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Cheese and Biscuits
The Sun Inn, Felmersham If it's true that some of the country's most exciting and dynamic country gastropubs are the product...
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If it's true that some of the country's most exciting and dynamic country gastropubs are the product of their surroundings - the lush farmlands and rivers of Bowland that supply the Parker's Arms, for example, the or the orchards, woodlands and fields of wild game that provide...
Herbert Lui
To minimize overthinking, set and adhere to a time constraint Doechii made her mixtape, Alligator Bites Never Heal, in a month. She says, “If I sit with art for...
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Doechii made her mixtape, Alligator Bites Never Heal, in a month. She says, “If I sit with art for too long, I start to overthink. Then you start over editing. Suddenly you can find yourself with a completely different picture. That’s why I set a hard time limit. I told myself:...
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Route 414 RIP London's next dead bus 414: Putney Bridge to Marble Arch Location: southwest London, inner Length of...
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London's next dead bus 414: Putney Bridge to Marble Arch Location: southwest London, inner Length of journey: 5 miles, 35 minutes 347 and 118 have already been extinguished and at the end of this week it's time for the 414 to join them at the big terminus in the sky. It does...
Herbert Lui
Leaders trust people, not AI, to be accountable You trust a person to deliver on a promise because they’re incentivized to. If somebody doesn’t do...
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You trust a person to deliver on a promise because they’re incentivized to. If somebody doesn’t do their job, they risk losing their income. If they lose their income, they will feel pain. The incentive creates accountability. AI doesn’t feel this pain (yet?). While they’re...
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Archived LT staff magazines TfL maintains a sizeable archive of historical documentation within its Corporate Archives, a...
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TfL maintains a sizeable archive of historical documentation within its Corporate Archives, a grouping responsible for safeguarding the corporate memory of Transport for London and its predecessor companies. A small but substantial proportion of this archive has been uploaded to...
Spoon & Tamago
Furisode Snowboarder Sumire Morino Creates Urushi Snowboarding Gear for Graduating Thesis Hailing from rural Aomori in northern Japan, Sumire Morino grew up skiing and snowboarding. She is...
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Hailing from rural Aomori in northern Japan, Sumire Morino grew up skiing and snowboarding. She is currently in art school studying traditional Japanese crafts. And so when Morino turned twenty, 2 years ago, she celebrated coming-of-age-day the only way she knew how: hitting the...
Herbert Lui
Free lunches Early in my life, I learned the motto, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” The implied lesson...
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Early in my life, I learned the motto, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” The implied lesson is to be careful around somebody offering you something for free—because there’s usually a hidden cost. They must have something to gain from it, and that’s why they’re giving it to...
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Greenwich Park Geotrail A Nice Walk: Greenwich Park Geotrail (3 miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk,...
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A Nice Walk: Greenwich Park Geotrail (3 miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, easily accessible, dry underfoot, intermittently up and down, World Heritage Site, spans both hemispheres, occasional telescopes, geology-focused,...
Herbert Lui
If you’re embarrassed by your early work, that means you did it right Anybody who does anything worth doing knows how difficult it is to get through the early work. ...
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Anybody who does anything worth doing knows how difficult it is to get through the early work.  While you have great taste, your skills aren’t at the level you need to match it yet—so you make work that falls short of your vision. It feels mildly embarrassing at the time, but as...
Cheese and Biscuits
Koyal, Surbiton I rarely make any journey without the promise of a nice meal. This applies to short breaks,...
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I rarely make any journey without the promise of a nice meal. This applies to short breaks, long-haul holidays and day trips alike - I have no interest in beaches, ski slopes, cruise ships or campsites, and although I'm very partial to a long walk in the countryside when the...
diamond geezer
200 Valentine's Day ideas ❤️ 200 Valentine's Day ideas Toblerone in box with appropriate slogan, round the world cruise,...
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❤️ 200 Valentine's Day ideas Toblerone in box with appropriate slogan, round the world cruise, eggy soldiers for breakfast, pack of ribbed condoms, romantic message spelt out in plastic letters stuck to fridge, blue Slush Puppie, evening in pub that's not showing Sky Sports,...
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Virginia Beach Travel Tips From Fishing Pro Jim Root
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Herbert Lui
You won’t think your way out of overthinking Overthinking—making and updating plans, gathering information, talking to people—is only useful for...
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Overthinking—making and updating plans, gathering information, talking to people—is only useful for protecting you from the pain of reality and the hard work it takes to learn.  It is not useful if you actually want to achieve your goal. What is useful is doing. Because you’ve...
