about a subject.  You’re inviting...
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One way to think about writing is to offer a new way of thinking about a subject.  You’re inviting someone over to your window to see the same topic, from your perspective. You’ve told yourself new stories in order to do what you need to do, and sharing these stories might help...