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N15 N16 N17 walkabout Yesterday I took BestMate for a five mile walk across N16, N15 and N17 because he'd never explored...
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Yesterday I took BestMate for a five mile walk across N16, N15 and N17 because he'd never explored the Stamford Hill/Tottenham hinterland before. The route's not important, nor am I suggesting you do the same, merely pointing out that a good walk across the suburbs often throws...
Herbert Lui
Who you are vs. how you appear I recently came across The Luddite Club co-founder Logan Lane’s speech at MoMA R&D Salon 48...
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I recently came across The Luddite Club co-founder Logan Lane’s speech at MoMA R&D Salon 48 entitled, “No More Likes” (via Alex Vadukul). Her closing message really resonated with me: There’s a certain vulnerability unique to younger generations, having grown up digital natives....
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Let's ride all the tube stock There are seven distinct rolling stocks on the London Underground, ranging from fairly new to...
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There are seven distinct rolling stocks on the London Underground, ranging from fairly new to creakingly old. My challenge today is to ride all seven of them as quickly as possible. For extra challenge, can I do it and return to where I started, and for extra challenge, can I...
Herbert Lui
When you make a new option, you make the world better Drake is, by far, the best-selling artist in hip-hop and rap in the past decade. But there’s plenty...
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Drake is, by far, the best-selling artist in hip-hop and rap in the past decade. But there’s plenty of space for everyone else. The world is better with other people’s art—Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Tyler, the Creator.  The best part is all of those artists lean into being...
Cheese and Biscuits
Lita, Marylebone The food at Lita is very nice. I'm saying that up front because I worry that the list of things I...
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The food at Lita is very nice. I'm saying that up front because I worry that the list of things I didn't like about the place threatens to overwhelm the main message which should be that, despite everything, the food is very nice. And maybe if you went to Lita yourself, and you...
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Cygnet Square / Shakespeare Square 45 45 Squared 6) CYGNET SQUARE, SE2 Borough of Bexley, 75m×60m Tavy Bridge, a broad concrete walkway...
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45 45 Squared 6) CYGNET SQUARE, SE2 Borough of Bexley, 75m×60m Tavy Bridge, a broad concrete walkway leading from acres of concrete housing to the banks of Southmere lake past an elevated parade of shops boasting a butchers and a VG supermarket. Initially it looked fabulously...
Herbert Lui
Practice being bored When was the last time you were the only person in the room not using your phone? You’re not as busy...
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When was the last time you were the only person in the room not using your phone? You’re not as busy as you think. If you feel busy, it’s because you’re running away from feeling bored. While boredom feels really bad at first, it comes with a lot of benefits. For starters, it...
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O purple train O purple train (a poem on the occasion of the Elizabeth line's 1000th day) O purple train,...
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O purple train (a poem on the occasion of the Elizabeth line's 1000th day) O purple train, Boris's toadying tribute, No service between Paddington and Heathrow/Reading due to late finish of engineering works, London Underground will accept tickets, no service between...
Herbert Lui
Three quotes on routine living Living a heavily structured life, always by the rules, also drains it of vitality. “Consistency is...
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Living a heavily structured life, always by the rules, also drains it of vitality. “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead,” Aldous Huxley writes.  That’s part of the drawbacks of relying too heavily on habits; the...
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Chatty Cabins Over the years I've blogged about numerous contrived campaigns to encourage usage of the Dangleway,...
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Over the years I've blogged about numerous contrived campaigns to encourage usage of the Dangleway, including the Valentine's Experience, The Snowman and the Snowdog, Sky High Dining, the Lady Penelope Afternoon Tea, the Teddy Workshop and the Spooky Scavenger Hunt. Now it's...
Herbert Lui
Skateboarding as an infinite game For over 2,000 years, people survived without skateboarding. That changed sometime in the late...
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For over 2,000 years, people survived without skateboarding. That changed sometime in the late 1940s—perhaps the early 1950s—when a group of surfers decided to attach wheels onto their wooden boards.  Since then, skateboarding has become a way of life. People risk life and limb...
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Sadler's Wells East The cultural line-up on the East Bank continues to expand. UAL opened their College of Fashion...
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The cultural line-up on the East Bank continues to expand. UAL opened their College of Fashion in September 2023, bringing uniquely-dressed students to the flanks of the Olympic Park in great numbers. Now this week Sadler's Wells East has opened its doors, a brand new...
Herbert Lui
Document the moment A few days ago, I tried explaining why blogging was great precisely because it reached a smaller...
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A few days ago, I tried explaining why blogging was great precisely because it reached a smaller audience than social media.  The smallest audience is one—and that’s you.  Skateboarders bring a video camera to document the moment. They’ve done this since way before social media,...
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We Can Be Arsed To Print That It Seems You know what TfL's We Can't Be Arsed To Print That Any More department has started printing...
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You know what TfL's We Can't Be Arsed To Print That Any More department has started printing again? They started omitting them recently on station posters, instead exhorting passengers to scan a QR code and use the TfL website instead. They also suggested using the TfL Go app...
Herbert Lui
Golden Generation Growing up, I didn’t know many people who did creative work. While I was very enthusiastic about...
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Growing up, I didn’t know many people who did creative work. While I was very enthusiastic about writing and art, the possibility that a person was paid to make that work happen didn’t even cross my mind—let alone the fact that a person like me could do it. But even if I knew,...
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Accursed passports Yesterday was the accursed day when I renewed my passport. Accursed because it's not expired but I...
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Yesterday was the accursed day when I renewed my passport. Accursed because it's not expired but I can't use it. It used to be the case that they gave you a couple of extra months so my current passport officially still has five weeks to go. I remember thinking when I got it...
Herbert Lui
You vs. the parasite I did bookkeeping for my first year of business. One year was enough for me. It was boring and very...
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I did bookkeeping for my first year of business. One year was enough for me. It was boring and very spreadsheet–heavy, and I knew I never wanted to do it again. So I did what I thought savvy entrepreneurs called “delegating.” I hired a bookkeeping and accounting firm to do it for...
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London Wetland Centre I'm a firm believer that if you wait long enough a lot of expensive places can eventually be visited...
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I'm a firm believer that if you wait long enough a lot of expensive places can eventually be visited for free. So it is with the London Wetland Centre, indeed all WWT reserves, which are offering free entry this week to celebrate World Wetlands Day. I last visited in 2006 when...
Herbert Lui
To know vs. to do The team at Basecamp recently did a six-week sprint to improve the product’s onboarding flow. They...
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The team at Basecamp recently did a six-week sprint to improve the product’s onboarding flow. They did a bunch of stuff and shipped it. The result was a 30% increase in conversion rate.  “What happened?!” you might ask them. “How? What’s the best practice?”  They don’t know. They...
Cheese and Biscuits
Holy Carrot, Notting Hill I don't know about you, but the concept of a 'vegetarian restaurant' brings to mind a certain set of...
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I don't know about you, but the concept of a 'vegetarian restaurant' brings to mind a certain set of expectations, not all of them good. I suppose it's because traditionally, vegetarian food has been, at best, just 'normal' restaurant food with the meat either taken out, or...
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Central Square 45 45 Squared 5) CENTRAL SQUARE, NW11 Borough of Barnet, 180m×100m Hampstead Garden Suburb, one of...
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45 45 Squared 5) CENTRAL SQUARE, NW11 Borough of Barnet, 180m×100m Hampstead Garden Suburb, one of London's finest suburbs, which isn't actually in Hampstead. Head north to Golders Green and a tad north more, stopping just before you hit the A1. Here are 250 acres of much coveted...
Herbert Lui
“Never do nothing” It was earlier in his life, perhaps when he worked in finance, that Dave Spitz picked up a belief: ...
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It was earlier in his life, perhaps when he worked in finance, that Dave Spitz picked up a belief:  “If you do everything on your to-do list, you’re succeeding. If you don’t, you’re failing.” Dave quit finance and eventually started California Strength, a training facility for...
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SimplyFresh E3 Hyperlocal update: New supermarket comes to E3 SimplyFresh, specifically to Bromley-by-Bow. Which...
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Hyperlocal update: New supermarket comes to E3 SimplyFresh, specifically to Bromley-by-Bow. Which is extraordinary. dual carriageway and think "this is a bit bleak", and the adjacent streets wouldn't have changed your mind. But today a fringe of highrise flats is gradually...
Herbert Lui
One chance Dan Sullivan is a coach for entrepreneurs. He asks every prospective client a question, “If we were...
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Dan Sullivan is a coach for entrepreneurs. He asks every prospective client a question, “If we were having this discussion three years from today, and you were looking back over those three years, what has to have happened in your life, both personally and professionally, for you...
Spoon & Tamago
Contemporary Nihonga Images of Hamsters Created by Otama-shimai all images by Otama-shimai | used with permission The Japanese artist who goes by the name...
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all images by Otama-shimai | used with permission The Japanese artist who goes by the name Otama-shimai creates Nihonga-style images almost exclusively of hamsters. Nihonga is a Japanese style of painting coined in the mid-1800s to differentiate it from its Western counterpart....
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Year of the Snake Head to Chinatown or Trafalgar Square today and you can celebrate Chinese New Year with dancing,...
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Head to Chinatown or Trafalgar Square today and you can celebrate Chinese New Year with dancing, culture and cuisine courtesy of the London Chinatown Chinese Association and the Mayor of London. That's because the new moon on 29th January triggered the Year of the Snake (蛇), a...
Herbert Lui
What’s the point? “What’s the point in planning, if it could all end at any time?” Dustin Gorton survived the...
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“What’s the point in planning, if it could all end at any time?” Dustin Gorton survived the Columbine massacre at age 18. He learned how fleeting life can be that day. A blog attributes a powerful reflection to him, penned when he turned 36. It reads, “I came away with the...
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BL1 It's time to extend the Superloop, on this occasion with a rail replacement bus. Welcome to the...
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It's time to extend the Superloop, on this occasion with a rail replacement bus. Welcome to the Bakerloop, an express route shadowing the unbuilt Bakerloo line extension. brown double deckers between Waterloo and Lewisham, essentially only stopping at places with a Bakerloo...
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Kamon Reinvented: Food-Inspired Family Crests by So Terada Japanese family crests, or kamon, are visual symbols that have represented family lineage and...
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Japanese family crests, or kamon, are visual symbols that have represented family lineage and identity sometimes for centuries. While they are often associated with tradition and cultural heritage, their meanings, usage, and significance can vary widely. Some kamon hold profound...
Herbert Lui
Blogging for smaller audiences and deeper connections Making good work requires making mistakes. It’s never a straight path to the final work. If a lot of...
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Making good work requires making mistakes. It’s never a straight path to the final work. If a lot of people see your creative work all the time, then it’ll be more difficult for you to make imperfect work.  You won’t have space to tinker and experiment so much. You won’t even...
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Unblogged January 31 unblogged things I did in January Wed 1: I spent New Year at home for a change watching the...
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31 unblogged things I did in January Wed 1: I spent New Year at home for a change watching the cheesy fireworks on TV. I can confirm that Big Ben bonged 15 seconds late on my television, such is digital delay, so millions of people celebrated the arrival of 2025 belatedly. Thu...
Herbert Lui
Three stories about emotional reactions 1. Anthony de Mello writes in Awareness: Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what...
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1. Anthony de Mello writes in Awareness: Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what he is suffering from. The doctor says, “Very well, I’ve understood your symptoms. Do you know what I will do? I will prescribe a medicine for your neighbor!” The patient replies,...
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Route 118 RIP London's next dead bus 118: Morden to Brixton Location: south London Length of journey: 9 miles, 55...
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London's next dead bus 118: Morden to Brixton Location: south London Length of journey: 9 miles, 55 minutes 118. The 118 runs from Morden to Brixton via Mitcham and Streatham and has been following a similar-ish route for decades. The 45 by contrast has been repeatedly...
Herbert Lui
Chipping away I used to drop everything to focus on a single project at a time. I would try to do all the tasks as...
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I used to drop everything to focus on a single project at a time. I would try to do all the tasks as soon as possible, in the hopes of getting it done and out of the way so I could relax.  For example, if I had an administrative project, I told myself I’d just […]
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We Can't Be Arsed To Print That Any More You know what TfL's We Can't Be Arsed To Print That Any More department is getting rid of...
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You know what TfL's We Can't Be Arsed To Print That Any More department is getting rid of now? Previously the timetable poster at Mile End station would have included details of the first and last trains from the station, information which can be very important if you're...
Herbert Lui
Good prose The lyrics from a good song will put your feelings into words better than you could have. That’s...
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The lyrics from a good song will put your feelings into words better than you could have. That’s really the songwriter’s only job. Similarly, the prose from a blog post, article, or book should put your feelings into words better than you could have as well. A good piece of prose...
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Mortgramit Square 45 45 Squared 4) MORTGRAMIT SQUARE, SE18 Borough of Greenwich, 130m Though much of central...
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45 45 Squared 4) MORTGRAMIT SQUARE, SE18 Borough of Greenwich, 130m Though much of central Woolwich has been redeveloped, a lot of the west end of the town centre remains relatively unloved. The far end of Powis Street is particularly desolate, including an outdoor car park, a...